Word: fung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...India, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, young people advertise organs for sale, sometimes to pay for college educations. In Hong Kong a businessman named Tsui Fung circulated a letter to doctors in March offering to serve as middleman between patients seeking kidney transplants and a Chinese military hospital in Nanjing that performs the operation. The letter said the kidneys would come from live "volunteers," implying that they would be paid donors. The fee for the kidney, the operation and round-trip airfare: $12,800. With that, the Hong Kong government moved to put into effect legislation that would...