November 2, 2005

Top News of the Day

Detention- Wang Wanxing /UN
Report: China Dissident Freed From Asylum
AP via YahooNews.com, 02/11/2005
A New York-based rights group has reported that Wang Wanxing, a political dissident who was committed to police-run Ankang Hospital for 13 years for displaying a banner to commemorate the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations, has been freed and put on a flight to Germany to join his family there. The group said that the release was timed ahead of an upcoming visit to China by the U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights, Louise Arbour.

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News

Bilateral Ties
China Urges "Political Will" From Japan to Improve Bilateral Ties After Cabinet Reshuffle
People's Daily, November 01, 2005
http://english.people.com.cn/200511/01/eng20051101_218279.html

Stronger China Means Peace, Stability; Its Development Undermines No One - Hu
Forbes, November 01, 2005
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/11/01/afx2310
653.html

Children
Teenagers Speak for Children's Rights at Forum
Xinhuanet.com, November 01, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/01/content_3711063.htm

Corruption
Digging in Over Coal Mine Corruption
SCMP, 02/11/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2005-11/02/content_3718036.
htmZ9VX28BFE.html

Death Penalty
Vice Chief of Anshun Police Station Sentenced to Death for Murder
派出所副所长酒后5枪打死狱警续：终审被判死刑
Xinhuanet.com, 02/11/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2005-11/02/
content_3718036.htm

Female Officer in Beihai Social Security Bureau Sentenced to Death for Plotting Murder
广西北海市社保局女官员雇凶杀人 被判处死刑
EastDay.com, 01/11/2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/node81741/n
ode81762/node96391/userobject1ai1600337.html

Detention- Shi Tao (師濤) /Media-Internet
Privacy Watchdog Sees No Wrong in Yahoo! Disclosure
SCMP, 02/11/2005
http://hongkong.scmp.com/hknews/ZZZRK5Q7BFE.html

Detention-Wang Sen(王森) / Human Rights-Bilateral Ties
Activists Send Open Letter to Bush to Urge Release on Medical Parole of Detained Dissident Wang Sen
公开信促布什争取王森保外就医
Voice of America, 01/11/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-11-01-voa47.cfm

Economic Development
Update 1: China's Railways to Issue Some Shares
Forbes, November 01, 2005
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/ap/2005/11/01/ap2311816.html

Environment /Protests and Petitions
“Yancheng Cancer Village” in Jiangsu: Pollution Caused Hundreds of Deaths in 3 Years
江苏省盐城癌症村：污染致近3年上百人死于癌症
YahooNew.com (China), 02/11/2005
http://cn.news.yahoo.com/051101/1049/2fucd.html

Hukou
Rural Dwellers to be Granted Urban Rights
China Daily, 02/11/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/200
5-11/02/content_489873.htm

Listeners Comment on the Implementation of Hukou System and Labor Law in China
听众评中国户籍制度和劳动法实施
Voice of America, 01/11/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/m2005-11-01-voa58.cfm

Old System, New Realities
The Standard, 31/10/2005
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.a
sp?pp_cat=15&art_id=4565&sid=5200164
&con_type=1&d_str=20051031&sear_year=2005

Human Rights-Freedom of speech
Freedom of Speech is Still a Trial in China
The Age via China Digital News, 02/11/2005
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=32600

Human Rights Cases—Labor Activists
Bush Asked To Press Beijing To Parole Diabetic Activist
Dow Jones Newswires, November 01, 2005

Human Rights Cases-Journalists
The Soft Underbelly of Freedom
Wall Street Journal (Asia), November 01, 2005

Law-Administrative Law and Procedure
Dispute Leaves U.S. Executive In Chinese Legal Netherworld
New York Times, November 01, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/01/international/asia/01kidnap.html

Law-Juvenile justice
Amendments Underway on Legislation to Protect Juvenile Delinquents
未成年人保护法修订正在进行
Legal Daily, 02/11/2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/01/international/asia/01kidnap
.html/02/content_213723.htm

Why Do the Number of Juvenile Courts Keep Dropping?
少年法庭出现萎缩原因何在
Legal Daily, 01/11/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-11/02/content_213723.htm11/01/content_213268.htm

Media-Press freedom/censorship
American Members of Congress and Media Experts Urge China to Promote Press Freedom
美议员专家促中国扩大新闻自由
Voice of America, 01/11/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w200
5-11-01-voa54.cfm

Protests and Petitions
Police Officials Uses Violence to Stop Beijing Petitioners
北京上访形势越演越烈 各地方警察进京拦截访民
Radio Free Asia, 02/11/2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaod
ao/2005/11/01/shangfang/

Protests and Petitions - Resettlement
Oil Investors Tapped Out Of Wells; China Orders Private Drillers to Halt Desert Operations
Washington Post, November 01, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31
/AR2005103101741.htmldyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005
103101741.html

Public Health
New Rural Medical Co-Operatives Under Scrutiny
China Daily, 02/11/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-11/02/content_
489869.htm

China Pledges Transparency Over Bird Flu
The Guardian, November 01, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,14207,1606149,00.html

Demand Soars For Fruit Used In Bird-Flu Drug
Wall Street Journal, November 01, 2005

Public Health-HIV AIDS /STDs
Official HIV Estimate May be Overstated
SCMP, 02/11/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZVF4Q7BFE.html

Xinjiang
China's farmer army defends forgotten frontier
Reuters via YahooNews.com, November 01, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051101/lf_nm/china_paramilitary_dc

Xinjiang-Religion
FEATURE-China's Muslim Uighurs "don't dare talk"
Reuters Alert Net, November 01, 2005
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=45594