Macao may be world famous for its casinos and gaming industry, but the new Macao Science Center aims to attract a different sort of tourist to the island: those interested in science, technology and space travel.

Hospitals are generally havens for the sick, and places for recovery … however, for one family in Northern China’s Heilongjiang province, they have been left piecing their lives back together after a visit to a sick relative resulted in cold-blooded murder.

Despite all of our advances in medicine, cancer is still a deadly sickness that continues to plague people in societies around the world. One woman, however, is doing her part to help researchers discover a cure.

Recently the case of a young quadriplegic who has asked doctors to end his life made the news in China. 22 year old Hao Yun was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident.

He says a life lying motionless in bed is unbearable and that he is simply a burden to his family. But Hao Yun's requests have been refused. Chinese law forbids "depriving another person of their life" – and legally so-called "mercy killings" are equivalent to murder. 

The debate over euthanasia has been running since 1986. Then, a man whose terminally ill mother was in great pain, persuaded a doctor to administer a lethal dose of drugs. Both he and the doctor were found guilty of murder and spent six years in detention before being released by a higher court.

The man himself then got stomach cancer. When he asked his family and doctors to help him die they refused and he died in great pain 2003.

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