China pork safe for all, not only Olympic athletes
BEIJING - The capital's largest pork provider on Monday displayed to locals and the world alike that its meat was safe for all, not only Olympic athletes.

Pork plays a part in inflation
CHINA - In China, the wholesale price of pork, the country’s staple meat, has gone back up to US$2.5 per kilogram.

Jail for PRRS vaccine fakers
BEIJING - Three peole who produced and sold fake vaccine for blue-ear disease (PRRS), have been jailed.

Prices rise while ministry takes measures to ensure supplies
BEIJING - China's wholesale price of pork leapt back up to 18.69 yuan (US$2.5) per kilogram on 5 November, a 5.4 percent rise on October prices. Although, prices in large and medium-sized cities was still 7.5 percent lower than the record level set in...

ILDEX China
CHINA - In round figures half the world's pigs are in China. It's a massive market, one which many overseas companies feel it's vital to be part of, although getting established there takes time and patience. ILDEX China - the International Livestock...

Vaccine success as China's PRRS infections fall
BEIJING - A domestically-developed vaccine has loosened the grip PRRS is having on China's pig industry. The number of pigs affected by blue ear disease (PRRS) in the state has dropped significantly - a direct result of the new vaccination campaign, say...

Ministry: China's pig epidemic under control
BEIJING - China has brought the blue-ear pig disease (PRRS) under control, said Gao Hongbin, vice minister of agriculture, today.

China arrests makers of fake vaccine for pig disease
BEIJING - Chinese police have arrested the producers of fake vaccines that caused an outbreak of the blue-ear pig disease in central Hubei Province, the ministry of Agriculture said on Sunday.

NDRC: China's pork price drops 11% from peak level
BEIJING - The average price of pork in Chinese shops has dropped 11 percent from its peak in August as the government invests billions of yuan to support the pig breeding industry.

Pork prices rise for the first time in 10 weeks
BEIJING - Pork prices rose once again last week after dropping for nine straight weeks, said the Ministry of Commerce, yesterday.

China: Inflation increases and the economy is overheating
CHINA - This summer China has seen a significant growth in inflation, the highest to have been registered in the last eleven years.

China Booms
CHINA - The Chinese economy continues to expand at breakneck speed, with confirmation that the biggest ever annual trade surplus is now on the cards for 2007; and there's yet another move, the 13th this year, to try and take the heat out of the boom.

Pig disease hits one more Vietnamese province
CHINA - Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) outbreaks among pigs have recently occurred in northern Hai Duong province, raising the total localities hit by the disease in Vietnam to three, local newspaper Pioneer reported Monday.

Chinese student farms pigs for inflation profits
CHINA - A student who gave up university to farm pigs has become an emblem of China’s fear that its long boom is at risk from inflation and the crisis in the international economy.

Pork prices continue to drop during holiday
CHINA - The average pork price has dropped 0.4 percent during China's National Day holiday, or the "golden week", said the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Sunday.