Chinese government still hedges on avian flu
BEIJING - The scene was reminiscent of early 2003, just before the world learned about SARS: A small room in central Beijing, filled with journalists skeptically asking World Health Organization...
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Bank launders money: washing, drying currency
GALLE, Sri Lanka -- It was another hot, sunny morning yesterday at the surviving Commercial Bank branch in town, a good time for leaving checks and deposit slips out to...
Understanding nature’s power
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka - Not long after losing 24 relatives, including his wife and three of his four children, Mohammad Sumanthra Jainudeen stood over the freshly made grave of his...
Need for careful rebuilding also applies to young souls
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka - On the last day of their lives, the friends and playmates of 11-year-old Kirishanthini were at an orphanage overlooking a peaceful lagoon near the sea. When...
At disaster sites, leaders try to help while numb with grief
HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka - For hours that first day, the Rev. Indika Anthony loaded up his pickup truck with dead bodies. Some were piled like cargo in the back. But,...
China revives intrusive practices for SARS
GAOLING, China -- After Cui Xingsheng welcomes visitors into his traditional medicine clinic built of brick, mud and tile, he makes sure, the best way he knows how, that they...
China dinner delicacies succumb to SARS scare
GUANGZHOU, China - Deng Deliu couldn't believe it when the government came for his pheasants. It had been a lazy morning at the animal markets, with only a few shoppers...
Amid SARS epidemic, China panics over pets
BEIJING -- In a grim reflection of this city's determination to subdue the SARS epidemic, authorities in protective suits are killing dogs, in some cases by beating them, while their...
SARS highlights discord in China
BEIJING - Ignoring government pleas to stay, Wei Jisheng fled Beijing on a sold-out train last week, jamming himself in among hundreds of other migrant workers packed like so many...
SARS outbreak exposing flaws in China regime
BEIJING - For all the challenges the Chinese Communist Party has faced since opening the nation to the world a quarter-century ago, only the emergence of a strange new disease...