May 21-23, 2005

News

Death Penalty
Prisoners on death row allowed seeing family before execution in Liaoning
辽宁省辽阳市首次允许死刑犯临刑前会见家属
YahooNews.com, May 22, 2005
http://cn.news.yahoo.com/050521/808/2c1j8.html

Environment
Renewable energy and China
可再生能源和中国
Voice of America, May 22, 2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-05-22-voa40.cfm

Gender Issues
Emancipation from the masculine myth
SCMP, May 22, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZW2QBSX8E.html

Government call off the gimmick of “Feast on naked women”
中國禁止"人體盛"筵席
BBC, May 22, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4570000/new
sid_4571200/4571229.stm

Gender Issues – Discrimination (sexual harassment)
Sexual harassment-A growing social problem
China Daily, May 20, 2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/20/cont
ent_444316.htm

Human rights-Human rights defenders - Guo Guoting (郭国汀)
Rights defender Guo Guoting arrives Canada safely for academic conference
郭国汀律师抵达加拿大
Boxcn.com, May 21, 2005
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2005/05/2005
05211035.shtml

Labour-Industrial accidents
Three injured in explosion in Liaoning chemical factory
遼寧遼陽化工廠生產車間劇烈爆炸3人受傷
CRI Online, May 23, 2005
http://big5.chinabroadcast.cn/gate/big5/gb.chinabroadcast.cn/
3821/2005/05/23/106@555583.htm

Mine blast blamed on excessive production
SCMP, May 23, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZOSRBSX8E.html

Labour – work conditions and safety
Long hours, low pay add up to tough life for city youth: poll
SCMP, May 23, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZX1PBSX8E.html

Media – Press freedom
Reporter's fingers chopped off
SCMP, May 21, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZQAGURX8E.html

• Related news:
  Chinese journalists’ lives under threat
  中国记者受威胁人身安全引人注目
  Voice of America, May 22, 2005
  http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2005-05-22-voa31.cfm
  
  

Media-Internet
Mugabe's Net spies go on China shopping trip
SCMP, May 22, 2005
http://world.scmp.com/worldnews/ZZZTL2URX8E.html

Ready or Not, China Gets Blogged
Wired news via China National News, May 19, 2005
http://story.chinanationalnews.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/9366300fc9
319e9b/id/114c5e2316f38e4f/

Banned websites remain popular despite government pressures
何山：越禁越热的十大被封锁网站
Boxcn.com, May 21, 2005
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2005/05/200505
211211.shtml

Police - Abuse
U.S Businessman “Disappears”, Forced to Sign Over Family Home in China Dispute
Radio Free Asia, May 19, 2005
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2005/05/19/china_apex/

Police – Corruption
Police detained for taking pickpockets' bribes
SCMP, May 23, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZV64URX8E.html

Population Policies - Urbanization
Expert expects floating population to drop after 2008
专家预测北京流动人口零八年后开始下降
Chinesenewsnet.com, May 22, 2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/SinoNews/
Mainland/cna_2005_05_21_22_10_23_060.html

Public health – HIV Aids
High-risk HIV threat for gays in Shenzhen
SCMP, May 23, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZJORGSX8E.html

Public Health - Mental Health
China needs more soul savers
China Daily, May 21, 2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/21/cont
ent_444590.htm

Society
Experts: How to understand the changes of social structure in China
如何认识把握当今中国社会结构的变化
China Youth Daily, May 23, 2005
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-05/23/content_7762.htm

Museum's dark lessons rile authorities
SCMP, May 22, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ03QBSX8E.html

Hong Kong
Human Rights Watchdog Condemns Hong Kong Over Gay Rights
China National News, May 22, 2005
http://story.chinanationalnews.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/9366300fc9319
e9b/id/b95bcfb366af627d/

Racial discrimination law must protect the rights of mainland migrants
種族歧視立法必須保護內地新移民
Hong Kong Economic Journal (Page 20), May 23, 2005

Tibet
Exiled Tibetans and Uighurs combine forces in Washington to strive for freedom and democracy in China
流亡藏维族人士联合争取民主自由
Voice of America, May 20, 2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-05-20-voa65.cfm