HRIC Daily Brief: 09.07.2005

Top News of the Day

Detention – Shi Tao (师涛)
Group: Yahoo Helped China Jail Journalist
AP via YahooNews.com, 07/09/2005
Rights group accused Yahoo Inc of passing on information that helped the Chinese Authority to trace the personal email account of the jailed journalist, Shi Tao. The information was then used to sustain police's accusation against Shi of lacking state secrets to foreign agency.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050907/ap_
on_hi_te/china_reporter_jailed_1

Detention - Chen Guangcheng / Protests and Petitions
Rural Activist Seized in Beijing
Washington Post, 07/09/2005
On September 6, Shandong police reportedly seized and detained Chen Guangcheng, a blind rural activist who has been leading a legal campaign against the use of forced sterilization and abortion in rural China, when attempting to meet with senior government officials who expressed support for his cause.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2005/09/06/AR2005090600921.html?nav=rss_world/asia dyn/
content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090600921.html?nav=
rss_world/asia

News
Bilaterals - EU/China
Blair senses sea change in China visit
China Daily, 07/09/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/07/content_475833.htm

EU gives broad support to China clothing deal
Reuters, 07/09/2005
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2005-09-07T104616Z_01_FOR738719_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-TRADE-EU-CHINA-DC.XML

Border Territories/Issues - North Korea
China to announce date for resuming NK nuke talks
AP via China Daily, 07/09/2005
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/07/content_475839.htm

Border Territories/Issues - Taiwan
Professor sues Deloitte for Taiwan imbroglio
Xinhua, 07/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/07/content_3454142.htm

Death Penalty
Burglar sentenced to death for burglary and murder
杀害两教师的凶手一审被判死刑
Legal Daily, 07/09/2005
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2005-09/07/content_191595.htm

Hubei man executed for blackmailing diary company
下毒后索要20万元蒙牛毒牛奶案主犯被执行死刑
China News Agency, 07/09/2005
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/news/2005/2005-09-07/8/62
2188.shtml

Supreme Court to introduce three criminal courts to prepare getting back power of death penalty review next year
死刑復核權明年收歸最高院最高院已增設三刑庭
CRI Online, 07/09/2005
http://big5.chinabroadcast.cn/gate/big5/gb.chinabroadcast.cn/
3821/2005/09/06/1245@688885.htm

Detention – Zhang Lin (张林)
Zhang Lin sent to hospital after a week-long hunger strike in prison
张林看守所绝食被送医院抢救
Radio Free Asia, 07/09/2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2005/09/06/
zhanglin/

Environment-Disasters
Typhoon Talim's China death toll rises to 110 deaths, millions still homeless
InterFax, 07/09/2005
http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=5482&slug=TYPHOON

Environment /Law
Experts call for making laws to protect Changjiang and Huanghe
专家建议：为长江黄河立法
Xinhuanet.com, 07/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2005-09/07/content_34
53877.htm

Gender - Sex workers
Mean streets taking a violent toll on vulnerable sex workers
SCMP, 07/09/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZ646RH9DE.html

Labour / Law
Legal framework for employment promotion regulations to curb gender and hukou discrimination
我國就業促進法草擬成型反對性別歧視戶籍歧視
CRI Online, 07/09/2005
http://big5.chinabroadcast.cn/gate/big5/gb.chinabroadcast.cn/38
21/2005/09/07/1062@689695.htm

Human Rights - Bilateral ties
China is on right path to democracy, says Blair
SCMP, 07/09/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ5J6RH9DE.html

Blair raises 'question mark' on China's human rights
The Guardian, 06/09/2005
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,156
3762,00.html?gusrc=rss

Chinese, US presidents to meet in New York
Xinhuanet.com, 06/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/06/content_34
51916.htm

June 4th - EU arms ban
EU foreign policy chief raises hopes of end to arms embargo
SCMP, 07/09/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZ5984I9DE.html

Law
Mock trial highlights court process
Xinhuanet.com, 07/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/07/content_34
53953.htm

Law - wrongful convictions
Why local government gives additional subsidy to She Xianglin?
镇政府补助佘祥林20万理由何在
Xinhuanet.com, 07/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2005-09/07/content_345444
7.htm

Media - Press freedom/censorship
Monitoring the media's pulse
SCMP, 07/09/2005
http://focus.scmp.com/focusnews/ZZZQQ64I9DE.html

NGOs
Guangdong to support three types of NGOs
我省将着重培育三类新型民间组织
Nanfang City News, 07/09/2005
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/southnews/dd/nfrb/a03/2005
09070064.asp

NGOs urges support from govt, public
Xinhuanet.com, 06/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/06/content_3452
857.htm

Politics
China to Honor Ousted Former Leader Hu Yaobang
Radio Free Asia, 06/09/2005
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/politics/2005/09/06/china_y
aobang/

Poverty - Rural poverty
Statistics reveal rural consumption 10 years behind that in urban
国家统计局称农民消费水平整整落后城市居民10年
YahooNew.com (China), 07/09/2005
http://cn.news.yahoo.com/050907/866/2eudg.html

Protests and Petitions /Police
Beijing police given power to stop petitioners attempting to commit suicides by force
上访者扬言自杀法警可携警械制止
Radio Free Asia, 06/09/2005
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2005/09/06/
shangfang/

Public Health /Law
Expert calls for new legislation to set direction of health care reform
卫生体系3大问题专家呼吁立法确立医改方向
Xinhuanet.com, 07/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2005-09/07/content_3453
414.htm

Public Health - HIV AIDS /STDs / Children
Govt urged to take care of AIDS patients' children
Xinhuanet.com, 06/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/06/content_345
2674.htm

Lawmaker calls for legislation on HIV/AIDS control
Xinhuanet.com, 06/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/06/content_34
53096.htm

New AIDS control program launched in Yunnan
Xinhua, 07/09/2005
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/06/content_3452286.htm

Society - Ethnic minority / Poverty - Rural poverty
Ethnic villages target of aid plan
SCMP, 07/09/2005
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZPT27I9DE.html

Xinjiang / State Security - Terrorism
Separatism in Xinjiang: terrorists or freedom fighters?
疆独：恐怖分子还是独立斗士？
Voice of America, 06/09/2005
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2005-09-06-voa75.cfm

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