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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The largest illegal human kidneys sale ring busted in Beijing
Up to date, this case is the largest organized crime of selling human organs.
It is checked out that 51 kidneys were sold, the amount is RMB10 million (approximately US$1.6 million).
The gang arranged complete process, such as, finding the seller and buyer, renting the hospitals, operating surgeries in villas.
They buy a human kidney from the poor seller for RMB25,000 (approximately US$4,000) or less, and re-sell it for RMB220,000 (approximately US$35,000) or more.
They usually have 20 poor guys available living and waiting for buyers. Usually, they have 3 to 6 operations to harvest human kidneys for sale.
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Coach, Burberry and Gucci are the most favorite brands in Shanghai
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
A chemical plant exploed in Hebei Province, more than 50 people dead or injured
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Smuggled dinosaur egg nest fossils recovered back to China
These fossils were unearthed in China in 1984, and smuggled abroad.
The 22 egg fossils are of Oviraptorosauria, including 19 eggs with embryonic dinosaur embryos.
In 2003, an American collector in the United States bought it at a public auction for US$420,000.
Now it is returned back to China. It is the first time for China to take back smuggled fossils through diplomatic channels.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Taxi drivers in Suzhou got portable emergency toilets
The portable emergency toilets could help drivers settle their difficult distress when public washroom is not available.
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Blind dating in Tianjin
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Toxic glue used in a shoe factory at Wong Kau village
Later, they were diagnosed as "dichloroethane" poisoning.
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Shanghai's minimum wage to be RMB1,450 per month
The minimum wage will be increased from RMB11 per hour to RMB12.5 per hour.
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Beijing's per capita GDP is US$12,447 now
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Hundreds of US pilots could soon be hired by 12 different Chinese airlines
Recruiters from 12 different Chinese airlines arrived in Henderson, looking to hire away American pilots with the promise of bolstering their bank accounts. China's aviation industry is booming, they're adding new flights and new planes on a regular basis. However, they say Chinese pilots aren't trained to fly the new planes, but American pilots have years of experience. That's why they say the United States is the perfect place to find the talent they're looking for.
American pilots were told they could immediately make 35% more than their current salaries, or about $200,000 a year, if they switched to a Chinese airline.
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Wasted chemical barrels turned to be woks
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
To marry a Vietnamese bride? RMB50,000 only
The ads were posted by marriage agents. In total, the cost is only RMB50,000 (approximately US$8,000).
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920,000 people participated in car plate ballot
Got a number plate for the car? Not easy. In Beijing, you have to participate a lottery kind ballot to try your luck to get it. If not, you have to wait for next year.
This time, 920,000 people are registered for the ballot. It means there is only 1 out of 45 would get the number plate for a car.
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Children were poisoned by lead emission
The government identified that it is due to the lead emissions from Shanghai Johnson Controls International Battery Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Johnson Controls belongs to the global lead-acid battery giant Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI.NYSE).
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Shanghai college girl wants to be hired as lover by nouveaux riches
In one of her photos, she dispayed a poster, reading: I am 165cm tall, 95 pounds (47 kg) in weight, and 38D of breast cup.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
18 men were kidnapped and forced to be slave labors
In Haerbin, at 3pm of Feb. 17, a taxi driver reported to the police that, he saw three men armed with sticks and harp knives kidnapped people right outside a bank. The police rushed to the scene to make the investigation.
Finally, police checked out a ganster ring.
The ganster are involved in kidnapping, detaining and forcing victims to do labor jobs without pay.
Up to now, 8 suspects are caught, 18 victims are rescued.
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A migrant worker in Dongguan found his kidney removed when sleeping
He came to Dongguan looking for a job days ago.
Instead, he found himself waking up and lying in the bed of a hotel. Beside him, there was RMB20,000 in cash (approximately US$3,500).
Feeling uncomfortable, he took a taxi and hurried to the hospital for health check. By CT sanning, it shows that, his left kidney was cut and removed.
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Hair cut day
This time, the traditional saying is it is the date of "rise of the dragon", good for hair-cut to get the fortune.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
It is the common scenario that, passengers are more willing to clog into the bus.
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Traditional Hakka wedding
A traditional Hakka wedding is held, exactly as of 300 years ago.
The Wu family clan moved from Hubei and Hunan province to Sichuan province 300 years ago.
They now preserved ancestral halls, tombs, old customs and some Hakka language.
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One man stabbed to death after two drunken cut each other
A man was stabbed and dead on the street.
The picture shows the fallen dead still with the machete holding in his hand.
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Shanghai court dismissed the appeal from Proview
The court refused Proview Shenzhen's request that to stop the sale of iPad in Shanghai.The court replied that, Apple Shanghai is now selling "iPad" Tablet PC from the Apple company in U.S., the "iPad trademark" ownership disputes between Apple Shanghai and Proview Shenzhen is now under legal process in Guangdong Higher Court hearing; before the Higher Court to make the final judgment, the trademark ownership right is still in an indeterminate state.
Therefore, it is still questionable whether Apple Shanghai's sales of "iPad" Tablet PC is legally an infringement.
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Fog caused contamination
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Villager is back-packing natural gas by their way
Villager near Bingzhou city in Shandong province are happily bagging the natural gas for home use.
Here in the field are oil rigging devices. Villagers nearby came for loots, they loosened valves to fill natural gas into their bags by self-service.
Whithin four minutes, the bag (6-meter long, 1- meter in diameter) can be filled full.
One bag of gas is good for kitchen use withstanding up to five days per household.
Risky and explosive.
Here in the field are oil rigging devices. Villagers nearby came for loots, they loosened valves to fill natural gas into their bags by self-service.
Whithin four minutes, the bag (6-meter long, 1- meter in diameter) can be filled full.
One bag of gas is good for kitchen use withstanding up to five days per household.
Risky and explosive.
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Sex dolls manufactured here in Ningbo
Three years ago, they started production of plastic inflatable sex dolls.
Their production capacity is 50,000 dolls a year, 15% of which are exported to Japan, Korea and Turkey.
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Official contacts between Nanjing and Nagoya in Japan suspended
Kawamura Takashi, Mayor of Nagoya, Japan, in the morning of Feb. 20th, met the visiting delegation of Nanjing Municipal Government, and publicly denied the authenticity of "Nanjing Massacre" event.
Hereby, Liu Zhiwei, the Nanjing delegation's lead, did not protest, just responded that, "Nanjing people love peace, we need to learn the history, not to perpetuate hatred." After the meeting the two sides exchanged gifts.
Once returned back to China, Nanjing's delegation members are under furious critics as "shameless traitors", they are regretful not to protest right in the meeting with Japanese.
Subsequently, back in Nanjing, they denounced the meeting and suspended the friendship with Nogoya.
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A must-visit mini-restaurant in Chengdu
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Drug dealers in Hubei Province are on high momentum
2,080 of the convicted are sentenced to more than five years imprisonment, life imprisonment or death penalty.
Especially, drug-related crimes in 2011 had risen by 63% compared with that of 2007.
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1 out of 6 people in Tianjin suffering from mental disorders
Depression and mania are the most common mental disorders.
However, only less than 10% of patients went to the mental health clinic for diagnosis or treatment.
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9 out of 10 air monitoring sites in Guangzhou are alarming "pollution"
Guangdong has suffered mild haze and mixed mist.
It is adviced that morning exercise in open air is not good for health.
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Professor lost his job and got heavy penalty due to having a second child
Without a job, his savings are confiscated (RMB240,000, approximately US$40,000) by government as of penalty, the professor is now collecting donations on-line for the survival of his family.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Guess what? Sun tan their quilts!!
So funny, watch out your head when passing by.
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A 13-year-old boy picking up bottles, to raise the money for his own surgery fee
In Chongqing, this boy is picking up bottles day and night. He is to raise money for the surgery of his own fingers. He has one finger extra in his hand, the sixth finger needs to be cut off.
His Mom and Dad died already, his grandfather also passed away recently.
He has to save enough money for his own surgery by picking up as many bottles as possible.
The surgery costs RMB8,000 (approximately US$1,200), it means he has to pick more than 160,000 bottles.
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China's mobile broadband connection speed is one of the two slowest in the world
As of 2010, mobile internet speed in Japan or Korea is 28 times faster than that of China's.
However, charges to China's mobile phone users are among the highest in the world.
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Life expectancy is 82.5 years in Shanghai, ranking the highest in China
As information from Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, in 2011, life expectancy is 82.51 years among the city residence. The infant mortality rate is 5.70 ‰
Maternal mortality rate is 7.36 per 100,000.
These three indicators of public health is ranked as the highest in China, aslo maintained at the level of developed countries.
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Car fell from viaduct under construction, Fuzhou
At 9am on February 18th, a viaduct was under constrution in front of the Fuzhou South Railway Station. Due to that there is no roadblock signs, a car "break in" straightly and entered the viaduct, then fell down at the open point.
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Sex Culture Festival opened in Zhengzhou
On stage, the performance of SM, caused a public controversy.
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"Lady Zen" in Metro Line #9, Shanghai
Ms.Wang, a Shanghainese girl, photographed the a purple-dressed lady picking-pocket a yellow-dressed lady (upper 3 shots are taken by Wang). This leads the purple-dressed lady to be under arrest.
Around 6pm February 18th, Ms.Wang at Yishan Road Station of Metro Line #9, found that two passengers are acting suspiciously.
Ms.Wang immediately came up with her iPad2 and started vedio recording at the two.
Wang recalls that, the two did not look at other's face, but kept staring at other's backpack or pockets. They were very uncertain.
When the train arrived and doors opened, the purple-dressed woman picked a cell phone from the pocket of a yellow-dressed women with a child.
So, Ms.Wang grabbed the purple-dressed woman. And the purple-dressed quickly put the cell phone back to the pocket of the yellow-dressed woman.
At this point, Ms.Wang called the police while firmly grasp the purple-dressed woman.
Ms.Wang was heavily pushed aground and her iPad fell to the ground.
All these were also recorded by CCTV at the site (lower 2 shots are taken by CCTV). Finally police rushed to Ms.Wang and the suspect.
Subsequently, Ms.Wang uploaded the video on-line, hoping that victims would come forward to identify the suspect.
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Minimum price for a number plate of car: RMB55,400!
Shanghai's private car quota auction for this month is held today. In total, 8,000 license plates are put on auction, unchanged from last month.
23,391 bidders are participated in the auction this month.
The lowest successful bidding price for a license plates is RMB55,400 (apprximately US$9,000), the average price is of RMB55,632.
It is the record high. Many Shanghainese car owners exclaimed that "the number plate in Shanghai has become a crazy expensive metal ".
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Floor with high levels of formaldehyde
On February 16th, A&W's wooden floor products are revealed to have excessive formaldehyde. They are used by major real-estate developers in Beijing and Shanghai for housing construction.
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Female college students "occupied" the male toilets
On the morning of February 19th, several female volunteers in a Park launched the action of the "occupying" toilet.
Several female volunteers remained and "occupied" in men's room.
The purpose is that, let females waiting in long line to have the priority to use the men's room.
The college girls appeals to the Government to increase lady's washroom in public toilets.
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Eating 40 wild turtles, four Chinese in Zimbabwe have been arrested
Zimbabwe's official media, The Herald, yesterday quoted the words of an animal rights organization said, 4 Chinese had eated more than 40 wild turtles. On Feb. 16th, Zimbabwe police raided a village in southeast of the country.
They found 13 live wild turtles and 40 turtle remains, these four Chinese man are arrested subsequently.
They are now under investigation, may be deported later.
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In the Three Gorges reservoir area, near Chongqing at Yangtze River, the public in droves doing their free laundry
One after another, they brought with dirty clothes, dirty beddings to Yangtze River to make cleaning and washing.
Hundreds of people in groups made the laundry in the water, it became an incidental landscape.
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95% of sperm donors in Hubei Province are university students
They got subsidy of RMB3,000 (apprximately US$550) when donation is completed. Sperm donors are required for at least 22 years old, must have a college education, more than 1.65m tall, no color blindness and genetic or other diseases.
After strict inspection, a subsidy of RMB200 for each sperm donation. When they complete the whole process, a subsidy of RMB3,000 will be granted.
Dr. Jiang Xianglong, who is running the Sperm Bank in China, said that, after one year of test-run, mote than 1,100 volunteers registered, of which 95 percent are college students. Only 20% of them passed the final test.
Dr. Jiang also calculated: infertility is 8% -10% in China, the population in Hubei Province is 60 million, of which 1/6 are in the reproductive period. By the most conservative estimate, there needs at least 2,500 sperm donors for screening in order to meet the demand in Hubei Province only.
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