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.

Friday, August 05, 2005

August 5, 2005

Top news of the day

Detention-Ching Cheong(程翔)
China Charges Reporter With Spying
AP via Yahoonews.com, 05/08/2005
Ching Cheong(程翔), the Straits Times journalist under detention since April, has been formally charged by mainland government with spying for Taiwan,yet the details of further steps were not told.
The official new agency reported Ching ,using the name of "Chen Yuanchun", brought "a great deal of information about China's political,economic and especially military affairs, including some classified as 'top secret' or 'confidential,' and passed it to the Taiwan intelligence," in return, several million of Hong Kong dollars was rewarded.
Taiwan Mainland Affair Council has yet to response to the spying claim.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050805/ap_on_re_as/
china_detained_reporter;_ylt=ApXmZy4o1g712c6kmX
s6ZtsBxg8F;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl


News

Border Territories/Issues-Taiwan
Taiwan Leaders' Separatist Remarks Criticized
Xinhua, China Daily, August 5, 2005
http://china.org.cn/english/China/137542.htm#

Children-Adoption
50,000 children in China has been adopted by foreigners
5万中国儿童被外国人领养
People's Daily, 05/08/2005
http://edu.people.com.cn/GB/1054/3594907.html

Environment-Natural Resources
New sources to ease Beijing energy shortage
China Daily, August 5, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/05/content
_466479.htm

Gender-Domestic violence
Experts call on more legal support to women who opted for self-defence in domestic violence situations
专家呼吁对妇女“以暴抗暴”案件提供法律帮助
China News Agency, 04/08/2005
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/news/2005/2005-08-04/
26/608126.shtml

Government-Governance and accountability
Guangdong gov't to go transparent
Xinhuanet.com, 05/08/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/
05/content_3311911.htm

Hong Kong-Politics
New top US diplomat in HK wants more democracy
AP, August 5, 2005
http://hongkong.scmp.com/hknews/ZZZ9VLHRZBE.html

Lau urges pragmatic approach on suffrage
China Daily, August 5, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/05/content
_466448.htm

Human Rights-Bilateral ties
Prerequisite for joining the global community: China should keep a distance from tyrannical regimes
融入國際社會的大前提：中國必須避跟暴政為伍
Asia Times Online, 04/08/2005
http://www.atchinese.com/2005/08/0804rep2.htm

Labor-Other
Rise in income scores double-digit growth
China Daily, August 5, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/05/content
_466486.htm

Law/Hukou
Different Hukou entitled to different level of compensation: Is the law offering fair?
“同命不同价” 考问法律公平
Chinesenewsnet.com, 05/08/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/SinoN
ews/Mainland/xhw_2005_08_04_22_55_22_953.html

Law-wrongful convictions (cases)
What is the legal bases for Gansu Minqu Law Court's "generosity"?--30,000 yuan compensation for one day of wrongful detention
错拘一天赔偿3万，依据何在
China Youth Daily, 05/08/2005
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-08/05/content_42832.htm

Media-Censorship
China tightens culture rules, bars new foreign TV licenses
AP, August 5, 2005
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/detail.asp?ID=6646
2&GRP=D

Migrant worker-Abuses
Unpaid workers beaten up
SCMP, 05/08/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZFL6JCYBE.html

Olympics
B.C. Firm Scores Big in Beijing Olympics
Globe and Mail, August 5, 2005
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.200508
05.gtyoung05/BNStory/einsider/

The Olympics countdown - three years of human rights reform?
Amnesty International, August 5, 2005
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=90EA73796F7
83C018025704B00527B41

Police-Abuse (cases)
Drug rehabilitation centre inmates faced with sometimes deadly abuse
SCMP, 05/08/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZO1KICYBE.html

Political Dissidents/Organizing-Petitions and Protests
Chinese villagers, police clash; 47 arrested
Reuters via ABC News, August 5, 2005
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1010851

Public Health
Review of 2 decades of health care reform in China
中国医改20年
Nanfang Weekend, 04/08/2005
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/zm/20050804/xw
/zmxwzt/200508040010.asp

WHO Recommends More Pig Disease Tests
AP via Newsday, August 5, 2005
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-china-pig-
disease,0,6450542.story?coll=sns-ap-health-headlines

Reforms-Corruption
Guangdong gov't to go transparent
China Daily, August 5, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/05/content
_466481.htm

Reforms-Social
Hospitals overcharge patients for profits
China Daily, August 5, 2005
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/05/content
_466465.htm

Report highlights sorry state of China's health sector
AFP via Yahoo! News, August 5, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050805/
wl_asia_afp/healthchinapublic_050805085422

Resettlement/Social Security
Guangdong government to draft regulations ensuring social security for peasants who were being forceful evicted
粤被征地农民将享社保 广东正在草拟《办法》
Chinesenewsnet.com, 05/08/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/SinoNews/
Mainland/xhw_2005_08_04_08_55_19_477.html

Society
Public opinion on the root cause of social instability in China
听众谈社会不稳定的根源
Voice of America, 04/08/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/m2005-08-04-voa72.cfm

Society-Suicide
Mental illnesses a leading factor
SCMP, 05/08/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZWL6JCYBE.html

WTO-Human rights/Hong Kong-Human rights
Think-tank plots WTO anti-protest action
SCMP, 05/08/2005
http://hongkong.scmp.com/hknews/ZZZO2KICYBE.html