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A few weeks back, during the Beijing Olympics, I wrote an article for an Israeli finance newspaper Calcalist about the upcoming Taiwanese Kaohsiung[...]
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The Taiwan “Olympics” - Article for Israeli Calcalist Love Kaohsiung Music Festival at Sizihwan : A Night of Old Taiwanese Songs Taiwan’s street food : the “food trucks” Vote for Michael Turton as the best Taiwan politics blogger Visiting Kaohsiung : Cheng Ching LakeChina
Israel at the Beijing Olympics : What do the Chinese think of Jews? Our medallists : Taiwan’s Chen Wei-ling and Israel’s Shahar Zubari Chinese perception of Israeli media coverage of the China Olympics More Sino Phobia : China Bashing in Israeli media Sino-Phobia continued : Israeli media bias against China
The following video, which hit Digg's China tag recently, is titled "BBC hidden cam finds China selling prisoners' organs", described as :
An undercover investigation by BBC News finds that China has a flourishing trade of organs from executed prisoners. China is becoming the destination of choice for rich foreigners in need of organ transplants. One hospital said it could provide a liver for about $100,000.
China has more executions than any other country in the world. Officials told undercover reporters that executions increase prior to National holidays so many organs are available around the holidays.
The following video report feature hidden camera footage of organs being sold in China.
Reminds me of a shocking ficitonal HK movie I saw recently - "Dumplings " (As someone commented on the movie - "Not so much a horror as horrific").
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