South Korean authorities say tablets made of dead fetuses are being smuggled into the country from China. . Report by Adam Sich.[jwplayer mediaid="12454"]Tablets made of dead fetuses are being smuggled into South Korea from China
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Video Opinion: Author John Naisbitt: ‘World to be dominated by China-US connection’
China’s rampant economic growth and political influence continues raising numerous questions about the outcomes of this growth. China expert and author John Naisbitt told RT that the world is soon to be dominated by US-China relations.[jwplayer mediaid="12363"]
Big Brother News: China microblogs, Sina Weibo and Tencent QQ blocked users from posting comments
China microblogs block users from posting comments
By Staff Reporter
AFP Asian Edition
Mar 30, 2012 23:26 EDT
China’s two most popular microblogs, Sina Weibo and Tencent QQ, on Saturday blocked web users from posting comments on the sites, saying they were acting to stop the spread of rumours.
The Internet giants said the measure would remain in force until Tuesday. It came just hours after authorities said they had shut down websites they accused of spreading misinformation and made a string of arrests.
China has been strengthening its control of the Internet after being rattled by a flood of online rumours and criticisms.
Groundless rumours of a coup in Beijing began circulating on the Internet earlier in March following the dismissal of political star Bo Xilai.
“Rumours and illegal, harmful information spread via microblogs have had a negative social impact and the comments contain a large amount of harmful information,” said a message on Tencent’s website.
“From March 31, 8:00 am to April 3, 8:00 am, Weibo’s comment function will be temporarily suspended,” said Sina, which runs China’s most popular microblogging service, Sina Weibo.
Authorities early Saturday said they had shut down 16 websites for spreading rumours of “military vehicles entering Beijing and something wrong going on in Beijing,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted a spokesman for the State Internet Information Office as saying.
Six people had also been detained for “fabricating or disseminating online rumours,” the State Internet Information Office and Beijing police said, according to Xinhua.
Source: AFP Asian Edition
Big Brother News: China Bans Anonymity Among Microblog Users, Must Now Use National ID Number
China Bans Anonymity Among Microblog, Users Must Use National ID Number
New regulations in China require users to provide real names, national IDs and phone numbers. Of course this an attempt to intimidate people from speaking out. We also know that the Obama Administration in the United States seems to be pro censorship as well. It is 2012 and Big Brother is alive and well. The people need to stand up for freedoms every day or they will loose more and more of them daily. When your government treats you like a sheep you should flock together in mass and trample right over them. Who needs a power crazed Sheppard any way ?
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Death-row inmates still ‘main source of organs in China’
Death-row inmates ‘main source of organs in China’
By Staff Reporter
AFP Global Edition
Mar 07, 2012 10:03 EST
Executed prisoners were still the main source of organs used in transplant operations in China due to the lack of voluntary donations, a top health official was quoted saying on Wednesday.
China has long vowed to reduce its reliance on death-row inmates for organs, but high demand and a chronic shortage of donations meant they remained a key source, the Legal Daily quoted Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu as saying.
Huang reportedly made the remarks on the sidelines of the country’s annual parliamentary session in Beijing where about 3,000 delegates from across the country have gathered for 10 days of meetings.
China banned the trade in human organs in 2007 and two years later began rolling out a nationwide donation system, but demand for organ transplants still far exceeds supply in the country of 1.3 billion people.
About 10,000 transplants are carried out annually, but an estimated 1.3 million people are waiting for transplants, state media said previously, opening the door to the illegal sale of organs and forced donations.
The Chinese Medical Association, an official body representing doctors, said in 2007 that China would no longer transplant organs from executed prisoners except for their immediate relatives, earlier reports said.
In 2009 Huang said the rights of death-row inmates were respected and written consent from prisoners was required before their organs could be harvested, the China Daily said at the time.
But Huang admitted that executed prisoners were “definitely not a proper source for organ transplants”.
International human rights groups have long accused China of harvesting organs from executed prisoners for transplant without the consent of the prisoner or their family — charges the government has denied.
Amnesty International China researcher Sarah Schafer said Huang’s latest comments suggested “nothing much has changed”.
“We feel that this lack of progress is quite chilling,” Schafer told AFP. “There’s no way a prisoner facing execution can give meaningful consent.”
Source: AFP Global Edition
