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China's soaring meat consumption spells trouble.
SIMONE ERASMUS-LAM
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Outdated kilns produce deadly emissions in Bangladesh, where bad air causes 15,000 premature deaths yearly in the capital alone.
IRIN
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In a feat unparalleled in history, China has lifted an entire generation out of abject poverty. But in doing so, she may have also doomed the next generation. theasiamag.com looks at the rising incidence of cancer among Chinese children.
LEE HAN SHIH
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In the last month of gestation, the mother’s body pumps at least 300 quarts of blood each day through the umbilical cord to the baby inside the placenta.
LEE HAN SHIH
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This year the Chinese will puff away 2 trillion (2,000,000,000,000) cigarettes, an average of four sticks a day for each of the 1.3 billion people in the country.
LEE HAN SHIH
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