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August 5, 2007 (Sunday) － Issue No. 112 |
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Beijing Residents Appeal Against Olympics Forced Relocations |
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Citizen Recounts His Kidnapping by Chinese Agents |
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Communist China Control Its Toxic Exports? |
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Media Unveils New Evidence of Organ Harvesting in China The article reported on the recent restrictions imposed on organ transplants performed on foreigners by Chinese hospitals, and exposed the inside story behind these organ transplants in Mainland China, which are performed under the rule of the Communist Party....…Full Article |
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Tourist Claims to Eat Paper Stuffed Bun Just as official Chinese media were questioning the validity of stories surrounding consumer allegations of Chinese pork buns stuffed with paper, one man, while visiting Qufu City in China's Shandong Province, claims to have personally consumed such an item......…Full Article |
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BEIJING—As of July 27, in the heart of the 2008 Olympics site, residents of Datun village, Chaoyang district, Beijing, have maintained a sitting appeal in front of Beijing Huahui Real Estate for twelve consecutive days. They are urging authorities to solve their problems and to respect their property rights and compensations after they were forcibly evicted to make way for the Olympics. Yet in 12 days not one communist cadre has come out to meet with them. The appeal was triggered by the local regime's plan for a new construction of a golf course and apartments in Olympics Project. The construction has evicted nearly 1,000 families to make way. Mr Xiao from Datun village told The Epoch Times the appeal has been running for 12 consecutive days. Everyone comes to this appeal voluntarily and on average, 300 to 400 people take part in the appeal everyday. At peak times, over 700 people participated in the appeal. The local regime has sent many police vehicles and security teams to keep an eye on the appeal. On July 25 local police stations and neighborhood committees held meetings, and they were ordered to persuade people to give up their appeal. A threatening broadcast message was posted on the appeal site stating, "Hanging banners is disturbing social order and whoever refuses to give up the appeal will be arrested." Another resident surnamed Xu told The Epoch Times because of the hot weather, some residents at the appeal site suffered from heat stroke, although there was no loud protesting or conflicts. People started hanging banners on July 25, but very soon afterwards, police and security officials came to seize the banners. Insiders alleged that the land acquisition involves a conspiracy between the real estate developer and government officials. Beijing Municipal Leaders had visited the appeal site covertly a few days ago and instructed Chaoyangs' District governor to settle the appeal in three days, or otherwise he would be dismissed automatically. An appellant named Mr. Li, a retired cadre, told The Epoch Times that according to regulation with a government requisition, they should pay the villagers land compensation and relocation compensation, but the villagers have received none. Moreover, the real estate developer started the forced demolition without proper documentation. Mr. Li said, "They did not compensate us according to the official
regulation, and some of the compensation monies were embezzled by
the real estate developer; those regime officials definitely knew
that, but nobody cares and without land, we don't know what we can
do." Back In mid-April 2007, Charles Cai, an American, went to China to visit his 80-year-old mother who lived in Changsha City, Hunan Province, and was hospitalized for a serous illness. During his stay, Mr. Cai was harassed and illegally kidnapped by agents from China's state security bureau, but now he has safely returned to the United States. Charles Cai is a Falun Gong practitioner and a volunteer for New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), a New York-based TV station dedicated to air objective views about mainland China. Charles said that while he was detained the communist agents asked him many questions about NTDTV, including the International Chinese Classical Dance Competition and its sponsorship. He pointed out that since NTDTV was founded, the Chinese communist agents have never stopped trying to interfere with and disrupt it. He was kidnapped in China probably because he works for the TV station, he said. Chinese Communist Agents "Care" About NTDTV Mr. Cai recalled that the agent spoke a local dialect and started by asking him a few questions about his family, work, and health, etc. before turning to the subject they were really interested in. Mr. Cai was asked a lot of questions about Falun Gong, such as "Where do you do your practice?", "What kinds of people are doing it?", "Has your Master ever come to your practice site?", "On what occasion are you able to see your Master?", etc. Mr. Cai said that the agents were especially interested in NTDTV, quick in turning to the subject. They asked, "What departments does NTDTV have?", "Who are the people in charge in those departments?", "Who is the real boss at NTDTV?", and "How is NTDTV in Taiwan related to the one in New York?" They also asked about the dance competition, such as "Why was it held?" They kept asking who the sponsors were. They even asked about NTDTV's future plans and showed concern about truth-clarification tap-ins into China's TV programs. Mr. Cai said that among the agents involved in his kidnapping, some
have read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, an editorial
series that exposes the wicked nature of the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) and documents its atrocities in history. These agents did not
deny the facts enumerated in the Nine Commentaries. In fact, they
should be able to know that the CCP has lost the hearts and minds
of the people. Mr. Cai expressed his hope that those agents who are
assisting the CCP in doing evil deeds stop immediately, so that they
will not perish along with the CCP when heaven destroys it. The day
will come soon, said Mr. Cai. Back BEIJING—Water levels have risen to critical levels along vast Chinese rivers and floods have spread to the north while a tornado hammered 33 villages in the east and two central provinces suffered drought, media said on Thursday. More than 500 people have been killed since the summer floods started, but the disaster has failed to gain world attention because of floods in England in which three deaths have been reported. Four people died in the normally arid northwestern province of Gansu and the neighbouring frontier region of Xinjiang this week, Xinhua news agency said. Two farmers in Xinjiang's Huocheng county were swept away by flood water triggered by heavy rain that started on Tuesday. On Wednesday, a tornado swept across a 10 km (six miles) path through 33 villages in Yinshang county in the dirt-poor eastern province of Anhui. The villages were the among worst hit in weeks of serious flooding along the swollen Huai River which had displaced hundreds of thousands of residents. State television showed pictures of uprooted trees, downed electricity poles and houses without roofs by the tornado. Nearly 100,000 trees were uprooted or severed and large areas of crops were destroyed, causing economic losses of 22 million yuan ($2.9 million), the China Youth Daily said. In the southwestern province of Guizhou, at least one person died and 645,000 people were affected by rainstorms this week. Water levels of two rivers in the scenic Xiangxi area in the central province of Hunan rose to up to seven metres above danger levels after days of heavy rain, prompting dams to open flood gates, the official news agency said. More rain is forecast for large swathes of southwest and northwest China on Thursday, the National Meteorological Centre said on its Web site. Weeks of high temperatures were set to continue in the south and southeast. Temperatures in the eastern provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi could hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), the centre said. And more than 300,000 people in the central province of Jiangxi and
about half a million in neighbouring Hunan faced a shortage of drinking
water because of drought. Back Faced with the embarrassing issue of exported toothpastes containing poisonous chemicals, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has made many conflicting statements in the last few days. On July 10, AQSIQ repeatedly emphasized that Chinese toothpastes containing Diglycol are harmless and even accused the international community of slandering Chinese products in an attempt to cause trade wars. In the last two months, in Panama, then Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, United States, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and Europe, have been hit with toxic Chinese products. Since the news broke, the quality of Chinese export products has been under intense scrutiny. Many more poisoned products made in China are being exposed and taken off the market after health problems and even deaths have occurred. Loss of US$ 10 Million and a Crisis of Credibility for China's Exports Welcome to the Real World—Safety Before Profit REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, and according to experts, not only would it greatly reduce pollution, but the expected savings on medical expenses alone will reach 97 billion Euro in the next 30 years. According to a BBC report, the new regulation will affect 90 percent of the trade between China and EU, and will cause a 4 percent decrease in China's chemical manufacturing products. Dr. Xie Weiguo from Institute of Science and Technology at The University of Manchester commented on the communist regimes' reaction. "There are international standards for all industries, and there can't be a special standard for Chinese products. Today's Communist Ideology—Getting Rich is the Opiate of the Masses Mainland China's well known media Southern Weekly , published a front page article titled "China Puts A Stop on 'Organ Transplant Tourism'" on July 19, 2007. The article reported on the recent restrictions imposed on organ transplants performed on foreigners by Chinese hospitals, and exposed the inside story behind these organ transplants in Mainland China, which are performed under the rule of the Communist Party. Organ transplants skyrocketed after 1999 and hospitals reaped huge profits. The Southern Weekly mentioned that "liver transplants increased at a shocking rate: in 1999 only 24 liver transplants were performed; in 2000, the number reached 78, and in 2003, 356 cases. In 2004, 507 liver transplants were performed, breaking the previous world's record held by the University of Pittsburg Organ Transplant Center in the United States. Together with the 368 kidney transplants done in the same year, the transplant department in the Oriental Organ Transplant Center has become the largest organ transplant center in Asia. In 2005 and 2006, the figure for liver transplants alone exceeded 600 cases." In summary, the liver transplant operations of this hospital began to increase rapidly after 1999. From the period 1999 until 2006, the hospital performed at least 2,000 liver transplants. There were no figures for transplants done in 2001 and 2002. According to the Southern Weekly , "the dramatic increase in business brought huge profits to the Oriental Organ Transplant Center. Southern Weekly also unveiled the popularity of this lucrative business in China, it has become a common operation in the mainland, "There are over 600 hospitals in China and 1,700 doctors performing organ transplants. In comparison, there are only about 100 hospitals capable of performing liver organ transplants and not more than 200 able to perform kidney transplants in the United States." Noteworthy is the increased rate of China's organ transplants, which is more than triple that of the United States. Take kidney transplants as an example, from 1993 to 2002, the average annual increase in China was 14 percent, while in the United States it was only 4 percent. The Oriental Transplant Center is only the tip of the iceberg, over 1,700 doctors in about 600 hospitals in China were busy making money thru organ transplants during the past six years. Back Tourist
Claims to Eat Paper Stuffed Bun Back Just as official Chinese media were questioning the validity of stories surrounding consumer allegations of Chinese pork buns stuffed with paper, one man, while visiting Qufu City in China's Shandong Province, claims to have personally consumed such an item. Meanwhile, a man on another website confessed to making and selling these paper stuffed food products. On July 23, a university professor posted an entry on China's well-known online forum bbs.book.sina.com.cn revealing that he had eaten pork buns stuffed with paper on a sight seeing in Shandong's Qufu on July 20. "I didn't feel or smell anything strange when I was eating it," said the professor. "But afterwards I had a strange aftertaste, sort of like fiber. Later when I threw up, I could clearly tell it was paper and fiber. It felt just like it." "I am a university teacher in Shanghai," the professor recounted in his Internet posting. "Last week I took a trip to Shandong with my family. We went to Jinan City and then Taishan Mountain; the last stop was Qufu. We arrived in Qufu on the evening of July 20 and stayed in a hotel near the bus station (I don't remember the name of the hotel clearly now, it might be called Guotie Hotel or Guodao Hotel). Anyway, we arrived at the hotel by bus from Taishan Mountain. This hotel is only a five minute walk from the Confucian Temple. You turn right from the hotel and the bus station is next to it." "On the morning of July 21, my family and I went to a small restaurant across the street to have breakfast. This small restaurant boasted that served 'Authentic Nanjing Buns,' 2.5 yuan (US$.33) for a steamed buns and dumplings. The owner of this small restaurant is a woman who claims to be from Wuhu City in Zhejiang Province and has lived in northern China for 20 years. After we ate the buns, we went to the Confucian Temple. My stomach was not feeling well and I had the taste and feel of fiber in my mouth. All of a sudden I recalled the news I had read on Internet about people stuffing their buns with paper. I asked my wife how she was feeling and she said that she was also experiencing a similar feeling—there was a feeling of having something in her mouth other than pork. I felt terribly nauseous and I threw up after I drank some water. I found scraps of paper in the stuff that I just threw up," said the professor. "How horrible this is! The newspaper claimed that the paper stuffed pork buns story was false but I personally experienced it, right here in Qufu of Shandong, which is the hometown of Confucius—the greatest ancient Chinese sage. This is a place that is known as a land of courtesy and propriety for thousands of years, said the professor." Back |
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