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.
Posts Tagged ‘China’
17 Feb
High Tech Misery in China
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
Massive fire consumes luxury hotel in Beijing
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 [...]
