July 04-06, 2009

Top News
XUAR
乌鲁木齐严重暴力犯罪事件致140人死828人伤 (140 Dead, 828 Injured in Urumqi Riot)
Xinhua News Agency (via Guangdong Daily), July 06, 2009
http://news.dayoo.com/china/200907/06/54503_9786038.htm

Related news:
Scores Killed in Clashes in Western China
New York Times, July 06, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/asia/07china.html

新疆官指境外炒作維漢衝突 (XUAR Official Says Outside Forces Stirred Up Uyghur-Han Clash)
Ming Pao (via Yahoo! News), July 06, 2009
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090706/4/d1o1.html

Related news:
China Calls Xinjiang Riot a Plot against Rule
Reuters, July 06, 2009
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE56501120090706

News
Hong Kong
Self-censorship in Media 'Worsens'
South China Morning Post, July 06, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=5ee72c2304b42210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

内地与香港确立“一国两制”下司法合作新模式 (Hong Kong and Mainland Establish New Model for Judicial Collaboration)
Legal Daily, July 06, 2009
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2009-07/06/content_1118335.htm

Human Rights Defenders
陈云飞申请政治避难被抓 (Chen Yunfei Detained en Route to Chengdu U.S. Consulate to Apply for Political Assylum in Taiwan)
Radio Free Asia, July 03, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/yunfei-07032009154203.html

Human Rights Defender –Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎)
美国西北航空公司拒绝冯正虎登机 (NWA Refuses to Let Activist and Scholar Feng Zhenghu Board Flight to Return to China)
Radio Free Asia, July 03, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/dissident_entry-07032009104331.html

Protests and Petitions
Shanghai Protesters Want Cash Back
South China Morning Post, July 05, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=d42ec39f07642210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Law
最高法要求审好五类涉民生行政案运用多种方式确保征地拆迁补偿合理 (SPC: Use Variety of Methods to Ensure Reasonable Compensation for Land Acquisition and Demolition)
Legal Daily, July 06, 2009
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2009-07/06/content_1118323.htm

Media
涉敏感話題為自保 傳媒「上報不上網」 (To Protect Themselves, Newspapers to Report Sensitive Information in Papers But Not Online)
Ming Pao (via Sina.com), July 06, 2009
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/9/1/1/1190147/1.html

Police
河北定兴一村民被派出所带走半小时后死亡 (Hebei Villager Dies 30 Minutes after Being Taken Away by Police)
Radio Free Asia, July 03, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/police_death-07032009103023.html

Public Health
Circular: China's Gov'ts Ordered to Spend More on Health Care
Xinhua News Agency, July 05, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/05/content_11657395.htm

七成医护人员不愿诊疗艾滋 (70% of Doctors and Nurses Unwilling to Treat HIV/AIDS Patients)
The Beijing News, July 06, 2009
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/guonei/2009/07-06/008@023758.htm

Religion
成都民政局拒绝取缔教会行政复议 (Chengdu Authorities Refuse to Accept Case of Administrative Reconsideration of Church Ban)
Voice of America, July 04, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2009-07-04-voa47.cfm

中国基督教家庭教会联合会成员被带走调查 (Around 60 Chinese House Church Alliance Members Detained for Questioning during Anniversary Celebration)
Radio Free Asia, July 06, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zhong-07052009160604.html

Taiwan
China Denied on Talks to Open Cross-strait Air Space
China Post, July 05, 2009
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan-relations/2009/07/05/214954/China-denied.htm

July 3, 2009

Children
SW China: Baby Girls Taken and Sold for Adoption
China Daily, July 03, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/03/content_8350825.htm

Corruption
China's System beyond the System
Asia Times Online, July 03, 2009
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KG03Ad01.html

Environment
China Opposed to Tariff Plan in US Climate Bill
Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), July 02, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_as/as_china_g8

專家稱美國駐華使館自測北京空氣質量不科學 (Unnamed “Beijing Environmental Monitoring Expert” Calls US Embassy's Monitoring of Beijing's Air Pollution Unscientific)
The Beijing News (via Sina.com), July 03, 2009
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/113/1/1/1187096/1.html

Related information:
Twittering Air Pollution Levels in Beijing
Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), June 19, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090619/wl_time/08599190573600

Green Dam
PC Makers Voluntarily Supply Web Filter in China
Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), July 02, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_as/as_tec_china_internet

Human Rights Defenders – Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
中国当局拒绝刘晓波保释申请 (Authorities Refuse Bail Application for Liu Xiaobo)
Radio Free Asia, July 02, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/liu-07022009160559.html

Media
北京作家凌沧洲罢写博客三天 (Beijing Writer Ling Cangzhou Holds Three Day Strike on Blog)
Radio Free Asia, July 02, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ling-07022009151846.html

六四议题敏感 《君子杂志》撤稿并解聘记者 (Esquire Journalist Dismissed over June Fourth Coverage)
Radio Free Asia, July 02, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/64-07022009103615.html

Police
Deaths in Detention House under Probe
Shanghai Daily, July 03, 2009
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200907/20090703/article_406220.htm

Water Torture Turns Innocent Ex-Soldier Blind in Prison
South China Morning Post, July 03, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=c0248b6508c32210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

南昌万建国案周四审结 警方滥用酷刑仍然普遍 (Hearing of Wan Jianguo Case Over; Police Abuse still Prevalent)
Radio Free Asia, July 02, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/nanchang-07022009143908.html

Related information:
Police Accused of Killing Detained Man: They Were Ordered to Use Violence
Human Rights in China, July 1, 2009
http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/170149

July 01-02, 2009

Top News of the Day
Police
Chinese Police Accused of Killing Suspect in Search of Confession
Guardian, July 01, 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/01/china-police-wan-jianguo-custody

On July 1, the trial of four police officers for involvement in the death of Wan Jianguo (万建国), who died in August 2008 on his 35th day of detention, opened in Nanchang Intermediate People’s Court in Jiangxi Province.

Related information:
Police Accused of Killing Detained Man: They Were Ordered to Use Violence
Human Rights in China, July 1, 2009
http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/170149

News
Religion
河南郑州教会遭打压 教友牧师被刑拘劳教 (Pressure from Officials on Henan House Church; Practitioners Detained, Sentenced to Reeducation-Through-Labor)
Radio Free Asia, July 01, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/jiaohui-07012009123556.html

Rural Issues
Legislature Takes Aim at Payout System That Values Villagers Less
South China Morning Post, July 01, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=a3a846ace1232210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Disasters
Party Linked to Toppled Building
South China Morning Post, July 02, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=7ffdad2843732210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Protests and Petitions
黃果樹景區武力清場 逾30村民傷 (Clash with Police Leaves More than 30 Injured after Villagers Block Entrance to Tourist Spot in Protest)
Ming Pao (via Sina.com), July 02, 2009
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/94/1/1/1186245/1.html

湖北公安县民办教师聚集上访 代表被刑拘 (Private Teachers in Hubei Protesting and Petitioning for Equal Treatment Criminally Detained, Petitioning Trips Intercepted)
Radio Free Asia, July 01, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/minban-07012009115252.html

Food Security
Villagers' Drinking Supply Undermined
China Daily, July 02, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/02/content_8345608.htm

Media
文化部:净化文化市场 非法动漫假唱等将严打 (Ministry of Culture: Cracking Down on Illegal Acts to Clean Up and Bring a Cultured Environment to Internet Cafes)
Legal Daily (via China Youth Daily), June 30, 2009
http://law.cyol.com/content/2009-06/30/content_2733444.htm

Facebook Twitter勢成監控目標 (Outside Influence from Social Networking Sites Such as Facebook and Twitter Become Target for Monitoring and Control)
Ming Pao (via Sina.com), July 02, 2009
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/94/1/1/1186254/1.html

China Cracks Down on Virtual Cash
BBC News, June 30, 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8126386.stm

Politics
Hu Urges Improved Democracy Within the Communist Party
South China Morning Post, July 01, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=386846ace1232210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

State Security
北京将建社会稳定预警机制 防暴力事件群体事件 (Beijing to Form an Early Warning System to Prevent Riots and Mass Events)
China News (via Xinhua News Agency), July 02, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-07/02/content_11639329.htm

Human Rights Defenders
闽维权人士被传唤 鄂维权志愿兵被刑拘 (Fujianese Activist Wu Huaying Subpoenaed; Hubei Representative for Volunteer PLA Soldiers Detained while Petitioning in Beijing)
Radio Free Asia, July 01, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/min-07012009144118.html

Corruption
China's New Corruption Hotline Overloaded
Agence France-Presse (via Yahoo! News), June 30, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/wl_afp/chinacorruptionhotline_20090630072546

Green Dam
China Delays Mandatory 'Green Dam' Installation
China Daily, June 30, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-06/30/content_8339705.htm

Related Information:
工信部新闻发言人就绿色上网过滤软件问题答记者问 (Spokesperson from MIIT Answers Questions on Green Internet Filtering Software)
Xinhua News Agency, June 30, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-06/30/content_11628642.htm

Plug Not Pulled on Software
China Daily, July 02, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-07/02/content_8345676.htm

Party Celebrates China Web Filter Delay
Reuters (via Yahoo! News), July 01, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/wl_nm/us_china_internet_celebration

June 30, 2009

News

Religion

四川成都一家庭教会强遭当局取缔 (Authorities Shut Down Chengdu House Church)
Voice of America (via Voice of America), June 30, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2009-06-28-voa25.cfm

Media
新華社英語電視明日開播 (Xinhua News Agency's English News Channel Begins Airing in EU on July 1)
Ming Pao (via Sina.com), June 30, 2009
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/94/1/1/1184090/1.html

Supermarkets Spread News as China Advances on English Language Broadcasts
Times, June 30, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6605449.ece

State Security
国家秘密须审慎界定 ("State Secrets" Must Be Cautiously Defined)
China Youth Daily, June 27, 2009
http://www.cyol.net/zqb/content/2009-06/27/content_2730861.htm

Politics
全國人大首次明確表態 同命不同價現象有望終結 (NPC for the First Time Clearly States that Urban and Rural Residents Should Receive Same Death Compensation)
The Beijing News (via Sina.com), June 30, 2009
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/113/1/1/1184334/1.html

Green Dam
“绿坝”克星“绿色海啸”问世 ("Green Tsunami" Released to Combat "Green Dam")
Radio Free Asia (via Radio Free Asia), June 30, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/lvba-06292009160803.html

Corruption
12 China Officials Jailed for Landslide
Taiwan News, June 29, 2009
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=989002

Disasters
Shanghai Home Owners Demand Refunds after Apartment Building Collapse
China Daily, June 28, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/28/content_11616206.htm

Hong Kong
Beijing 'Afraid' of Big Turnout for March
South China Morning Post, June 30, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=e4cfdd531bc22210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

北京对香港民主派弃怀柔政策改强硬立场 (Beijing Alters Policy toward Hong Kong's Pan-Democrats)
Radio France Internationale (via Radio France Internationale), June 29, 2009
http://www.rfi.fr/actucn/articles/114/article_14560.asp

North Korea
Traffickers Prey on North Korean Women Fleeing to China
Voice of America, June 29, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-29-voa25.cfm

Gender
China Launches Anti-Prostitution Drive
Agence France-Presse (via Yahoo! News), June 29, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090629/wl_asia_afp/chinasexcrimeprostitution

June 29, 2009

News
Children
In China, Parents Mourn Children Abducted by Traffickers
Reuters (via Yahoo! News), June 28, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090629/wl_nm/us_china_trafficking

Disasters
Shanghai Authorities Hold 9 in Connection with Building Collapse, Order Safety Checks
Associated Press, June 29, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-as-china-building-collapse,1,2363085.story

Green Dam
Companies Appeal to China to Drop Web Filter Plan
Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), June 27, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_as/as_china_internet

China's Internet Filter Rules Draw WTO Complaints
Reuters, June 26, 2009
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE55P4K720090626

Human Rights Defenders -- Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
國際律師協會函溫總 關注維權律師受打壓 (International Bar Association Writes Premier Wen on The Targetting of Rights Defense Lawyers)
Ming Pao, June 29, 2009
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090629/4/cxln.html

Related information:
China: Targeting of Defence Lawyers (国际律师协会（IBA）致函总理温家宝关注内地维权律师执业考核受阻)
Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, June 19, 2009
English: http://www.ibanet.org/Human_Rights_Institute/About_the_HRI/HRI_Activities/HRI_Media/HRI_Interventions/Int_China_June09.aspx
中文翻译: http://www.64tianwang.com/bencandy.php?fid=12&aid=4629

刘晓波被捕后首度会见律师 (Liu Xiaobo Meets with Lawyers for The First Time Since Arrest)
Radio France Internationale, June 27, 2009
http://www.rfi.fr/actucn/articles/114/article_14525.asp

Human Rights Defenders
Snitching for China Leads to Sorrow and Exile
Associated Press (via Google News), June 28, 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iq2FRnRWuIfqo-BqFTvCtWFX9MDQD99360QO0

For more information on the New Youth Study Group, see:
Case Update: Beijing Intellectuals Yang Zili and Zhang Honghai Released after Eight Years in Prison
Human Rights in China, March 12, 2009
http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/141758

Law
How China Justifies Empty Witness Chairs
Caijing Magazine, June 26, 2009
http://english.caijing.com.cn/2009-06-26/110189954.html

Original article in Chinese:
最该出庭的人在哪里
Caijing Magazine, June 22, 2009
http://magazine.caijing.com.cn/2009-06-21/110187313.html

China's Top Legislature Abolishes Eight Outdated, Redundant Laws
Xinhua News Agency, June 27, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/27/content_11609763.htm

Related information:
关于废止部分法律的决定 (Resolution on Abolishing Certain Legislation)
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, June 27, 2009
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/lfgz/zxfl/2009-06/27/content_1508553.htm

China Revises Statistics Law to Curb Data Falsification
Xinhua News Agency, June 27, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/27/content_11609707.htm

Related information:
中华人民共和国统计法 (Law on Statistics of the People's Republic of China) (revised)
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, June 27, 2009
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/lfgz/zxfl/2009-06/27/content_1508548.htm

China's Legislature Eyes Stability with Law on Rural Land Disputes Meditation
Xinhua News Agency, June 27, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/27/content_11609910.htm

Related information:
中华人民共和国农村土地承包经营纠纷调解仲裁法 (Law of the People's Republic of China on the Mediation and Arbitration of Rural Land Contract Management Disputes)
National People's Congress, June 27, 2009
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/lfgz/zxfl/2009-06/27/content_1508550.htm

佛山稔海25名村民因保护自己的合法权益而获刑 (25 Foshan Villagers Sentenced After Defending Right to Fair Compensation)
Radio Free Asia, June 28, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/foshan-06282009145236.html

Media
近日中国大陆互联网使用困难不断 (Chinese Netizens Encounter Difficulties Using Various Popular Online Sites over Past Few Days)
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/wangluo-06262009101145.html

Politics
Reshuffle Targets Judicial Corruption
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=86d4286e55722210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Protests and Petitions
港資廠民族群毆120死傷 驚動政治局 急遷走600新疆籍員工 (2 Dead, 118 Injured in Clash between Han and Newly-hired Uyghur Workers at Guangdong Toy Factory)
Ming Pao (via Yahoo! News), June 27, 2009
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090626/4/cwme.html

Rumormonger Held over South China Toy Factory Brawl
Xinhua News Agency, June 29, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/29/content_11616274.htm

Public Health
山东卫生厅调查“东明肿瘤” (Shandong Provincial Bureau of Health to Investigate Large Number of Tumors in Dongming County)
The Beijing News, June 26, 2009
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/guonei/2009/06-26/008@015815.htm