Top news of the day
Media - Internet
MII Plans To Block Websites And Server IP Addresses
China Tech News via China Digital News, June 17, 2005
According to the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), 30% of websites in China who had yet to registered for an Internet Content Provider identification number would face closure as the deadline for registration due. Websites share the same IP address with the unregistered site would also be blocked.
http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type
=news&id=2713
News
Bilaterals - Other
Israel apologizes to U.S. over China arms sale
Reuters, June 19, 2005
Israel publicly apologized to the United States on Sunday over arms exports to China that have drawn criticism from Washington and strained U.S.-Israeli security ties.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&story
ID=8830043
Two Israelis Kidnapped in China
Epoch Times, Jun 19, 2005
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-6-19/29642.html
Beijing Declaration of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
Xinhuanet, June 19, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/19/content_3104
866.htm
Corporate responsibility/Environment
State Environmental Protection Administration: enterprises also have social responsibilities in building a “green” society
环保总局：企业要承担绿色社会责任
China Youth Daily, June 20, 2005
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-06/20/content_20455.htm
Corruption
‘Extravagant meal costing 7,000 yuan’ exposed corrupted financial black-holes in Henan Kaifeng township government
村干部一顿吃掉7000 村级财务黑洞有多深
EastDay.com, June 20, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node69184/userobject1ai1194436.html
Death penalty
Yanan Party Secretary sentenced to death for killing township governor
延安一原乡党委书记被执行死刑
Legal Daily, June 20, 2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-06/20/content_157
029.htm
Environment – Water
Yellow River water will be rationed
SCMP, June 18, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZUBKZFA9E.html
Environment - Pollution
China faces looming environmental crisis
China Daily, June 20, 2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/20/content
_452838.htm
Government – Governance and accountability
China’s New Frontiers: Tests of Democracy and Dissent
The New York Times, June 19, 2005
http://www.howardwfrench.com/archives/2005/06/19/chinas_
new_frontiers_tests_of_democracy_and_dissent/
Development and Reform Committee rows to correct seven unreasonable administration fee structures in rural areas
发改委将大力治理乱收费 清理行政审批等7方面
EastDay.com, June 20, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node69184/userobject1ai1193548.html
Self-governance system in villages dooms to fail if no redress system for violation of self-governing power in place in law
基层村民自治权呼唤司法救济
Legal Daily, June 20, 2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2005-06/20/content_1569
29.htm
Human rights – Bilateral ties
No sell-out of rights for trade, says Canberra
SCMP, June 20, 2005
http://asia.scmp.com/asianews/ZZZQ6O5F4AE.html
Labour – work safety and conditions
Shortage of safety expertise in mines 'hits crisis point'
SCMP, June 18, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZVKR4GA9E.html
Why labour is vulnerable to abuses?
他们为什么易受侵犯
China Youth Daily, June 20, 2005
http://zqb.cyol.com/gb/zqb/2005-06/20/content_20290.htm
Law
Four draft laws to be examined
Xinhuanet.com, June 17, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/17/content_3098
950.htm
Media-Press freedom
Pressure on the Press
The Newsweek via China Digital News, June 19, 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8272398/site/newsweek/
Media-Internet
As China Censors the Internet, Money Talks
Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-censor17
jun17,0,912127.story?page=1&track=tottext
Why media remain silence about the disastrous Xueshenghui flood?
中国媒体为何对黑龙江洪灾集体失语？
Boxcn.com , June 19, 2005
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2005/06/200506192
356.shtml
Olympics / Environment
Leaders could make first move to help city clean up its act
SCMP, June 20, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ2HZQ73AE.html
Political Dissidents/Organizing - Petitions and Protests
Defector is a man on the run, Chinese say
Sydney Morning Herald, June 20, 2005
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Defector-is-a-man-on-
the-run-Chinese-say/2005/06/19/1119119727260.html?oneclic
k=true
Public health – HIV Aids
China, WHO to provide AIDS intervention for homosexuals
Xinhuanet.com, June 20, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/20/content_31079
33.htm
Public health – mental health
National social relief scheme to extend to roving homeless people and those with mental disease, according to Ministry of Civil Affairs
民政部官员:流浪精神病患者有望纳入救助范围
EastDay.com, June 18, 2005
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/news/node37955/node37957/
node37979/node68950/userobject1ai1191190.html
Nine in 10 depression sufferers go untreated
China Daily, June 20, 2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-06/20/content
_452815.htm
Public Health - Other
China ruins best chance of beating bird flu epidemic
Telegraph, June 19, 2005
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/
06/19/wflu19.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/19/ixworld.html
Sino-European team finds anti-Sars drug
SCMP, June 20, 2005
http://www.scmp.com/topnews/ZZZGJ7KF4AE.html
FAO seeks clarification from China on use of human flu drug on birds
AFX News Limited, June 20, 2005
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2005/06/20/afx210
0541.html
Reforms - Corruption
China's state-run media focus on police corruption: Two incidents suggest Beijing is trying to win over an angry public
Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2005
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3230887
Reforms - Elections
China's New Frontiers: Tests of Democracy and Dissent
The New York Times, June 19, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/international/asia/19dem
ocracy.html
Reforms - Population Policy
China climbs world infertility ladder:
Pollution and abortion are blamed as one in eight couples are now unable to have a child in a country that not long ago had one of the best fertility rates in the world
South China Morning Post, June 19, 2005
http://www.scmp.com
Resettlement
22 arrested over mob attack
SCMP, June 19, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZHHXQ73AE.html
Dead farmers' kin demand justice
SCMP, June 19, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZACKZFA9E.html
Resettlement-protests and petitions
Peasants fighting back in rural China
The Globe and the mail via China Digital News, June 18, 2005
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory
/LAC/20050618/CHINA18/TPInternational/TopStories
Kin of dead China protesters vow to find killers
Reuters via sandiego.com, June 17, 2005
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050617-0948-chi
na-protest.html
Religion – Christianity
Religious freedom the key, says Vatican as it seeks ties
SCMP, June 18, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZ0TTSGA9E.html
Rural Issues
Suspects responsible for villagers' death seized in Hebei
Xinhuanet, June 18, 2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/18/content_3102
026.htm
State security – terrorism
Uprisings to be ignored by regional grouping
SCMP, June 18, 2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZMKR4GA9E.html