Asia Cast for Friday 17th April
These vegetables on sale in Shanghai could be concealing a nasty surprise for anyone that eats them - dangerously high levels of pesticides. (By gabyu/Flickr)
In this bulletin…
- Dangerous pesticide cocktails used on China produce;
- yellow-shirt leader shot and wounded; and
- Maoist rebels attack India polling places.
But first, here’s our SOH focus on China
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A survey recently conducted by Greenpeace China tested vegetables sold in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and found many pesticide-ridden vegetables, some of them with what Greenpeace calls highly poisonous pesticide cocktails, reports The Epoch Times.
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