Chinese authorities moved quickly and with force to quash a pro-democracy ‘Jasmine Revolution’, believed to have been inspired by the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.
More police than usual were scrambled to line the streets today, and there were a number of activists detained after online sites had organised staged protests in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities.
Citizens were urged to shout: ‘We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness’ – a slogan that highlights common complaints among ordinary Chinese.
Many activists said they didn’t know who was behind the campaign and weren’t sure what to make of the call to protest, which was first posted on U.S.-based, Chinese-language website Boxun.com.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Saturday, March 6, 2010
23 PEOPLE IN CHINA ARE ON TRIAL ACCUSED OF BABY TRAFFICKING
China has put 23 people on trial on suspicion of involvement in the sale of nearly 50 babies.
State media on Friday described it as one of the country's biggest-ever child trafficking cases.
Prosecutors accused ring members of buying baby boys for up to $3300. dollars in the southwest province of Yunnan and selling them for double that amount in the north of the country, the China Daily reported.
They allegedly also bought baby girls for less that that and sold them for about $ 3,000dollars. There was a two day trial in the city of Wuhan which concluded with no verdict delivered.
Most of them didn't realize they were breaking the law, said a court official.Under Chinese law, child traffickers face punishment ranging from five years in jail to the death penalty.
Prosecutors said the two ringleaders - a brother and sister pair - had trafficked 49 babies between March 2005 and July 2009 with the help of friends and relatives. Police shut down the ring in mid - 2009.
Chinese babies, especially boys, born to people in poor and remote areas are sometimes sold to more wealthy families. Many sociologists blame the nations "one child" family planning policy for fuelling the crime.
Under the policy, aimed at controlling the world's largest population of 1.3 billion, people who live in urban areas are generally allowed one child, while rural families can have two if the first is a girl.
This has put a premium on baby boys, while baby girls are often sold as couples try for a male heir.
State media on Friday described it as one of the country's biggest-ever child trafficking cases.
Prosecutors accused ring members of buying baby boys for up to $3300. dollars in the southwest province of Yunnan and selling them for double that amount in the north of the country, the China Daily reported.
They allegedly also bought baby girls for less that that and sold them for about $ 3,000dollars. There was a two day trial in the city of Wuhan which concluded with no verdict delivered.
Most of them didn't realize they were breaking the law, said a court official.Under Chinese law, child traffickers face punishment ranging from five years in jail to the death penalty.
Prosecutors said the two ringleaders - a brother and sister pair - had trafficked 49 babies between March 2005 and July 2009 with the help of friends and relatives. Police shut down the ring in mid - 2009.
Chinese babies, especially boys, born to people in poor and remote areas are sometimes sold to more wealthy families. Many sociologists blame the nations "one child" family planning policy for fuelling the crime.
Under the policy, aimed at controlling the world's largest population of 1.3 billion, people who live in urban areas are generally allowed one child, while rural families can have two if the first is a girl.
This has put a premium on baby boys, while baby girls are often sold as couples try for a male heir.
Monday, February 15, 2010
JAPAN'S WORLD WAR II ' S UNIT 731 REVIEWED AGAIN
TOKYO: More than 60 years after the end of World War II, the name Unit 731 still has the power to generate shock, revulsion and denial in Japan.
The Imperial Japanese Army's notorious medical research team carried out secret human experiments regarded as some of the worst war crimes in history.
It subjected more than 10,000 people a year to grotesque torture in the name of science. Russian soldiers and downed American aircrews were among the victims.
Experiments included hanging people upside down until they choked, burying them alive and injecting air into their veins. Some victims were subject to vivisection.
The bones of up to 100 people were discovered in a mass grave in 1989 during construction work. They bore the marks of saws and some of the skulls had drill holes and portions of the bone cut out. But the issue is so controversial in Japan that the remains have since been stored in a repository.
Acting on information from a former nurse, the authorities have said they will re-examine the bones to determine whether they were part of the experiments carried out by Unit 731 in the last days of the war.
Toyo Ishii came forward to say that during the weeks after Japan's surrender in August 1945, she and her colleagues at an army hospital were ordered to bury corpses, bones and body parts before the Allies arrived.
She claimed that the hospital had three mortuaries where bodies with numbered tags around their necks were stored in a pool of formalin to preserve them before they were dissected. Organs and other body parts were preserved in glass jars.
The sites that Mrs Ishii pinpointed as mass graves will now be excavated. The area is an apartment complex in the Shinjuku district of the city which is scheduled for redevelopment.
An investigation after the remains were found in 1989 concluded they were mostly non-Japanese Asians and had probably been used in ''medical education'' or taken to the medical school from battlefields overseas for analysis. .
Unit 731 was mostly active in China, where it carried out biological, bacteriological and chemical weapons tests on civilians and prisoners of war.
The Imperial Japanese Army's notorious medical research team carried out secret human experiments regarded as some of the worst war crimes in history.
It subjected more than 10,000 people a year to grotesque torture in the name of science. Russian soldiers and downed American aircrews were among the victims.
Experiments included hanging people upside down until they choked, burying them alive and injecting air into their veins. Some victims were subject to vivisection.
The bones of up to 100 people were discovered in a mass grave in 1989 during construction work. They bore the marks of saws and some of the skulls had drill holes and portions of the bone cut out. But the issue is so controversial in Japan that the remains have since been stored in a repository.
Acting on information from a former nurse, the authorities have said they will re-examine the bones to determine whether they were part of the experiments carried out by Unit 731 in the last days of the war.
Toyo Ishii came forward to say that during the weeks after Japan's surrender in August 1945, she and her colleagues at an army hospital were ordered to bury corpses, bones and body parts before the Allies arrived.
She claimed that the hospital had three mortuaries where bodies with numbered tags around their necks were stored in a pool of formalin to preserve them before they were dissected. Organs and other body parts were preserved in glass jars.
The sites that Mrs Ishii pinpointed as mass graves will now be excavated. The area is an apartment complex in the Shinjuku district of the city which is scheduled for redevelopment.
An investigation after the remains were found in 1989 concluded they were mostly non-Japanese Asians and had probably been used in ''medical education'' or taken to the medical school from battlefields overseas for analysis. .
Unit 731 was mostly active in China, where it carried out biological, bacteriological and chemical weapons tests on civilians and prisoners of war.
Monday, October 12, 2009
CHINA TO END HEPATITIS B TESTS
According to Xinhua, the state news agency in Beijing, Chinese health officials will abolish mandatory testing for hepatitis B during physical exams given to college students, factory workers, and government employees.
The new rules, mean that people found to be carrying the hepatitis B virus will not be automatically barred from jobs and classrooms. It is estimated that 120 million people in China are thought to be infected. It is not uncommon in China for hepatitis B carriers to be barred from medical school, teaching positions or jobs in the food production industry.
The new rules, mean that people found to be carrying the hepatitis B virus will not be automatically barred from jobs and classrooms. It is estimated that 120 million people in China are thought to be infected. It is not uncommon in China for hepatitis B carriers to be barred from medical school, teaching positions or jobs in the food production industry.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
A CHINESE TOWN IS QUARANTINED AFTER A DEADLY PLAGUE OUTBREAK
The town is in a Tibetan area in north-west China. It was sealed off after two of its residents died from pneumonic plague, according to reports from the local government and state media.
Ziketan town in Qinghai province was put under quarantine when lab tests showed it had been struck by the highly virulent disease, as reported by the Qinghai health bureau.
A 32-year-old herdsman had died from the plaque, while 11 others had been diagnosed with it. Ziketan, which is located in the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, had enough supplies to get by on its own for the time being, the health bureau stated, giving no indication of when the quarantine would be lifted.
The health bureau urged people who had visited Ziketan on or after July 16Th to seek immediate help if they developed coughing or fever. Pneumonic plague spreads through the air, making it easier to contract than bubonic plague, which requires that a person is bitten by an infected flea.
It is also more lethal, with a fatality rate of up to 100 percent if left untreated, compared with 60 per cent for bubonic plaque.
Ziketan town in Qinghai province was put under quarantine when lab tests showed it had been struck by the highly virulent disease, as reported by the Qinghai health bureau.
A 32-year-old herdsman had died from the plaque, while 11 others had been diagnosed with it. Ziketan, which is located in the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, had enough supplies to get by on its own for the time being, the health bureau stated, giving no indication of when the quarantine would be lifted.
The health bureau urged people who had visited Ziketan on or after July 16Th to seek immediate help if they developed coughing or fever. Pneumonic plague spreads through the air, making it easier to contract than bubonic plague, which requires that a person is bitten by an infected flea.
It is also more lethal, with a fatality rate of up to 100 percent if left untreated, compared with 60 per cent for bubonic plaque.
Friday, January 2, 2009
JAPAN IS IMPORTING LARGE AMOUNTS OF HAIR FROM CHINA
The natural hair is used to make hair extensions. There is a supply shortage and a surge in the cost. It takes the Chinese women about 3 years to grow hair to the floor. Drivers go to small villages, cut hair and give women small amounts of money.
After collected hair is bleached, dyed black or brown at processing plants and then exported to Japan. Japan imported 178 tons of dyed hair from China in 2007. In 2002 it was only 26 tons. It takes 50 grams of hair to make an extension. The hair imported in 2007 was enough to make3.56 million extensions.
The price for extensions in Japan is $100.00.The price of hair from China has gone up 50% from a year ago.It is a seller's market. Hair grows about 2 inches a month and 65 inch long extensions are the minimum.After 3 months use the hair deteriorates and has to be disposed of.
After collected hair is bleached, dyed black or brown at processing plants and then exported to Japan. Japan imported 178 tons of dyed hair from China in 2007. In 2002 it was only 26 tons. It takes 50 grams of hair to make an extension. The hair imported in 2007 was enough to make3.56 million extensions.
The price for extensions in Japan is $100.00.The price of hair from China has gone up 50% from a year ago.It is a seller's market. Hair grows about 2 inches a month and 65 inch long extensions are the minimum.After 3 months use the hair deteriorates and has to be disposed of.
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