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China has warned Internet users to be wary of downloading virus-infected mooncake greeting cards ahead of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival after a wave of Internet worms hit hard-drives last year.

Mooncakes, sweet pastries with a bean base, are traditionally eaten and given as gifts during the festival, also known as the Moon Festival, a celebration of plenty and togetherness which falls on Sept. 25 this year.

Electronic mooncakes, however, may be safer than the real thing in Guangdong, where only 85 percent of 80 batches of mooncake filling tested met quality standards, according to a report posted on the Web site of the provincial food safety bureau.

Despite finding excessive traces of intestinal bacteria, preservatives and high acidity levels, the authority said consumers could “rest assured” — 98.1 percent of the finished product on supermarket shelves met standards.

Yeesh! If the real stuff won’t get ya, the cyber ones will! Cyber eaters beware!!!!

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There’s something about China lately that has to make one laugh. The situation is going from really bad to laughable.

Pollution, corruption, tainted food exports, lead painted toy exports, and brutal shark finning are just a few of the serious problems China is inflicting on the world and its own people.

Now, in classic Elmer Fudd style, China has proven again that it finds even the simplest of tasks too complicated to complete without first making a spectacle of itself.

Hundreds of hydrogen balloons exploded as they were being handed out to students at a Chinese sports meeting, injuring more than 70, Xinhua news agency said.

The accident happened on Sunday when the 1,500 balloons were being distributed to students at the opening of the sports meet at the Lanzhou Electric Power School in Lanzhou, capital of the northwestern province of Gansu, Xinhua said.

Luckily the victims were not injured seriously, or so that is what they tell us! No details were given as to why the balloons exploded.

With the Olympics just around the corner, one can only imagine what China will do next to endear itself to the world!

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China is telling the world that their exported products have “limited” safety problems.

The list just keeps getting longer and longer for China’s substandard exports. First to make the news was the plastic laced pet food ingredient exported to the US. After that, the wheels just continued to keep falling off the “Made in China” wagon.

Tainted seafood, toothpaste, drugs, toys, and now tires are being recalled for safety reasons. Tires imported from China since 2002 from the Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., of Hangzhou, China could suffer tread separation.

It’s obvious the Chinese don’t give a rat’s ass about the safety of consumers who buy their products overseas, and I’m starting to wonder if the Bush Administration is in the same mindset.

These defective products shouldn’t have even made it to the shelves for consumers to buy in the first place. One death or sickness caused because of a substandard item imported from China is too many.

China needs to clean up its act fast in order to save their “Made in China” brand, and the US Government needs to step up its vigilance and testing of Chinese imports in order to protect consumers before someone is seriously hurt.

Check your tires, check your children’s new toys,if it says “Made or Imported from China” on them I would suspect it’s safety.

We all know about the Mattel safety recall in which some toys imported from China contained lead paint. Here is the list of tires imported from China that suspected to be defective. Check them, for your, and your family’s safety.

According to the filing, the Hangzhou tires at issue were sold under at least four brand names, Westlake, Compass, Telluride and YKS, and in these sizes:

* LT235/75R-15.
* LT225/75R-16.
* LT235/85R-16.
* LT245/75R-16.
* LT265/75R-16.
* LT3X10.5-15.

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Now I’ve heard everything! In the wake of Mattel Inc. issuing a recall of 1.5 million Fisher-Price toys because their paint contained lead, China is accusing us of being alarmists!

China seems to be worried about it’s reputation, and it’s “made in China” label, whereas we, the consumer are worried about ours and our children’s safety.

China’s exports are getting worse in terms of their quality and safety standards. Poison in the pet food ingredients was only the tip of the ice berg. It was soon followed by tainted seafood, then drugs and toothpaste, now its toys that are painted with lead based paint! Yes, lead paint, that we are supposed to let our children play with!

China can accuse us and call us whatever they like, it really makes no matter to me, because as long as they continue to export poison they won’t be seeing anymore of my money. If it says “Made in China”, or “Product of China”, it won’t be coming home with me. I would also urge everyone to also consider this boycott. Put your money where your mouth is. Its for our Children’s safety now!

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As China struggles with it’s image after countless news reports of tainted and poisoned food exports, it is now trying to profit from one thing they have plenty of, and that’s poo.

Yes, you heard me correctly. China’s food exports has recently been crap anyway, so now they want to market it properly, so people know exactly what they are getting. And this is just in time for the Olympics. Or rather it is because of the Olympics.

As the 2008 Olympics near, Chinese officials have come up with a grand scheme to profit from it. They have decided to make Olympic souvenirs made from poo! Not just any poo mind you, but real, authentic Panda Poo!

Researchers at a Wildlife research centre have started sculpting photo frames, book marks, fans and panda statues out of the 300 tonnes of poo that is produced annually by it’s 60 giant pandas. Holy crap, that’s a lotta poo!

So for the Olympics they have started molding the poo into statues of athletic pandas performing various Olympic sports.

Now I don’t know a lot about pandas, but one thing I do know is that they are NOT very athletic!

Now before you get on Alibaba.com and place your pre-order, there is one thing you should know. Jing Shimin, assistant to the director of the base, proudly declared that the souvenirs would be relatively odor-free.

“They don’t smell too bad because 70 percent of the dung is just remains of the bamboo that the pandas are unable to digest,” he told Xinhua news agency.

“Relatively?” Just what is he comparing the odor to?

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