The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

August 16, 2005

Top news of the day

Media - Press freedom/censorship
Freedom row at China Youth Daily
SCMP, 16/08/2005
In a open letter, an editor of China Youth Daily, a state media, criticised the newspaper of adopting a new appraisal system which pegs journalists' bonuses to praise by party and government leaders. The system would restrain editorial freedom.
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZCYDI2ECE.html




Xinjiang / Religion
Teacher and 37 students detained for reading Koran in China
AFP via YahooNews.com, 15/08/2005
A Uighur woman and 37 of her students, most of whom were primary and secondary school pupils were detailed by the Xinjiang authorities for studying the Koran. Police confiscated 23 copies of the Koran, 56 textbooks on the Koran, and a hand-written manuscript and other religious materials.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050815/wl_
asia_afp/chinaxinjiangreligionmuslim_050815064356





News

Children
NGO grows fruit trees to support street children to go to school
自 種 棗 樹 籌 款 10 月 才 有 收 成--北 京 逾 百 街 童 等 錢 開 學
Apple Daily, 16/08/2005
http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?
sec_id=15335&iss_id=20050816&art_id=5141215

Detention – Wang Bingzhang (王炳章)
Dissident 'exonerated' in embassy bomb plot
SCMP, 16/08/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZIGWI2ECE.html

Environment
China addressing pollution issue
China Daily, 16/08/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/16/content
_469458.htm

China choked by pollution but signs emerge it is addressing the issue
AFP via YahooNews.com, August 15 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050816/
sc_afp/chinapollution_050816015910

China picks possible site for Guangdong Nuclear Plant
Business Week Online, 16/08/2005
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8C0NB981.h
tm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db

Environment - Water
Water treatment for Nan Shui Bei Diao to take 100 years?
南水北调水质治理需一百年？
The Beijing News, 16/08/2005
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/2005/0816/05@010
839.html

Hukou / Population
How can we judge internal mobility of people with the standard of cross-country migration?
怎能用国际移民标准看待国内人口流动
China Youth Daily, 16/08/2005
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-08/16/content_49243.htm

Labor - Employment market and income / SOEs
148 redundant SOE workers lose social security
148名国企退职职工失去社会保障
China Youth Daily, 16/08/2005
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-08/16/content_49258.htm

Labor / Law
Zhejiang Supreme Court finally accepts a labour rights case that had been dismissed twice by local courts
浙江省总工会代理的一起维权案终获法院支持
People's Daily, 16/08/2005
http://legal.people.com.cn/GB/42733/3618540.html

Law - Court system
The expectation to pre-hearing system proposal that allows judges to decide on cases with greater independence
对法官独立办案的制度期许
Legal Daily, 16/08/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2005-08/16/content_181
514.htm

Media - Press freedom/censorship
China: Acting To Keep Out 'Harmful Information'
Radio Free Europe, 14/08/2005
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/08/edd58feb-5e56-
4146-bec4-faaab62600d8.html

Police – Abuse / Rural Issues
The power of security officers in rural villages should be regulated to avoid abuses
农村治安员行为应予规范
Legal Daily, 16/08/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2005-08/16/content_181497.htm

Population - Gender imbalance / Public Health - HIV AIDS /STDs
China: gender imbalance of newborns widens and number of aids orphans on the rise
中国出生人口性别比继续拉大 艾滋孤儿数量增多
China News Agency, 16/08/2005
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/news/2005/2005-08-16/26/612
303.shtml

Population / Environment
Population growth leads experts to fear for environment
China Daily, 16/08/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/16/content
_469323.htm

Poverty - Rural poverty / Government - Fiscal
Income tax changes may lessen income disparity
个税法修改有利于遏制贫富差距扩大
EastDay.com, 16/08/2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node79904/userobject1ai1349637.html

China to amend personal income tax law
Xinhua, 16/08/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/16/content
_469424.htm

Poverty
Widen the income gap: the rich makes huge profit from buying state properties at cheap price
中国贫富差距拉大 富豪廉价买国有资产一夜暴富
EastDay.com, 16/08/2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957
/node37979/node79904/userobject1ai1348885.html

Borders/Territories - Taiwan
KMT legislators depart for China
By Shih Hsiu-Chuan, Tapei Times, August 16, 2005
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/08/
16/2003267918

China slams new proposals on Taiwan
Xinhua, 16/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/16/content_336
0850.htm

Borders/Territories - Tibet
Tibet to have one more airport
Xinhua, 16/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/16/content_3362
840.htm