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Police Turn Blind Eye To Baby Smuggling Trade

Zhang Suxia, an obstetrician in Shaanxi’s Fuping county, who for eight years allegedly sold her patient’s healthy babies on the booming black market, is at the heart of a recent baby-trafficking scandal, which has...

Coin of Realm in China Graft: Phony Receipts

The New York Times’ David Barboza describes China’s booming trade in fake fapiao tax receipts: To begin to comprehend China’s vast underground economy, one need only visit this city’s major transportation depots and...

New Measure Bans Private Adoptions of Orphans

China’s central government announced on Tuesday that individuals and groups who find abandoned children cannot privately adopt them. From the Associated Press: The new rules say people wanting to adopt must go through...

Facing Counterfeiting Crackdown, Beijing Vendors Fight Back

The Silk Street Market in Beijing is famous among locals and tourists alike as a massive mall of fake designer goods.  Now Silk Street vendors of counterfeit bags and clothing are protesting a crackdown on their stalls by the...

China’s Black Market iPhones Surpass 1 million

Paul Ruppert reports on China’s black market iPhones, which represent 20 percent of the phone’s global market. From Mobile Messaging 2.0: Everyone is gaga about the iPhone–summer silly season–even in China where it...

Smugglers Return iPhones to China

Apple’s stalled negotiations with China Mobile may have delayed the iPhone’s official debut in China, but perhaps millions have already been sold by smugglers, some for more than $600. From the New York Times: These...

N.Y., China Investigating Black Market in Bodies

From ABC News: Authorities in China and New York have opened investigations into allegations that a black market in Chinese bodies, which may include executed prisoners, is sending corpses to the United States for public...

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