Riot in Urumqi (w/ blood) – China News

URUMQI: Calm returned on Sunday to China's riot-hit Urumqi where 184 people died in the bloody violence a week ago, though the official tally of dead could rise, a regional official indicated.

A few videos of the Urumqi riots and a discussion of where they occurred, plus a link to a collection of images from the riot.

On Sunday, July 5th at around 9:30pm Beijing time, a riot began which has crippled Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang province. Many Uyghurs have taken to the streets, overturning cars and smashing windows.

During the 1980s, thousands of people in the West and Japan who underwent blood transfusions were infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. Subsequent national investigations into these scandals revealed that blood collection agencies were under-regulated and ripe with corruption.

Hearts and minds, the Half-Blood Prince and safeguarding national unity, dropping leaflets from helicopters. How long until Xinjiang residents start wearing "Stop Snitching" T-shirts?

You are what you eat, and so is your blood. Following Chinese New Year, around half of the blood donated in Beijing cannot be used due to high levels of cholesterol, a result of overindulgence over the holiday, a tradional time for feasting with the family.

Chinese netizens talk about their experiences donating blood, some criticizing that hospitals charge too much money for giving patients blood that was donated.

Blood slaves.

What a term. It's one that recently exposed to describe the hundreds of Chinese villagers in Guangdong province, China, who sell their blood as many as 10-15 times a month, 400cc each time, for a living.

At least 80 hospital patients in central China were infected with HIV through contaminated blood, according to a state media report that highlighted the continuing impact of a 1990s blood-selling scandal. The patients at the No.