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Take 3: futuristic hotels

Miura Hotel, Celadna, Czech Republic Miura.cz Giant figures by sculptor David Cerny lean against and sit on this sleek hotel giving the sharp, (...)

Former deputy health minister Huang Jiefu (centre) and his colleagues pay silent tribute to a deceased patient who was willing to donate her organs at a hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, last year. China plans to end its controversial practice of using the organs of executed prisoners for transplants around the middle of next year. Photograph: Reuters
China sets 2014 for end to transplants of inmates’ organs

China, the only country that still systematically takes organs from executed prisoners for use in transplant operations, plans to end the controversi(...)

“The preponderance of facts tells us that the more severe the corruption problem becomes, it will ultimately lead the party and the nation to perish,” said China’s president Xi Jinping in November. Photograph: Feng Li/Getty Images
China cracks down on corruption to shore up Communist Party support

When He Shen, the most corrupt official of the Qing dynasty, was ousted after 24 years as a court favourite of Emperor Qianlong, investigators discove(...)

Asia Briefing: Boots and Walgreen players in consolidating pharma retail market

Also taking note of the growing Chinese domestic consumption market are the pharmacy giants Alliance Boots and the US firm Walgreen, which recently bo(...)

A vendor puts chickens into a plastic bag at a poultry market in Hefei, Anhui province, today. Chinese authorities reported four new cases of a strain of bird flu previously unknown in humans that has already killed two people. Photograph: Reuters
Man dies of new bird flu strain in China

China has identified two new cases of a new strain of bird flu, and one of the victims has died, in the eastern city of Hangzhou, state media s(...)

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