Moped rider dies in horrific accident after being buried under boiling tar in China

A scooter rider was killed in a horrific accident when a lorry swerved to avoid him but overturned, spilling 10 tons of boiling hot tar on top of him. 

The lorry driver Yang Fu told police in Yuhuan, Zhejiang province that his vehicle had overturned when he was forced to brake hard after the scooter suddenly pulled out in front of him.

 'The bitumen poured out all over the man on the bike. You could smell it burning. There were some terrible screams and then silence,' said witness Liu Jin.

 Firefighters needed special heat proof boots as they searched for the biker's body in the tar, which was being kept at a temperature of 100 degrees Celsius in the truck.

 'He was beyond saving. He would have been dead within the first minute,' said an emergency services spokesman.

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‘Kidney for an iPad’ trial begins in China as five face court over illegal trade in human organs

Five people are facing trial in China for illegal organ trading and intentional injury after a student sold his kidney to buy an iPad and iPhone. The 17-year-old nearly died after the operation to remove one of his vital organs, which he reportedly sold for the equivalent of around £1,900. 

 The defendants include the surgeon who removed the kidney from the teenager in the central province of Hunan. The student's mother raised the alarm after she became suspicious about where he had got the money for his new gadgets. He eventually admitted to selling his kidney. If found guilty, the defendants face up to 10 years in prison according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. 

The teenager suffered renal failure after the transplant, and was said to be too ill to attend the hearing. Identified only as Wang, prosecutors say the young man was recruited in an online chat room. 

They accused one of the defendants, He Wei, of arranging the illegal kidney transplant last April in order to pay his gambling debts, the BBC reports. Official statistics show that more than a million people in China need a transplant every year The group is said to have received around $35,000 (£22,000) for the transplant, while the student was reportedly given about $3,000 for his kidney, roughly £1,900. 

He nearly died after suffering renal failure following the operation and is said to still be in poor health. Mr He has denied the charges, and told judges that the teenager had been willing to undergo the surgery. Four others who are accused of having a minor involvement in the case also face fines. 

 Apple products are extremely popular in China, but are too expensive for many. IPhones start at around 3,988 yuan (£400), and iPads begin at 2,988 yuan - just under £190. The country faces a constant shortage of organ donors.

 The organ industry in China is booming and trading organs is a widespread online practice in the country. Official figures from the health ministry show that about 1.5 million people need transplants, but only 10,000 are performed annually, driving a lucrative black market trade. Few Chinese agree to donate their organs after death, fuelling the rampant llegal market activity.

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World's biggest traffic fine? Chinese driver whose overloaded truck collapsed a bridge

A Chinese driver whose truck was so heavy the bridge he drove on collapsed has been sent the nearly £16m bill for the repair work. 

The driver, named by Chinese media only as Mr Zhang, was driving a truck filled with sand which was so overloaded that the concrete bridge collapsed when he took his lorry across it.

 The local government near Beijing has put the blame solely on Mr Zhang and have sent him the bill to pay for the repairs. The heavy bridge will cost £15.74million to repair and the local government is expecting the driver to pay it all. 

They say it was his fault that he had put too much sand in his truck last summer and that he must now pay the price for his actions. 

 The China Car Times wrote: ‘On July 19th of last year, a 34-year-old trucker who has only been named Mr Zhang by Chinese media sources was trucking sand across the outskirts of Beijing, ‘His 110 ton truck caused a bridge to collapse. 

‘After a yearlong police investigation the courts have come to the decision that the blame is solely on Mr Zhang's shoulders due to his overloading ways, Mr Zhang's defence so far seems to be that he was just doing what he was told by the trucking company.

 ‘It's unclear how, or even if, Mr Zhang is able to pay his 156 million RMB but we suspect that the bailiffs will have a hard time collecting.'

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China lifts ban on lesbians giving blood

The Chinese Ministry of Health has lifted a 14-year-old ban on lesbians donating blood in effect as of July 1. The ban still applies to men who are s*xually active with other men, but celibate homos*xuals are permitted to give blood, according to the Ministry of Health's website. 

The original ban, enacted in 1998, barred homosexuals of both genders from donating blood out of a fear of spreading HIV and AIDS. 'Mama Wu' unlikely hero for homos*xuals in China Xu Bin, a prominent lesbian rights activist in China, told the Global Times she applauded the amendment and what it means for lesbians in China.

 "It is also about our dignity and the elimination of blood donation discrimination," she was quoted as saying. Home HIV test closer to reality Xu, who goes by her nickname Xian, first tried to donate blood in 2008 after an earthquake in Sichuan Province, when she learned of the ban and began campaigning against it.

 FDA to discuss HIV drug for prevention "It's scientific that the policy doesn't mention homosexual identity but only fences off some who have certain s*x behaviors, because AIDS is not caused by one's homosexual identity but improper s*xual behavior," Xian told the Global Times. 

AIDS first made an appearance in China in the 1980s when an Argentinean tourist died from the disease while on holiday in the country. Like other areas of the world, the epidemic was shrouded in confusion which was exacerbated in China by official denials that it existed there.

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Two young Tibetan set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule(PHOTOS)

A double self-immolation protest in China has left one Tibetan man dead and another seriously injured. 

Former monk Tenzin Khedup, 24, and Ngawang Norphel, 22, held out Tibetan flags and shouted pro-independence songs as the flames engulfed them on the street in Dzatoe township in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province. 

Passersby watched in horror as Khedup burned to death in front of them, while Norphel was taken to hospital with serious burns, Radio Free Asia reported.

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China to probe death of Nigerian in police custody

China on Thursday pledged to investigate the death of a Nigerian man while in police custody in the southern city of Guangzhou. The 28-year-old businessman, whose name was given by Chinese state media as Elebechi Celestine, was detained after fighting on Monday with the driver of an electric bicycle over a disputed fare. 

 He died after being taken to the police station, sparking a protest by over 100 foreign nationals, identified as Africans, a day after the incident. Some Internet postings claimed Celestine had been beaten by a crowd of Chinese onlookers.

 “We will investigate the case in accordance with the law as soon as possible and provide relevant information to the Nigerian side,” foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a regular news briefing. Officials of Guangdong province, where the city is located, had already communicated with the Nigerian embassy about the death and diplomats had confirmed the nationality of the victim, he said.

 He gave no details about the possible cause of death. The official China Daily quoted Nigerian embassy spokesman Ademola Oladele as saying: “We hope to see an independent autopsy report. “We hope the incident can be appropriately addressed so it will not affect the current excellent relations between Nigeria and China.”

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Firework factory blasts kill 14

Explosions ripped through two fireworks factories in China k*lling 14 people and injuring 13, state media reported Monday. A blast Monday morning at a factory in Dongtun, in Huaiyang district of central Henan province, left seven dead and 12 injured, Xinhua news agency said, quoting local authorities. 

 The factory was operating illegally as its licence had expired, and the family of the owner had been detained by police, it said. Local authorities have ordered the closure of all fireworks factories in the district, the news agency added. 

 An explosion Sunday at a licensed fireworks factory in Yichun, in eastern Jiangxi province, also killed seven people and injured one. The cause of the blasts was being investigated, Xinhua said. China’s huge fireworks industry is notorious for its lax safety standards, especially among smaller producers.

 Exported Chinese fireworks also do not always meet the safety standards of their destination country. A cargo of seven tonnes of fireworks destined for Austria was judged to be dangerous and seized in November at the Dutch port of Rotterdam.

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Outrage as China 'forces seven month pregnant woman to have abortion for breaching one-child policy'

Grisly photos of a young woman lying beside her baby which had been aborted by force in her seventh month of pregnancy have caused outrage in China. Pictures purporting to show the woman and her blood-covered baby have shocked anti-abortion groups in China - and fury is spreading around the world. 

The mother, Feng Jianmei, told local media that she was forceably injected with a chemical to induce an abortion and her child was stillborn 36 hours later. Because she already had a child, said Feng, local birth-control authorities ordered her to pay a fine of £4,000. 

She didn't have the money, she said, so a team from the local family planning authority in Shannxi province came to collect her from her home and take her to hospital for the forced abortion. Recounting the horror, Feng said she told the family planning department she could not pay the fine because her mother-in-law needed money for cancer treatment.

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Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea

Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today. The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal 'cure-all'. 

The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born. 

The tiny corpses are then bought, stored in household refrigerators in homes of those involved in the trade before they are removed and taken to clinics where they are placed in medical drying microwaves.

 Once the skin is tinder dry, it is pummelled into powder and then processed into capsules along with herbs to disguise the true ingredients from health investigators and customs officers.

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Incredible love story in china

An incredible love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world. 

It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half a century.

The 70-year-old Chinese man who hand-carved over 6,000 stairs up a mountain for his 80-year-old wife has passed away in the cave which has been the couple's home for the last 50 years.

Over 50 years ago, Liu Guojiang a 19 year-old boy, fell in love with a 29 year-old widowed mother named Xu Chaoqin..

In a twist worthy of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, friends and relatives criticized the relationship because of the age difference and the fact that Xu already had children. 

This is a true love story not all those Nigerian jagga jagga love. Please read on.....

At that time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman.. To avoid the market gossip and the scorn of their communities, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing Municipality.

In the beginning, life was harsh as hey had nothing, no electricity or even food. They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made a kerosene lamp that they used to light up their lives.

Xu felt that she had tied Liu down and repeatedly asked him, 'Are you regretful? Liu always replied, 'As long as we are industrious, life will improve.'

In the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began and continued for over 50 years, to hand-carve the steps so that his wife could get down the mountain easily.

Half a century later in 2001, a group of adventurers were exploring the forest and were surprised to find the elderly couple and the over 6,000 hand-carved steps. Liu MingSheng, one of their seven children said, 'My parents loved each other so much, they have lived in seclusion for over 50 years and never been apart a single day. He hand carved more than 6,000 steps over the years for my mother's convenience, although she doesn't go down the mountain that much.'

The couple had lived in peace for over 50 years until last week. Liu, now 72 years, returned from his daily farm work and collapsed. Xu sat and prayed with her husband as he passed away in her arms. So in love with Xu, was Liu, that no one was able to release the grip he had on his wife's hand even after he had passed away.

'You promised me you'll take care of me, you'll always be with me until the day I died, now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?'

Xu spent days softly repeating this sentence and touching her husband's black coffin with tears rolling down her cheeks. In 2006, their story became one of the top 10 love stories from China , collected by the Chinese Women Weekly. The local government has decided to preserve the love ladder and the place they lived as a museum, so this love story can live forever.

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Woman Kills Man By Squeezing His Testicles In Street Fight over Parking Space

There are worse ways to die, but you probably don’t want to think about them, especially if you’re a guy. A Chinese man was reportedly killed last week when a woman squeezed his testicles until he collapsed during a fight over a parking space. 

An unidentified 41-year-old woman in China’s Haiku City in the Hainan Province rode into town on her scooter to pick her child up from school. The woman tried to park in front of a local store, but the store owner, the 42-year-old victim, refused to allow it, China News 24 reported. 

 The resulting fight escalated, leading the woman to call her husband and brother, who in turn got into a more violent fist fight with the shopkeeper, according to the website. At some point in the fracas, the woman grabbed the man’s testicles and squeezed them until he collapsed. He was taken to a hospital for treatment and later died. 

 Parking disputes can get ugly just about anywhere. On March 26, Louisiana resident Shawntay Brown, 19, was arrested for biting a 15-year-old’s br*ast during a brawl in Monroe. 

 An affidavit in the case included a police officer’s statement that the 15 year old “showed me the bite mark.” A video is said to show Brown running after the younger girl and biting her on a tender spot, the Smoking Gun reported. Brown contends that the other girl bit her first.

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71year-old Man Drinks Petrol and Kerosene as Medicine for 42-years

Gasoline powers vehicles all around the world, but a sick Chinese man has been drinking the sticky liquid for 42 years under the illusion that it can relieve his physical pain. Chen Dejun, 71, lives by himself in shabby thatched cottage on a hill in Shuijiang township, Nanchuan district of southwest China’s Chongqing municipality. 

The short and bony man said he drinks 3 to 3.5 kilograms of gasoline every month, which he buys from a station at the foot of the hill. Chen is known locally as a stone-cutter and master of weaving bamboo with a good business sense. But he’s also known for his undying love of drinking gasoline.

 He developed the habit back in 1969 when he suddenly began coughing and felt pain in his chest. Seeing no progress after trying some medicine, he took up the folk remedy of drinking kerosene, Chongqing Evening News reported. It turned out to be helpful for him after the first sip, and he since became addicted to kerosene. 

Then he moved on to gasoline. Chen said it is hard to calculate exactly how much gasoline he has swallowed throughout his life, but the newspaper reported Chen has consumed an estimated 1.5 tons over the past 42 years. Chen’s wife Yuan Huibi and their three sons tried many times to stop Chen’s addiction to gasoline, but those efforts only made the family relations tense. Eight years ago Chen moved to the cottage to live alone. 

 Sources from Honglou Hospital in Chongqing said Chen‘s health is fine despite having symptoms of emphysema. Chen refused to receive free check ups from the hospital. Feng Fu, an associate professor with the Second Hospital Affiliated to Chongqing Medical University, said Chen may have developed some resistance to gasoline. Otherwise, Feng said, it would be impossible for Chen to live. Feng also said gasoline may only work as anaesthetic for Chen but can’t cure his pain.

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China to end organ donations from executed prisoners

China has pledged to end the practice of taking organs from executed prisoners within the next five years, state media report.

Officials say the country would instead rely on a new national donation system for organ transplants.

Prisoners account for two-thirds of China's transplant organs, according to previous estimates from state media.

Human rights groups say death row inmates are pressured to donate organs - China denies such allegations.

Correspondents say that China has long said it intends to reduce reliance on prisoners for organ donation, but the sheer volume of organs needed may make this difficult to achieve within the timeframe set out.

Official figures from the health ministry show that about 1.5 million people need transplants, but only 10,000 are performed annually, by state-run agency Xinhua says.

Huang Jiefu, vice minister of health, was quoted by Xinhua as saying that a trial system for public organ donation has been launched in some areas.

"The pledge to abolish organ donations from condemned prisoners represents the resolve of the government," he said.

He added that organ donations from prisoners were not ideal because infections are usually high, affecting the long-term survival rates of those who undergo the transplants.

Rights groups estimate that China puts to death thousands of prisoners a year.

Official figures, however, remain a state secret, according to the BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing.

He adds that the country faces a severe shortage of organ donors, partly because many people do not want to donate organs due to the cultural belief of that they should be buried whole.

This has led to a thriving black market. Officials outlawed organ trafficking five years ago, but it still remains a problem.

The Red Cross Society of China has also said that guidelines would be issued regarding financial aid to families of the deceased organ donors to help curb the illegal organ trade.

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