18 Feb
China will investigate whether 17 Japanese tourists received illegal organ transplants, state media said Tuesday.
The China Daily newspaper reported that the Japanese patients apparently were operated on after China banned the trade in human organs in May 2007.
17 Feb
Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 15, @04:55PM
from the dawn-of-the-industrial-age dept.
theodp writes “Think you’ve got a bad job? Think again.
11 Feb
By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY
BEIJING — A nearly finished 44-story luxury hotel that was part of Beijing’s Olympic construction boom was ravaged by fire Monday, while people set off fireworks to celebrate the end of Lunar New Year festivities.
The fire was the latest in a series of calamities to befall China since the tightly choreographed [...]
10 Feb
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
02-10) 07:55 PST BEIJING, China (AP) –
The pyrotechnics that set fire to a new luxury hotel, gutting the structure and killing a firefighter, were so powerful that a special permit was needed — but it was never obtained, China’s state broadcaster said Tuesday.
China Central Television, which organized [...]
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