Recycled Used Chopsticks Brought From Guess Where

"BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of Chinese food and product safety scares. Counterfeit, shoddy and dangerous products are...

Blitz on illegal parking

"A MAJOR crackdown on illegal parking is being launched next month as part of the biggest shake-up of parking enforcement in the county for years. A team of parking wardens has been recruited to patrol the streets of  Corby, Wellingborough and Rushden in...

Welcome to Smoke-on-Trent

"Smokers are lighting up in Stoke-on-Trent despite the ban because of a bureaucratic blunder. Officials are powerless to stop smokers, who are now flocking to the city's 400 pubs and bars, after council workers failed to get enforcement powers in time for the July 1 ban. The...

Nigeria Polls: Stay at home!

"Nigeria Labour Congress-led labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), yesterday re-affirmed its resolve to enforce the stay-at-home protest against the out-come of the last April polls, saying its allies across the country have been fully mobilised to ensure maximum...

Washington Complains to WTO over China Piracy

Somehow I don't think the Chinese government will cave to Washington's threats, and I'm not sure how they could comply to the US's satisfaction, knowing what we know about how piracy works (it's not really state-sponsored!), and how hard it is to stop. Exacerbating this is...

RFID Shield: Stop Reading My Bra

As more and more companies express interest in RFID (Radio Frequency ID tags), more and more people are expressing concern over privacy issues. One such person had taken action..."A group of Dutch researchers at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, led by PhD student Melanie...