For many Chinese people, the high price of hospital drugs is already an issue that makes some patients sick to their stomachs. Now, a new scandal has come to light that makes the problem even harder to swallow. At one hospital in the city of Ningbo, doctors have been disciplined after it emerged that they received kickbacks for selling certain drugs to their patients. Susan Tart has the story.
Attempts by local governments in China to regulate human flesh searches on the internet, or crowd sourcing as it's also known, has sparked controversy here.
A human flesh search is when thousands, sometimes millions, of inpidual internet users piece together every detail of a person's life and then publish them online. It's part online detective work, part manhunt. And it's proved particularly popular with internet users here who have used the power of the web to expose everyone from corrupt officials to a woman who filmed herself killing a kitten with her stiletto.