HONG KONG: First settlement in Chinese milk case – (New York Times)

HONG KONG — Yi Kaixuan was 6 months old when he died of kidney failure on May 1 — the first Chinese child to die from drinking milk contaminated with melamine — and on Friday his parents confirmed they had accepted a cash settlement from one of the country’s largest dairy companies.
Yi Yongsheng and Jiao Hongfang, villagers from the arid northwestern province of Gansu, told Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, they had received 200,000 yuan, or $29,300, from the Sanlu Group. The settlement included an agreement that the parents would not sue the company, which recently entered bankruptcy proceedings
Six babies died and nearly 300,000 were sickened by the tainted milk, according to China’s Ministry of Health. More than 800 children remain hospitalized with kidney and urinary-tract problems.

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