Detention – Ching Cheong
Hong Kong Reporter Being Held By China
The Washington Post, May 30, 2005
Ching Cheong, a prominent Hong Kong journalist and the Chief China correspondent of Singapore’s Straits Times, was reported under detention in China after he had been taken away by police in Guangzhou on April 22, where he was scheduled to obtain a collection of secret interviews with a Communist leader purged for opposing the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement. The authorities warned the Ching’s wife and the newspaper not to disclose Ching’s detention.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/
05/29/AR2005052900986.html
News
Children
Focus on children's emotions, say experts
SCMP, May 28, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZFTZURX8E.html
Gender Issues – Domestic violence
Legislation on domestic violence to take effective in August 1 in Liaoning
今年8月1日起 遼寧省立法預防和制止家庭暴力
CRI Online, May 29, 2005
http://big5.chinabroadcast.cn/gate/big5/gb.chinabroadcast.cn/
3821/2005/05/29/381@563116.htm
Human Rights – bilateral ties
Human rights worries will not derail trade talks, says Clark
The New Zealand Herald, May 30, 2005
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=101
28235
June 4th –Tiananmen Mother Campaign
Victims' families demand Beijing face up to June 4
SCMP, May 29, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZZIX4EA9E.html
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Tiananmen Mothers send open letter to President Hu Jintao for June 4th review
天安门母亲就六四致胡锦涛公开信
Voice of America, May 29, 2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-05-29-voa1
8.cfm
June 4th Families Charge Double Standard Re Nanking Massacre
HRIC Press Release, May 27, 2005
http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/press?revision%
5fid=22530&item%5fid=22529
Labour
Budget funding for re-employment up 31%
Xinhuanet.com, May 28, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/28/content_30
12963.htm
Land Policies
Declining in land resources causes tensions of land use in Beijing
北京土地资源日渐减少，用地紧张
Voice of America, May 29, 2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-05-29-voa22.cfm
Law
Torture by judicial personnel is not allowed: official
Xinhuanet.com, May 27, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/27/content_3012
614.htm
Media - Press freedom
Big Brother's book ban blues
The Standard, May 28-29, 2005
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GE28Jp0
3.html
China is amongst the most repressive regimes on media control, according to World Association of Newspaper (WAN) latest report
世界报业协会：中国是压制新闻自由最严重国家之一
Radio Free Asia, May 29, 2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/xinwen/2005/05/29/xinwenziyou/
Media - Internet
Great Firewall of China puts websites under pressure
SCMP, May 29, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ2TN5EA9E.html
China in drive to register all Internet sites
AFP via the Independent Online, May 28, 2005
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=
qw1117268462827C553
Migrant Workers
Chinese migrant building workers join trade unions
China Daily, May 29, 2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-05/29/content
_446672.htm
Olympic
Thousand of homes destroyed to make way for Olympics tourists
Times, May 26, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1628199-
3,00.html
Police – Abuse
Police told to stop using torture
SCMP, May 28, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZHI8CSX8E.html
Poverty
Minister in rare admission of the scale of poverty
SCMP, May 29, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZLHJ5EA9E.html
Poverty / Ethnic minority
Balance of support and unity will help minorities, says Hu
SCMP, May 28, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZFL9HSX8E.html
Public health
Poor regions get advanced medical equipment
Xinhuanet.com, May 29, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/29/content_3017
906.htm
Hong Kong
Wolves in sheep's clothing
SCMP, May 28, 2005
http://focus.scmp.com/focusnews/ZZZ2RYURX8E.html
Hundreds of Hong Kong people join peaceful march to commemorate 16th anniversary of June 4th
香港上千名市民发起游行 纪念六四十六周年
Radio Free Asia, May 29, 2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/xinwen/2005/05/29/6.4/
