A photo showing a seven month pregnant woman forced into an abortion has shocked Chinese web users. Feng Jiamei was forced into the abortion by local government officials after she was unable to pay a fine for having a second child.
This is the latest in a line of forced abortions in China as a result of the country’s one-child policy, according to activist groups like the US based “All Girls Allowed.”
“The one-child policy continues to sanction violence against women every day,” Chai Ling of All Girls Allowed told the BBC. Continue reading →
Key interest rates in China have been cut in an attempt to arrest a decline in growth. The benchmark one-year loan rate was cut a quarter of a percent and deposit rates by the People’s Bank of China was also lowered a quarter of a percent. Continue reading →
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman stated their unity with Russia in opposing any outside intervention in the looming civil war in Syria. The spokesman urged support for the peace plan offered by the UN that has proven unable to stop the violence as government troops have continued to massacre citizens.
China currently holds the presidency of the UN Security Council’s rotating presidency and has long resisted pressure to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over actions taken by his government. Continue reading →
South Korean officials have seized nearly 17,500 capsules of drugs from Chinese manufacturers that contain the powdered remains of aborted babies.
The pills, believed by some parts of their culture to be a “tonic” for disease, actually contained what the Korea Customs Service said is a “super bacteria” that is dangerous to humans. Continue reading →