Stranded at Shenzhen airport
SHENZHEN — Heavy rain and violent thunderstorms delayed thousands of passengers at Shenzhen’s airport Friday, causing havoc at airline counters where irate Chinese passengers scrambled to find alternate flights out of the city. At the Shenzhen airlines counter, men slammed their fists on counter tops and shouted loudly. The women, many of them on their...
NYT: Rural China’s Hunger for Sons Fuels Traffic in Abducted Boys
An article in today’s New York Times brought me to tears this afternoon. The story tells the plight of parents in the south of China whose children have been abducted and sold to other families in want of sons. The children don’t travel far. From the city, many are brought to the rural areas, where...
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