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Chinese police rescued 89 infants kidnapped for sale and arrested 369 people they said were linked to two human trafficking rings this month, state media reported on Wednesday.
In the first case, the traffickers, who were mostly Vietnamese residents, abducted children from Vietnam and sold them in China’s southern regions of Guangdong and Guangxi, the ChinaDaily said, citing an unnamed officer from Guangdong’s provincial department of public security.
In mid-July, police detained 39 suspects in connection with trafficking and rescued eight infants, aged 10 days to seven months, who had been drugged with sleeping pills, the newspaper said.
In another crackdown this month, police arrested 330 people suspected of involvement in the trafficking of baby girls, the newspaper said. The police operation took place across 14 provinces.
‘One child’ policy
The 81 infants rescued in this operation were aged 10 days to four months and are now in the care of institutions, the report said.
Efforts by China, the world’s most populous nation, to contain population growth through a strict “one child” policy, coupled with the country’s long tradition of favoring boys, have contributed to the rise in cases of trafficking in children and women.
Women are sold to men in remote areas who are unable to find brides due to the sex imbalance resulting from China’s one-child which has encouraged sex-selective abortions.
Police set up a special task force in February following the discovery of a child kidnap ring in the Guangxi region, the newspaper said.
Another trafficking operation was broken up in the poor southwestern province of Yunnan this May.
The report said that police have uncovered 39,194 cases of human trafficking in China since April 2009, the majority of the cases involving women or children.
Children were aged from just 10 days to seven months
Somebody’s trying to kill us! Well that may sound a bit extreme, but it may be true. Babies in China drinking a particular brand of powdered milk may be causing infants to start puberty a bit prematurely.
According to reports, three babies between 4 and 15 months have shown signs of that dreaded time in everyone’s life, including growth of breasts!
The babies have the same amount of estradiol
(aka the female sex hormone) as any adult woman. The company responsible for manufacturing the product denies that any of its milk is contaminated with any thing. But I’m not so sure about that.
Remember that lead episode with China. They denied that their toys had poisons in them. Who’s to say their milk doesn’t.
Isaiah Mustafa, the former NFL player whose fame skyrocketed as “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like,” has just been cast opposite Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman in Warner Bros. upcoming comedy “Horrible Bosses.”
The film follows three friends who conspire to murder their awful bosses for standing in the way of their happiness. Mustafa will portray a police officer.
“It’s a smaller role, but who wouldn’t want to be in one of these funny, irreverent comedies?” Mustafa tells the Hollywood Reporter. “The cast is great. I’m playing a cop because I play these authoritative characters well. I don’t know exactly who I’m in the scene with — maybe Jennifer Aniston.”
The casting in “Horrible Bosses” follows parts in Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” as well as an upcoming guest spot on NBC’s action-comedy “Chuck.”
All this comes on the heels of Nielsen data indicating that sales of Old Spice body products are up a monumental 107% in the past month as a result of his Emmy-nominated spots, and the Old Spice YouTube channels have been viewed more than 58 million times.
Mustafa’s second ad for the company premiered in recent weeks, and it could be his last.
“As far as commercials, I don’t think there are any more lined up,” he says. “They could always change their mind and want more. I signed on to be their spokesperson for a year, so I still have a few months left.”
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for ‘his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China’.
Currently serving an 11-year jail term, the 54-year-old may not even know that he has been given one of the world’s greatest honours.
The award has already enraged China who claimed the Nobel had violated its principles by honouring ‘criminal’ Liu Xiaobo.
Speaking after the announcement, panel chairman Thorbjoern Jagland, said Liu was a symbol of the fight for freedom in his country.
‘China has become a big power in economic terms as well as political terms, and it is normal that big powers should be under criticism,’ he said.
Liu has continually called for sweeping political reforms in China, as well as campaigning for freedom of expression and freedom of religion.