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- Beijing's heaviest rainfall in 60 years kills 10
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| Beijing's heaviest rainfall in 60 years kills 10 Posted: 21 Jul 2012 09:03 PM PDT Rainfall causing widespread chaos in the Chinese capital, stranding 80,000 people at the city's main airport The heaviest rain storm in six decades to hit the Chinese capital killed at least 10 people and caused widespread chaos, flooding streets and stranding 80,000 people at the city's main airport, state media reported on Sunday. The storm, which started on Saturday afternoon and continued late into the night, flooded major roads and sent torrents of water tumbling down steps into underpasses. In the Beijing suburb of Tongzhou, two people died in a roof collapse and another person killed was struck by lightning, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Other deaths were caused by electric shocks from downed power lines and drowning, it added, without giving an exact breakdown. More than 500 flights were cancelled at Beijing's capital international airport, the Beijing News said. However, the subway system was largely unaffected, aside from being swamped with people desperate to get home and unable to use cars, buses or taxis. The city received about 170 millimetres (6.7 inches) of rain on average, though a township in Fangshan District to Beijing's west was hit by 460mm (18.1 inches), Xinhua said. The Beijing city government said on its website it was working to get the metropolis back on its feet, but reminded people to prepare for further bad weather. "The weather forecasters say that from late July to early September this city is prone to flooding, and there could be further large-scale storms or extreme weather," it said. Many residents took to China's popular microblogging site Sina Weibo to post dramatic pictures of the storm. Some complained the city should have been prepared, especially as the government had issued a severe storm warning the day before. "It was forecast early on that Beijing would get torrential rain, so why were pumps and other facilities not prepared in time?" complained one user. The official pollution index, which had showed an unhealthy rating before the storm hit, registered "excellent" on Sunday, with the air noticeably free of its normal acrid smell. guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds 
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| China's investment in aviation infrastructure takes off Posted: 22 Jul 2012 04:36 AM PDT China will build 82 new airports and revamp 101 others during its 12th five-year plan period (2011-2015) to meet rising air travel demand, a senior official said Friday. China will have around 230 ai... |
| Heavy rain in Beijing to continue into the night Posted: 22 Jul 2012 04:28 AM PDT China's top meteorological authority said that rainstorms are expected to continue into the night in the Chinese capital. Heavy rains started thrashing the city around 10am Saturday. Precipitation in... |
| Largest rainfall in 6 decades submerges Beijing: 10 dead Posted: 22 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT The heaviest rain in 61 years in the Chinese capital Beijing has left 10 people dead as of 2 a.m. Sunday, according to a report by the China Network Television, a national web-based TV broadcaster own... |
| Chinese city draws fire over plan to bail out solar firm Posted: 22 Jul 2012 03:56 AM PDT A bailout plan created by Xinyu, a city in Jiangxi province, for LDK Solar, one of the world's largest solar wafer manufacturers, has prompted controversy over the government's credibility. The Xinyu... |
| Mt Emei wealthiest among the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:52 AM PDT Among the four sacred mountains of Chinese Buddhism, Mt Emei in Sichuan province was the first to set up a public company and is the wealthiest in terms of assets, reported the Guangzhou-based 21st Ce... |
| Nanjing's Japanese shrines listed as cultural relics protection Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:52 AM PDT Two Japanese shrines built by the Imperial Japanese army in Nanjing in 1939 were first changed into a memorial hall in honor of the fallen soldiers of the Sino-Japanese war and later became an office ... |
| Chinese big tobacco given 'green award;' public outraged Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:48 AM PDT A Chinese foundation is at the center of a public firestorm for giving a green award to a state tobacco company after it spent large sums of money on ecological preservation. Health experts say Chi... |
| Shanghai man faces heavy sentence for smuggling gun parts Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:48 AM PDT A Shanghai computer technician may face a life sentence or even the death penalty if found guilty of smuggling bullets and gun barrels from the United States, the Chinese-language news portal eastday... |
| China hits back against US and Korean solar power exporters Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:48 AM PDT China's commerce ministry has said it will launch an antidumping investigation into polysilicon products imported from the United States and South Korea from July 20. The relatively low price of p... |
| Next offshore RMB center yet to be determined Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:48 AM PDT China's offshore renminbi market in Hong Kong has become the world's largest and most efficient offshore renminbi settlement center, driven by market forces. London, Singapore, Australia and Taiw... |
| Vacations are becoming more expensive in China Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:48 AM PDT More and more theme parks in China are changing their pricing strategy, using daily tickets instead of paying by ride. Many customers are unhappy with the new measure, saying that it is a scheme to i... |
| German intelligence report highlights activity of Chinese spies Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:36 AM PDT Germany's Federal Bureau for the Protection of the Constitution on July 18 published its 2012 security report, in which Chinese spies have once again become a focus of attention. The report says ag... |
| Scales of justice: Shaanxi vendor grabs officer by the leg Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:36 AM PDT A photo posted by a reporter on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, showing a vendor in the northwest province of Shaanxi owner clutching an urban management officer tightly around the leg has ... |
| Only 2.7% of American spending goes to China: report Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:32 AM PDT News that the uniforms to be worn by the US Olympics team were outsourced to China has attracted widespread criticism back home, given the country's unemployment rate of more than 8%. But was the out... |
| China’s Communist Elders Take Backroom Intrigue Beachside Posted: 20 Jul 2012 10:00 PM PDT Party elites and their families congregate in the resort of Beidaihe to swim and dine and shape the future of the world's most populous nation. |
| French architect embroiled in fall out from murder case held under guard in China Posted: 21 Jul 2012 01:09 PM PDT A French architect who has become embroiled in the fall-out from the suspected murder of a British businessman is reportedly being 'held under guard' in China.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Chinese Media Widely Report on Dismal Organ Transplant Record Posted: 21 Jul 2012 12:40 PM PDT  A re-enactment of the communist regime in China harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners at a public rally in Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2006. (Clearwisdom.net) Before the Chinese regime's leadership change at the upcoming 18th National Party Congress, a surprising Beijing News article revealed China's organ transplant record. The report, which was widely circulated by many state-run Chinese media, indicated that 1.5 million patients are waiting for transplants every year, but in the past two years there were only 200 organ donors. The Beijing News article stated, "Between 1999 and May 2012, there were 72 successful donations in Shenzhen. Most of these occurred after the national organ donation program was launched in 2010. This is a dismal figure, especially when compared with the 1.5 million people who bet their lives on the luck of a matched organ." Unfortunately, this report does not reflect the number of prisoners who were executed for their organs nor how much this "dismal" figure improved from executed prisoners.
Although state-run Chinese media did report in March about China's intention to stop organ harvesting from prisoners, the reasoning was not based on human rights issues, but rather due to the rate of infected organs, according to a New York Times article citing Xinhua news. In March 2012, The Epoch Times published an article, citing the Legal Daily (a quasi-official Chinese newspaper), stating the Deputy Minister of Health, Huang Jiefu, admitted that the main source of organ transplants came from executed prisoners due to the shortage of organ donors. At this sensitive time when the Chinese communist authorities seek to safeguard stability before the commencement of the 18th National People's Congress, this current wide distribution of organ transplant statistics seems unusual—yet the numbers don't comport with the past admission of organ harvesting from executed prisoners. The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) released a report, which cited official numbers from China, indicating that the actual number of transplants increased dramatically since the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong in 1999. Since the persecution in 1999, the number quickly multiplied with 118 liver transplant surgeries in 1999, 254 in 2000 and 486 in 2001. By 2003, the number drastically increased to over 3000, which means the nationwide supply of organs increased dramatically since 1999, according to the WOIPFG report. The WOIPFG report used liver transplants as an example because without this single organ, the donor could not survive. The China Liver Transplant Registry recorded 9,911 liver transplant cases between Jan. 1, 2005, and June 24, 2007. Furthermore, in stark contrast to the average two- to three-year waiting period in other countries, many hospitals in China indicated that it took only one to two weeks to locate a matching organ. The Beijing News report's limited figures and the subsequent wide adoption of the report by other official mouthpieces could lead people to wonder about its implications. China analyst Lan Shu with the New York-based New Tang Dynasty Television, a primarily Chinese-language broadcaster, said in a telephone interview that in the face of strong international pressure and recurring internal protests, the Chinese communist authorities were preparing a way out for themselves. Lan said, "Among the possible scenarios, one is the ultimate collapse of the entire communist system. Another possibility is that the top executive level may sacrifice part of the system through scapegoating." He indicated that in his opinion, the former option would be preferable.
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| Falun Gong Rally in New York to End 13 Years of Persecution in China Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:17 PM PDT Flaun Gong practitioners in New York City gathered in front of City Hall on Friday to call for an end to the Chinese regime's persecution of the spiritual practice. |
| 13th Anniversary of the Persecution of Falun Gong in China Posted: 20 Jul 2012 08:59 AM PDT Today is July 20th. In China, it marks the 13th anniversary of the start of a nationwide, systematic crackdown on Falun Gong. |
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