China Jails Three Human Rights Activists

Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of  three Chinese rights activists who were sentenced to jail by a court on Friday in Guangzhou in southern China.Guo Feixiong was jailed for six years while fellow activists Liu Yuandong, 37, and Sun Desheng, 32, were sentenced to three years and two-and-a-half years in prison, respectively.They were found guilty of “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place”.

'Transplant Tourists Trade In China: Religious Prisoner's Vital Organs Ripped Out While They Were ALIVE

According to a new documentary, China harvested livers, kidneys, corneas and even hearts from tens of thousands religious prisoners while they were still alive and the world is paying no attention.

Rumours of the live organ trade in China first surfaced in 2006, and have been supported by human rights lawyers, witnesses and even surgeons who admit having performed the operations.

But claims that supporters of the Falun Gong faith are having their organs sold to wealthy transplant tourists from all over the world are still not taken seriously.

The documentary, Hard to Believe, offers the first sustained examination into why the world is so willing to turn a blind eye to 'one of the most catastrophic human rights violations in our time'. 

Chinese tech giant Tsinghua , prepares biggest-ever US takeover bid – reports

Tsinghua Unigroup is preparing a bid for memory chip maker Micron, in what could be the biggest ever Chinese takeover of a US firm. The tech giant is reportedly set to offer 21 dollars per share for Micron, an almost 20 percent premium to the stock’s close on Monday.

Chinese customs officials confiscates frozen meat from the 1970s

Some 800 tonnes of smuggled frozen meat have been seized by Chinese customs officials including one batch dating from the 1970s.

The meat was bound for restaurants, retailers and supermarkets in Hunan province, where it was found, and other Chinese provinces and major cities, according to a report from Xinhua, China's state news agency, on Tuesday.

Chinese man sues popular actress for causing spiritual damage by staring at him through television screen

According to  court documents in a  Chinese man claim he suffered spiritual damage after a popular actress stared at him through his television screen.

The man filed a lawsuit against the actress in the People's Court of Shanghai.The lawsuit he named Zhao Wei as the defendant, claiming that she stared at the man with her big eyes through the television screen.

#Chinashipwreck: 396 dead bodies recovered from Yangtze river

According to a Chinese state media, at least 396 out of the more than 400 missing bodies had been recovered by Saturday from the Chinese cruise ship which  capsized Monday night.

The Eastern Star is upright once again, looking almost normal with its bottom resting on the water and its deck and cabins clear above it.

The ship's positioning Friday was a step forward in the dayslong nightmare playing out on a section of the Yangtze River that flows through Hubei province.

Blessing Okagbare wins 100m in Shanghai Diamond League

Blessing Okagbare

Nigerian sprinter, Blessing Okagbare easily outpaced a star-studded field, including highly-decorated Jamaican sprinters Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown in the Shanghai Diamond League 100 metres race today, producing a season’s best 10.98 seconds.

Campbell-Brown came in fourth and Olympic champion Fraser-Pryce fifth.The result is a blow for Fraser-Pryce in her first 100m of the season, only weeks before she defends her 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles in the Chinese capital.

“The feeling is OK,” the 28-year-old said after the race. “I am looking forward to my next race. What comes, comes.”

China: Kenya negotiates release of death-row inmate Floviance Razan Owino

The Kenyan government has begun negotiations with the Chinese government to secure the release of lady sentenced to death for drug trafficking.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery revealed on Monday that the government was approaching China through its envoy in Nairobi in an attempt to broker a deal for a Kenyan citizen, Ms Floviance Razan Owino’s release.

China: documentary fuels emission control debate

This comes ahead of a high-profile session of the Chinese parliament that begins on Thursday

A new documentary highlighting the hazards of smog in China, which has gone viral on the Internet, is set to fuel an energetic debate on emission controls during a high-profile session of the Chinese parliament that begins on Thursday.

The hard hitting documentary by Chai Jing, a former anchor of CCTV — the state-run television broadcaster — which makes skilful use of the camera and follows a direct, personalised storytelling technique, has already got favourable official response.

China’s environment minister, Chen Jining, compared Under the Dome — the name of Ms. Chai’s film to Silent Spring, the 1962 book by Rachel Carson that triggered the environment movement in the United States. The film, carefully timed before the “political season” in China, is hardly an anti-establishment anthem.

On the contrary, it amplifies one of the core aspects of “Chinese Dream,” a pet slogan of President Xi Jinping. Mr. Xi visualises the emergence of an environment-friendly China, where prosperity is not channelled into consumerism but into rational, eco-friendly consumption as part for his “Dream.”

People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese government, acknowledges that ahead of Thursday’s session of the National People's Congress (NPC), a poll has shown that “pollution control and environmental protection remains one of the biggest areas of public concern.” The NPC session is being preceded by the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) — a consultative forum in which delegates drawn from all over the country.

Pollution app

With the national sentiment against pollution spiralling, Chinese authorities have launched an app on social media forum WeChat that allows the public to report polluting practices to the authorities. On Monday, Pan Yue, the vice minister for environment, who announced the new initiative, pointed out that a “large number of regulations exist in name only and perform practically no function.”

As the Chinese planners embark on the difficult process of transitioning towards an innovation and enterprise oriented economy, the market for “clean energy” products is expected to rise. Global Times— a newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party of China (CPC) — is reporting that shares in 18 environmental protection-related companies on the mainland capital market surged on Monday after the documentary was released.

“The documentary has greatly raised the public’s awareness and knowledge on environmental protection, which will surely benefit the growth of the industry,” the daily quoted an official from a pharmaceutical company that produces anti-smog masks. The output of China’s energy-saving and environmental protection sector is expected to reach $719.5 billion dollars in 2015.