By Oiwan Lam There’s a public safety crisis in Changzhou, where hundreds of schoolchildren fell ill after exposure to toxic compounds. Unfortunately for the ailing kids, the public response has been largely unsympathetic, thanks in part to the affluence of the students’ families and their parents’ attempts to treat the incident like an “internal matter”. The alarm … Continue reading Hundreds of Chinese schoolchildren have been poisoned, but their affluent families aren’t winning them much sympathy