Blog Tag - WHO
Beijing will spend RMB 18.2 billion (USD 2.6 billion) on pollution alleviation in 2017, although the municipal government has only set its PM2.5 air...
As the first anniversary of Beijing's indoor tobacco ban, the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for the success of the Beijing program to be...
In the year since China's Ministry of Finance announced an increase in tobacco taxes, tobacco prices throughout the country are up and consumption is...
Zika, a disease caused by the Zika virus, is a virus that is transmitted by infected Aedes mosquito. There have not been any reported cases of the...
The World Health Organization's (WHO) office in Beijing announced Tuesday its support of the Beijing Municipal Government's decision to issue its...
One million people per year in China die of tobacco-related illnesses, a number that could be if the country adopted a nationwide smoke-free law...
The World Health Organization (WHO), the people who helped bring you Beijing's new smoking ban, has confirmed the first case of Middle East...
In Beijing we love to whinge when the air gets bad -- and we all collectively freak when the AQI goes up over a couple hundred.
Well the World Health...
As we seemed a little bit skeptical about the recently announced citywide indoor smoking ban (skeptical about it working out, let us reiterate, not...
The Yulin Festival, held on June 21, celebrating the summer solstice, has been held annually for years by local residents by eating dog meat and...
Before you roll your eyes at yet another H7N9 post, consider this: The numbers may be just a drop in the bucket compared to the population at large...