October 20, 2005

News

Children-Children trafficking
China Auction Web Site Offers Babies for Sale
Reuters via YahooNews.com, 20/10/2005
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051020/wr_nm/
china_baby_dc;_ylt=Aj7zlQW_qPeakcf5C
Xhk4vgBxg8F;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMT
Q4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA—

Children-Adoption
Families That Adopt Orphans Find Love Doesn't Come Easily
家庭助养 想说爱你不容易
Legal Daily, 20/10/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-10/20
/content_207866.htm

Death Penalty
Death for 7 Leaders of Child Theft Network
SCMP, 20/10/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ55RL6UEE.html

Death Penalty, Forced Confessions and Harvesting Organs of Executed Prisoners: German and Chinese Scholars Break the Taboo in Open Discussion
死刑、刑讯和取死囚器官：中德学者北京破禁忌
Chinesenewsnet.com, 19/10/2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews
/SinoNews/Mainland/2005_10_19_14_
47_58_427.html

Detention-Peng Ming(彭明)/State Security-Terrorism
Peng Ming's Letter of Self Defense
本台独家报道：彭明自我辩护书
Radio Free Asia, 20/10/2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/
2005/10/18/pengmin/

Detention-Zhang Lin (張林)
Rights Activist: Chinese Lawyers, Where is Your Conscience?
赵达功：中国律师的良心何在？
Peacehall, 18/10/2005
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/pubvp
/2005/10/200510181754.shtml

Human Rights-Bilateral ties
They Say, We Say: the Two Views of Political Reform
SCMP, 20/10/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZD5RL6UEE.html

Law
How Valid Is it to Pass Verdicts Based on Precedents?
先例判决推广价值有多大
Legal Daily, 20/10/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-10
/20/content_207867.htm

Law-Legal reform
Reform of Criminal Procedural Law Breaks New Ground
刑事诉讼法修改形成新说
Legal Daily, 20/10/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-10/2
0/content_207950.htm

Media-Press freedom/censorship
China Ranks 9th Worst Country for Protecting Press Freedom in 2005
中國2005新聞自由全球倒數第九
BBC.com (Chinese), 20/10/2005
http://news8.thdo.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/ne
wsid_4350000/newsid_4359000/4359058
.stm

Media-Internet
Concerns Raised Over Liu Xiaobo's Open Letter Blaming Yahoo! for Shi
Tao's Detention
刘晓波批雅虎公开信引起关注
Radio Free Asia, 20/10/2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao
/2005/10/19/liuxiaobo/

Politics
White Paper Just a Big Lie: Activists
SCMP, 20/10/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZEVC9ETEE.html

Analysis of White Paper on Building Political Democracy in China
评析中国民主政治建设白皮书
Voice of America, 19/10/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2005-10-19-voa57.cfm

Poverty
Is China Headed for a Gini 'Red Alert'?
Asia Times Online, 20/10/2005
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_B
usiness/GJ20Cb01.html

Spread the Wealth
Los Angeles Times, 19/10/2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-china19oct19,0,3378309.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
china19oct19,0,3378309.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

Protests and Petitions
CHINA: Journalists Divided Over Condemnation
Asia Media via China Digital News, 20/10/2005
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=31786

Protests and Petitions
Violent End to Dispute Over Land
SCMP, 20/10/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZFCB9ETEE.html

What Is the Cause of Rural Unrest in China?
中国农村抗议活动根源何在？
Voice of America, 20/10/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2
005-10-19-voa80.cfm

Villagers in Guangdong's Taishi Slam Official Verdict on Standoff
Radio Free Asia, 19/10/2005
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/social/200
5/10/19/china_taishi/

Religion-Christianity
Chinese Bishop Writes Letter to Thank Pope for Invitation to Conference
中国主教致函罗马教皇谢赴会邀请
Voice of America, 19/10/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-1
0-19-voa54.cfm