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SHANDONG, East China — It’s a peaceful midsummer afternoon in Jinan’s mountainous countryside. The trees are dappled with warm sunshine, cicadas chirp, and a light breeze rustles through the ...

I’ve eaten some unusual things on the road. There were salted Mopani worms in Botswana at the hotel buffet (black and squishy); sun-dried nsenene grasshoppers in Uganda (yellow and juicy); whole ...

In China, where food hygiene controversies are ongoing, a new scandal dubbed the "cockroach bread" incident has emerged. On October 26, local media outlets such as Hongxing News reported that Consumer ...

One million cockroaches have reportedly escaped from a farm in China. The insects, which were being bred for use in traditional medicine, escaped from a facility in Dafeng in the eastern province of ...