Hundreds of people were invited via the Internet to taste genetically modified rice at restaurants in 23 cities across China on Sunday in a move to further promote GM foods to the general public.
High quality, modern production and food safety are China's top agricultural development priorities this year and achieving them could be as simple as creating a brand, according to some agribusiness giants.
Premier Li Keqiang said Monday that China would balance efforts to stabilize economic growth and boost structural reforms in 2015, as downward pressure on growth still remains.
As China recovers from the shadow of Shanghai's deadly New Year Eve stampede, a series of large-scale events have been canceled recently, provoking questions of the proper response to such tragedy.
At least 36 people died in a fatal stampede during New Year celebrations late Wednesday in Shanghai, according to local authorities as of Thursday night.
Blue notes beside the vegetable in a branch of Yonghui Supermarket in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, show farm produce free of pesticide residue.
Finding the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370 and helping solve the mystery of its disappearance is the greatest challenge of Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB), the government agency said in its annual report release on Monday.
Four "fast fashion" brands were named in China's top 5 worst in terms of safety among imported garments, quality supervision officials said.
While Chinese foodies find the hit documentary "A Bite of China" a good guide to hunting up local delicacies, CEOs of multinational food companies see immense market potential.
China's bus system is dogged with safety issues as lackluster efforts in the supervision and control of flammable and combustible materials ignite public concern.
China's work safety watchdog on Thursday vowed to close over 1,700 accident-prone small coal mines in a bid to enhance safety and reduce casualties.
Chinese lawmakers Thursday hailed harsher punishment for offenders in the Food Safety Law's latest draft revision but the provisions to be more meticulous.
Tohoku Electric Power Co. on Tuesday applied to Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to assess the safety of its No. 1 reactor at the utility's Higashidori nuclear power facility in Aomori Prefecture in the northeast of Japan.
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), operator of the troubled Monju sodium-cooled fast reactor located in Fukui Prefecture in the east of Japan, said Thursday it will endeavor to raise its equipment inspection protocols and overall safety management procedures in a bid to reverse a ban preventing the facility from operating.
China plans to shut down over 2,000 small-scale coal mines by 2015 in an effort to eliminate outdated capacity and improve work safety, according to the State Administration of Work Safety.
New Zealand legislators unanimously passed a new food safety law on Tuesday, paving the way for a faster response to crises such as the false botulism scare that saw a global recall of dairy products last year.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye made an official apology once again for one of the country's deadliest maritime disaster on Monday, vowing a reform in officialdom and safety response system.
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