News
Environment
Watchdog is still a paper tiger, green bodies claim
SCMP, May 6, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZIS5ZFZ7E.html
Environment – Water
Water-saving more urgent than ever
Xinhuanet.com, May 6, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/06/content_29215
04.htm
Gender – marriage
New regulation guarantees of privacy on marriage and divorce
民政部下发通知:结婚离婚登记要尊重个人隐私
EastDay.com, May 6, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node60160/userobject1ai1072799.html
Divorce is the major issue for enquiry, according to women’s rights association
离婚咨询成为妇女维权热线的热点
People’s Daily, May 5, 2005
http://legal.people.com.cn/GB/42732/3367280.html#
Gender Issues - Reproductive health
Hospitals offer luxury packages for maternal delivery reflecting the increasing income gap between the poor and the rich
从「天价产房」看中国贫富悬殊
Chinesenewsnet.com, May 6, 2005
http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/Opinion/2005_
5_5_16_26_19_351.html
Gender Issues - Law
Legal Aid for Women’s Right Association(全國婦聯法律幫助中心) vows to help defending women’s rights
全国妇联法律帮助中心将采取多种方式帮妇女维权
Xinhuanet.com, May 5, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2005-05/05/content_2919357.htm
Human rights – Human rights defenders
Fêted labour activist longs to return home
SCMP, May 6, 2005
http://hongkong.scmp.com/hknews/ZZZA8O9HZ7E.html
June 4th –EU arms ban
China presses on arms embargo, pressed on NKorea at EU-Asia meet
YahooNews.com, May 6, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050506/wl
_asia_afp/asemjapanchinaeu
Public health – HIV Aids
Free testing to detect HIV cases
SCMP, May 6, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZAT5ZFZ7E.html
Fujian teenager insists to raise fund to help Aids families
民间防艾滋青年:我坚持募集现金资助艾滋家庭
EastDay.com, May 6, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node60160/userobject1ai1072475.html
Society – Ethnic minority
Glimpses of hope in the new China
CNN.com, May 6, 2005
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/05/eyeonchin
a.stangrant/index.html