AsiaCast

Asia Cast for Sunday 25th January

In this Bulletin…

- Chinese Regime doctors Obama’s inaugural address
- More evidence of the persecution of Falun Gong; and
- Miracle landing on the Hudson River.

But first, here’s our SOH focus on China
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Wang Ling, an appellant in Beijing was recently interviewed by Sound of Hope regarding her time spent in jail for merely appealing a greivance at the 17th National Congress.

She also disclosed the many inhumane tortures the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses to coerce Falun Gong practitioners into giving up their belief in the peaceful Qi Gong practice. She said that Falun Gong practitioners came and went frequently. Often in the middle of the night, men in white hats and clothes would come into the cells and take the practitioners away while they were still asleep. 

Recent legal investigations have found that the Chinese Communist Regime has been using the persecution that they have been waging on Falun Gong practitioners as an opportunity to murder many thousands of these innocent people, so as to sell their body parts on the world organ trade market.

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It seems that the Chinese Communist Regime is still showing its inability to give true news to the Chinese people by doctoring Obama’s 18-minute inauguration address on Tuesday. References to Communism were left out all together and any mention of the totalitarian methods used by communism we also left out.

In the translations available on top Chinese portals Sina, Sohu, the word “communism” is omitted and a paragraph on dissent was gone. Another widely viewed portal, Netease, cut the paragraph in its entirety. The paragraph mentioning dissent was included in the Netease version, and was widely praised by Chinese posting comments.

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And now for the rest of today’s Asia Cast
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On Friday a courageous move was made by the Indian government to ban several kinds of Chinese toys being imported into India. This move pleased local manufacturers but shocked importers.

A government statement issued late on Friday did not give details but industry officials said the order would ban imports of almost all toys from China. The government said in a statement it had banned imports for six months with immediate effect for the public interest.

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Two government officials have been arrested in Taiwan on charges of espionage and handling classified documents to China, Taiwanese media reported. Chen Pin-jen, 48, a former aide to a ruling Nationalist Party legislator, received government documents from Wang Jen-ping, a senior specialist at the Presidential Office’s Department of Special Affairs, and passed them on to Chinese intelligence agents.

Both Chen and Wang were arrested and detained for allegedly leaking state secrets to China after prosecutors conducted a raid on Wang’s office at the presidential building last Wednesday.

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A miracle from mid air was performed on Thursday by Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot of the Airbus A320 who performed an emergency landing in the Hudson river, saving all 155 on board in what experts called a masterful job under life-or-death pressure.

The ex military aviator made the landing after apparently hitting a flock of birds soon after takeoff resulting in massive power loss to the engines.

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Villagers in Angthong, central Thailand, have been issued a precautionary notice against avian flu after thousands of birds migrated to the region from China. Over 10,000 birds have escaped the winter cold, including the lesser whistling duck and open billed storks—of which the latter has been reported to be a potential carrier of the virus.

The provincial livestock chief told The Nation newspaper that there was no chance of an outbreak occurring. Earlier on January 17, the Public Health Ministry issued a warning to 14 provinces to monitor signs of the avian flu or any human contagion.

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