Telegraph.co.uk, 16 Jan 2008, Ben Bland
The Asia File
It's the cycle of life, but not as we know it. A Singaporean triad known as the "One-Eyed Dragon" is hanged after being convicted of murdering a nightclub boss and his kidney is donated to a local retail magnate who was so desperate for a transplant that he illegally tried to buy a kidney off an Indonesian man last year.
While Tang Wee Sung, whose family founded the up-market department store Tangs (Singapore's answer to Selfridges), has not confirmed that he received a kidney from the executed gangster, the Straits Times and other local publications reported that before he was hanged, the "One-Eyed Dragon" specified that Tang be given one of his kidneys.
With Tang remaining silent on where his new kidney came from, bloggers are speculating as to its origins and how he managed to secure it.
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