More than 400 children were hospitalised in China after their classrooms were refurbished with paint containing dangerous levels of a cancer-causing substance, state media said.
The children, from Shalingzhen School in Liaoning province, started complaining about nausea and dizziness early last week, Xinhua news agency reported.
More than 400 were hospitalised, and nearly a week later dozens remained under observation.

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The semi-government-owned Top China Travel (TCT), China’s leading B2B inbound travel wholesaler, will make its Middle East exhibition debut at ATM, to seize a share of outbound tourism from the region which it forecasts will rise by 20% this year.
Middle East tourists are highly sought after worldwide due to their higher spending capacity, larger group size as well as average length of stay. We expect tourism from the region to China to really take off as people are increasingly becoming aware of the various attractions the country has to offer.
TCT is planning to launch luxury travel packages at ATM 2007 and is confident of a positive response. "We believe regional visitors will enjoy China’s rich and diverse experiences," added Cheng.

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China International Wine Culture Festival & Trade Fair which is organized by China National Food Industry Association and China Tourism Hotel Association and so on was held on 28th, April.

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Ninety-nine large and medium-sized steel plants in China reported a year-on-year 282 percent rise in net profits in the first quarter of this year, according to the China Iron and Steel Association.
Luo Bingsheng, deputy chief of the association, said combined profits of these steel plants jumped to 34.5 billion yuan (4.5 billion U.S. dollars) in the first three months, boosted by the steel price increases.
The composite price index of steel products stood at 109.8 by end-March, 4.42 percent higher than the beginning of this year, he said.

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Pneumoconiosis, a work-related lung disease common in the mining and cement industries, is the top occupational killer in China, according to the latest government statistics.
Since the 1950s, China has reported a cumulative total of 677,000 occupational disease cases, more than 90 percent of which were pneumoconiosis cases, said Su Zhi, an official with the Ministry of Health, here on Sunday.
Excluding Shaanxi and Tibet, the year 2006 saw 11,000 new occupational disease cases, with pneumoconiosis accounting for 76 percent, Su said.
"The proportion of pneumoconiosis cases was 1.44 percentage points higher than in 2005 and the latency period of the disease was shorter," he said.
Miners and cement industry workers develop pneumoconiosis by breathing in coal and cement dust. The disease, which has a relatively long latency, may take several decades to manifest itself, but it is deadly, said Li Tao, an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to Su, 23 percent of pneumoconiosis cases had latent periods of less than 10 years.He said the coal mining, non-ferrous metal exploitation and construction industries were the three most dangerous industries, causing 41 percent, 13 percent and 6.5 percent of total work-related illnesses last year.
He also noted that 621 pneumoconiosis cases reported last year were found to involve laborers under the age of 18.

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