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...fast, cheap and safe" transplants for foreigners who are willing to travel to China, says it arranges 30 to 50 operations a year. The source of the kidneys and livers? "Executed prisoners," a Bek-Medical staffer told TIME. But that may soon change. In July, China is scheduled to implement new regulations banning organ sales and requiring written consent from donors or their relatives. If Beijing sticks to its new rules, organ brokers may have to look elsewhere for business opportunities...
...Still, the bullish investment is offset by common developing-country woes. Infrastructure hasn't kept pace with growth; electricity, telecommunications and port fees are relatively costly. Last summer, a drought in the north reduced hydroelectric generation and the government was forced to implement rolling power outages. Vietnam still hasn't developed support industries to supply parts and services to factories, forcing them to import parts and expertise. Meanwhile, restrictive labor laws make it virtually impossible to fire unproductive workers, and managers in foreign-owned factories complain about pervasive government corruption and interference. In January, Hanoi abruptly decreed that the minimum...
...fast, cheap and safe" transplants for foreigners who are willing to travel to China, says it arranges 30 to 50 operations a year. The source of the kidneys and livers? "Executed prisoners," a Bek-Medical staffer told TIME. But that may soon change. In July, China is scheduled to implement new regulations banning organ sales and requiring written consent from donors or their relatives. If Beijing sticks to its new rules, organ brokers may have to look elsewhere for business opportunities...
...status at a kiosk near the finish line. The main purpose of such a system is to ensure that no runner is lost, but public health officials say they hope to use the Boston Marathon as a test of the patient tracking system. Officials hope to implement a similar system to respond to disaster situations that flood hospitals with casualties, according to Ridley. Hurricane Katrina, for example, created chaos in New Orleans when government officials and families had no way to access information about patients being treated in area hospitals and makeshift medical tents. Giving all incoming patients...
...holding successful democratic elections (despite an ongoing military occupation) and hopeful that the Hamas-led government can bring a new and more successful approach to internal governance and relations with Israel. While, like many Palestinians, I am anxious to learn how a Hamas-led government will choose to implement its Islamist party values in the fairly liberal Palestinian society, I also share the widespread conviction that the democratically-elected majority party is the last chance the Palestinians have to create an effective, transparent, and responsive government under the current post-Oslo political structure. Hamas’s success in government...