Videos have revealed the terrifying moment a major earthquake hit Alaska on November 30, 2018. The center of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake was just north of Anchorage, a city of some 300,000 people. The quake hit at 8:29 a.m. local time while it was still dark in the snow-covered state. Alaska has only six hours ...
There are some 32,000 people on waiting lists for an organ transplant in South Korea, but the vast majority of them will die before an organ becomes available. On average, a sick person needing a kidney transplant in South Korea has to typically wait five years. But if they go to an organ transplant center ...
There’s a good reason why an Australian academic described a high profile Chinese surgeon as a serial killer. That surgeon is Huang Jiefu, the architect of China’s industrial-scale organ harvesting industry that researchers say sources most of its organs through killing prisoners of conscience. Maria A. Fiatarone Singh, a professor of medicine at the University of ...
Two high-profile U.S. lawmakers have called for the next Winter Olympics, scheduled to be held in China, to be reassigned due to ongoing human rights abuses being committed by the Chinese communist government, especially the large-scale ongoing crackdown on the Uyghur ethnic minority. Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris Smith — who lead the bipartisan ...
After working at a Chinese university in China for nine years, an American academic had some parting things to say about aspects of Chinese society. Economics professor Christopher Balding left China mid-way through this year after his teaching contract at the HSBC Business School of Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School was not renewed. “I leave ...
Disappeared human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been held by state security somewhere in China for over a year. Gao Zhisheng, 54, is believed to have been taken from Shaanxi to Beijing by police mid-August last year. It was the eighth time the twice Nobel Peace Prize nominee has been disappeared by the state apparatus ...
A group of U.S. lawmakers have called for a tough global response to the ongoing human rights crisis in China’s far west Xinjiang region. Led by Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris Smith, the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission asked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to sanction Chinese officials and entities ...
The Real Bodies Exhibition has again attracted controversy, this time in the UK where a doctor has questioned the source of the plastinated corpses put on show. Dr. David Nicholl, a consultant neurologist at a Birmingham hospital, told The Guardian (in an article now only online via the South China Morning Post) that the plastinated ...
From Bangkok to Washington, D.C., events were held this week to commemorate nearly two decades of persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have undergone in China. Most of these simple acts of remembrance held around July 20 typically receive little media attention, much like the persecution itself — a phenomenon echoing sentiments put forward by a ...
June has been a big month for U.S.-China relations. Firstly, President Donald Trump announced tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports. This was done, the POTUS said, to encourage China to change its unfair practices in respect to technology and innovation. “They also serve as an initial step toward bringing balance to our trade relationship with ...
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