News
Children / Society
Children are available for rental when begging becomes a profession
当乞讨成为一种职业 儿童就可以出租
Dajiyuan.com,17/08/2005
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/5/8/16/n1020286.htm
Environment - Water
Fuzhou farmers irrigate vegetable fields with sewage water of nearby factories
福 州 工 廠 廢 水 種 菜
Apple Daily, 17/08/2005
http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm
?sec_id=15335&iss_id=20050817&art_id=5144133
Environment - Pollution
American e-waste finds its way to India, China: Study
AP via Press Trust of India, 17/08/ 2005
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=52898
Food Security / Disasters
One quarter of China's farmland hit by pests
AFP via YahooNews.com, 17/08/2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050817/wl_
asia_afp/chinaagriculturericegrain_050817033426
Environment - Natural Resources
Super large gas reserve discovered in China's Sichuan Province
People’s Daily Online, August 17, 2005
http://english.people.com.cn/200508/17/print20050817_203064.html
Gender - Marriage
Chinese women over 30 in hard hunt for Mr Right
China Daily, 17/08/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content
_469678.htm
Gender - Sexuality
Gay college course start of nation's lesson
China Daily, 17/08/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content
_469742.htm
Gender - Women trafficking / Children - Children trafficking
Over 50,000 women and children saved from trafficking gangs in the past 4 years
4年间全国公安机关解救被拐卖妇女儿童5万多人
People's Daily, 17/08/2005
http://legal.people.com.cn/GB/42735/3621792.html
Government
China studying Western groups promoting democracy
Knight Ridder via YahooNew.com, 17/08/2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/
20050816/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_china_democracy_wa_1
Expert: Citizens' expanded role vital
China Daily, 17/08/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/17/content
_469684.htm
China commentary on Hu sparks 'personality cult' row
By Benjamin Kang Lim, Reuters, 17/08/ 2005
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-08-17T145630Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-212905-1.xml
Human Rights
Hit squad 'sent to kill China defector'
The Australian, 17/08/2005 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16290274%255E1702,00.html
Labor - Industrial accidents
Cost of China's Coal: Miners' Lives
LA Times, 17/08/2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-coal
16aug16,1,510793.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Labor - Employment market and income
Unpaid wages still haunt migrant workers
Xinhuanet.com, 17/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/17/content_
3365321.htm
Law - Legal profession
Government attempts to draft regulations to protect the rights of judges
拟启动立法程序保护法官
Legal Daily, 17/08/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2005-08/17/content_182
149.htm
Law - Legal reform
People's Juror system help addressing the issue of judicial justice, useful or not?
解决司法不公陪审员作用有多大
Legal Daily, 17/08/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2005-08/17/content_182
150.htm
Shanghai courts give legal aid to poor
Xinhua, 17/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/17/content_3364783.htm
Media
New rules of China Youth Daily: bonus points given for praising the leaders
中国青年报条例：领导表扬多加分
Voice of America, 16/08/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-08-16-voa44.cfm
Media - Press freedom/censorship
China Youth Daily chief editor responds to Li Datong's open letter while CCP blocks web posting
李大同公开信 中宣部封杀 总编回复
Dajiyuan.com, 17/08/2005
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/5/8/16/n1020737.htm
Population - Aging population / Social Security
Aging problem accelerates in Guangdong as the over 60 age group reaches 8.8 million, survey reports
广东人口老龄化加快 60岁以上人口已达880多万
EastDay.com, 17/08/2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node80204/userobject1ai1353368.html
Protests and Petitions
People have the rights to make petitions, but endless petitioning would hold up massive government resources at the expense of public interest, says official
上访不能损害他人利益 终结无序信访的政治背景
People's Daily, 17/08/2005
http://legal.people.com.cn/GB/42731/3622160.html
Protests and Petitions / Politics
Circular bans soldiers from joining protests
SCMP, 17/08/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZWBII2ECE.html
Protests and Petitions / Labor - Industrial accidents
Mine boss held for attack on villagers
SCMP, 17/08/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ0CII2ECE.html
Protests and Petitions / UN
Public urged to sign their petitions to senior UN Human Rights Commissioner for the release of political dissidents
联合国人权专员访华 民间征签递公开信
Radio Free Asia, 17/08/2005
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/5/8/17/n1021244.htm
Public Health / Children
Half of rural children died of illness never get proper medical treatment
我国因病死亡的农村儿童中仍有一半未得到治疗
People's Daily, 17/08/2005
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/3621804.html
Religion
Faith flourishes in an arid wasteland
SCMP, 17/08/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZLTHI2ECE.html
Religion - Christianity
Hong Kong religion groups raise public concerns about the conditions of underground church member who has fleet to Thailand
港宗教团体吁 关注中国逃泰基督徒
Voice of America via Dajiyuan.com, 17/08/2005
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/5/8/17/n1021107.htm
Religion / Human Rights - Bilateral ties
Delegation of United States Commission on International Religious Freedom visits China for the first time
美国际宗教委员会代表团首次访华
Voice of America, 17/08/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-08-16-voa71.cfm
Tibet / Gender - Sex workers
FEATURE - Nun or prostitute? Tibet's women face few choices
Reuters via YahooNew.com, 17/08/2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050817
/india_nm/india_212870
Public Health
China denies nationwide outbreak of anthrax
Xinhua, 17/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/17/content_3367056.htm
Women - Women's Rights
Four women who shape Beijing: As capitalism booms in China, women now make up almost 20 percent of the new entrepreneurs.
By Amelia Newcomb, CSMonitor.com, 16/08/2005
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0816/p10s01-woap.html
Chinese Woman Seeks Damages After Roughed Up by Homeland Security
By Eugenia Chien, Sing Tao Daily, 11/08/2005
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=d7585c31ada6b0c9fa17ca2ee6427e05
Premier stresses protecting rights of women, children
Xinhua, 17/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/16/content_3363408.htm