July 26, 2005

News

Bilaterals-US/China
US Report on China military power analyzed
People’s Daily Online, July 26, 2005
http://english.people.com.cn/200507/26/text20050726_1983
68.html

Bilaterals-Other
Mustard gas victims take case to Japan
China Daily, July 26, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/26/content
_463263.htm

Zimbabwe leader meets China's Hu as aid eyed
Reuters, July 26, 2005
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK352315.htm

Border Territories/Issues-North Korea
Food crisis in North Korea worsens, refugees in China swell
Reuters, July 26, 2005
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNe
ws&storyID=2005-07-26T075504Z_01_SPI628485_RTRUKO
C_0_KOREA-NORTH-FOOD.xml

6-party talks open, host China urges flexibility
China Daily, July 26, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/26/content_
463195.htm

Border Territories/Issues-Taiwan
Armed China risks collapse like Soviet Union: Taiwan president
AFP, July 26, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ1KPZRFBE.html

Party rift worsens for new KMT chairman
SCMP, July 26, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ2QD0SFBE.html

Taiwan says China missile build-up a big threat
Reuters, July 26, 2005
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews
&storyID=2005-07-26T072112Z_01_SPI626458_RTRUKOC_0_
TAIWAN-CHINA.xml

Death Penalty
China executes perpetrator of 2003 Fukuoka murders
Kyodo News, 26/07/2005
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=193924

Detention- Yu Huafeng (喻 華 峰)
Guangdong High Court refuses to review the case of former Nanfang journalist
喻 華 峰 案 法 院 拒 絕 再 審
Apple Daily, 26/07/2005
http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?
sec_id=15335&iss_id=20050726&art_id=5

Environment-Natural Resources
China prepares to build world's first 1,000-kv electricity transmission line
Xinhua, July 26, 2005
http://english.people.com.cn/200507/26/print20050726_198387.html

Unocal 'almost backed China bid'
BBC, July 26, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4715473.stm

Environment -Water
China about to establish water rights system in order to solve the regional
disequilibrium over supply and demand of water
中国将建立国家水权制度 解决水资源的供需矛盾
Chinesenewsnet.com, 25/07/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/SinoNews/
Mainland/zxs_2005-07-25_603573.shtml

Gansu province: reform on water rights to ease water shortage
落实科学发展观 甘肃张掖水权改革应对用水危机
Chinesenewsnet.com, 25/07/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/SinoNews/Mainland/
xhw_2005_07_25_04_55_28

Labor-Employment market and income
Beijing High Court to set up summary process to fast track wage claims of migrant workers
北京法院建立处理拖欠农民工工资案件快速通道
Chinesenewsnet.com, 26/07/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/SinoNews/Mainland
/xhw_2005_07_25_04_55_25

Law-Legal reform
Beijing High Court issued eight regulations to protect lawyers' rights in performing their duties
进审判区免安检 北京高院保障律师八项执业权利
China News Agency, 26/07/2005
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/news/2005/2005-07-25/26/6036
21.shtml

Media
Internal Reference Materials in China
EastSouthWestNorth via China Digital News, 26/07/2005
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050725_2.htm

Media-Press freedom/censorship
Public debates democracy and press freedom
听众论民主和新闻自由
Voice of America, 25/07/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/m2005-07-25-voa47.cfm

Olympics
China: Let thin clients bloom for Olympics
CNET, July 26, 2005
http://news.com.com/2061-10792_3-5804659.html?part=rss&tag=
5804659&subj=news

Protests and Petitions
Chongqing government regulations give petitioners’ right to
demand public hearings if dissatisfied with the petitioning outcomes
重庆规定不满信访结果可以要求举行听证
Chinesenewsnet.com, 25/07/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/SinoNews/
Mainland/xhw_2005_07_25_03_55_16

Public Health
Bacteria that killed 19 people identified
SCMP, July 26, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZZ830SFBE.html

China halts pork exports from 2 cities
China Daily, July 26, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/26/content_4
63193.htm

Lab suspends H5N1 bird flu work on new China rules
Reuters, July 26, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050726/sc_nm
/birdflu_hongkong_china_dc_1

Public Health-Mental health
Survey: Young suffer from depression most
China Daily, 25/07/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/25/content_4
62924.htm

Reforms-Elections
China's ethnic region experiments with democratic election
Xinhua, July 26, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/26/content_.htm

Resettlement
China's "land problem" mainly related to the unreasonable compensation for land takings
文榕:中国“土地问题”
Chinesenewsnet.com, 26/07/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/Opinion/2005
_7_25_14_54_49_957.html

How to equitably protect peasants’ rights in land takings?
征地之痛何时休 如何公平合理保障农民利益
Chinesenewsnet.com, 25/07/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/SinoNews/
Mainland/xhw_2005_07_25_02_55_08

The Insider story of land resettlement case: the lawless undertakings by a local official
拆迁干部自曝拆迁造假黑幕 想咋整就咋整
EastDay.com, 25/07/2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957
/node37979/node75656/userobject1

Rural Issues-Poverty
Agricultureex-model grapples for new 'spirit'
China Daily, July 26, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/26/content_4
63265.htm

Rural Issues-rural development
Statistics shows a total of 14,340,000 rural residents received Social Security Assistance and Minimum Living Payments, up 16 per cent when compare with same period of the prior year
上半年中国农村定期救济和最低生活保障力度加大
China News Agency, 25/07/2005
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/news/2005/2005-07-25/26/603
652.shtml

State Security-State secrets
Bird flu research suspended after leaks warning
SCMP, 26/07/2005
http://hongkong.scmp.com/hknews/ZZZNID0SFBE.html