Results tagged “twins”

Doing nothing to put ends to the stereotype that Asians do all look the same, Tianya has an incredibly popular thread right now that compares East Asian pop stars that seem to have been separated at birth.

Hong Kong singer Gillian Chung, one of many starlets embroiled in the Edison Chen photo scandal last year, broker her silence on Saturday. In an interview with TVB, she demanded an apology and explanation from Edison, and revealed that she had thought about killing herself when the pictures leaked. Gillian is the second star to be interviewed, after Cecilia Cheung appeared on television last week lambasting Edison for failing to protect or console the women whose lives he'd inadvertently ruined. Interest in the case was recently renewed when Edison appeared in a Canadian court to give testimony against the man who stole the photos. Source: Electric Paper

A pair of female Siamese twins joined at the belly have been successfully separated by doctors in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The girls are understood to be in critical condition and even their parents have not been allowed to spend time with them. The parents of the twins say that doctors had only told them during their three ultrasound checks that they would have twins but it was not until the day of the caesarian operation did they realise that the girls were conjoined. Four days after birth, the girls were admitted to the Shenzhen Children's Hospital. At that time, they weighed only 4.2kg in total, but grew to 9.6kg before doctors decided to go ahead with the operation. This is only the second case of conjoined twins to be handled by Shenzhen doctors.

Or a genuine case of twins? You decide...

In February we marveled when doctors in Urumqi removed a parasitic twin from the belly of this baby girl. The rare abnormality has occurred again, this time with an infant in Henan province. The fetus in fetu was discovered after the boy was born with an extra penis on his back, which was removed in a three-hour procedure on June 6. While the case was the first of its type at the Tianjin Childrens’ Hospital, doctors say that are not more than 100 cases of parasitic twins in the world, with ten of them in China. If all goes well, the child can be discharged in 10-12 days.