NTD Weekly Newsletter - December 12, 2012

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Issue 53 December 12, 2012

- Organ Harvesting Abuses Exposed in White House

Petition and European Parliament Hearing

- Moving Mountains

- Nobel Laureate Silent

- Candles Out of Stock

Organ Harvesting Abuses Exposed in White House Petition and European Parliament Hearing

Three medical doctors in the US launched an online petition to highlight organ transplant abuse in China. It appears on the White House website, under the "We the People" initiative. Meanwhile, the European Parliament held a hearing in which organ transplant abuse was a main topic.

Petition Urges Obama to Condemn Organ Harvesting in China [Click to watch]

Organ Harvesting Raised at European Parliament Hearing [Click to watch]

EU Forum on Human Rights: China's Human Rights Violations Addressed [Click to watch]

Moving Mountains

A major construction firm has laid out plans to expand buildable land by 500 square miles in a largely underdeveloped western province. 700 mountains will be leveled and carted away.

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Nobel Laureate Silent

As Chinese writer Mo Yan collects his Nobel Prize for literature this week, Chinese activists and former Nobel laureates are lobbying for the release of another Chinese Nobel Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, from 2010. Liu has been serving an 11-year sentence for subversion, but Mo has been decidedly silent about his situation.

Mo Yan Withholds Calls for Liu Xiaobo's Release [Click to watch]

Norway Excluded from Beijing' 45 Country Visa-Free Transits List [Click to watch]

Candles Out of Stock

Perhaps in response to the movie "2012," wildly popular in China, the Mayan Calendar prediction of the world coming to an end on December 21 is being taken rather seriously on Weibo. Candles in the southwest are nowhere to be found and one man spent his life savings to build an ark.

News

NTD Corner

Heroes, Noodles and Empire

This week's Discovering China takes a look at the honored general Yue Fei, the Northern and Southern Dynasties period and your favorite beef noodles.[More]

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