A number of Chinese companies are visiting Cork this week at the invitation of Ringaskiddy-headquartered Zenith Technologies.

CHINA executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog yesterday for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash, the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it is serious about tackling its product safety crisis.

China today executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol of the country’s wide-ranging problems on product safety.