Death Penalty
Video of Executed Taiwan Spy Shown as a Warning
Reuters (via SCMP), August 08, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZOPL48KQE.html
Disasters
Mainland Needs to Face Landslide Threat: Geologist
SCMP, August 08, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZBIM48KQE.html
Environment
四成脱硫设施为何成摆设 (Why Is 40 Percent of Desulphurization Equipment Not Functioning?)
China Youth Daily, August 08, 2006
http://zqb.cyol.com/content/2006-08/08/content
_1471561.htm
China Plans to Shut Projects that Pollute Oil-Rich Bohai Sea
Bloomberg, August 07, 2006
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&
sid=aLu5hIlWZN3M&refer=asia
Food Security
中国耕地减少 将冲击粮食市场？ (Will Reduction of Farmland in China Destabilize Global Food Market?)
Voice of America, August 06, 2006
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2006-08-06-voa37.cfm
Gender
湖南规定人大代表候选人女性要占30%以上 (New Regulation in Hunan Stipulates that at Least 30% of Candidates for Provincial People’s Congress Must Be Women)
Xinhuanet, August 05, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2006-08/05/content
_4923260.htm
Human Rights
学者﹕应依法对待维权 (Academic: Authorities Should Handle Rights Defense Movement In Accordance with Law)
Ming Pao, August 08, 2006
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20060808/caa2.htm
Human Rights Defender – Xinjiang - Huseyincan Celil (塞利尔)
中国保证不判塞利尔死刑 家人疑可信性 (China Promises Not to Sentence Huseyincan Celil to Death; Family Skeptical)
Radio Free Asia, August 07, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/08/
07/shailier/
Human Rights Defender – Lawyer - Gao Zhisheng (高智晟)
逾两百人联署抗议高智晟遭暴力袭击 (Over 200 Join Signature Protest Against Attack on Gao Zhisheng)
Radio Free Asia, August 07, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/08/
07/gao/
Labor
English-language Schools in China - the New Sweatshops
Today Online, August 08, 2006
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/134957.asp
滬最低工资提至750 全国最高 (Minimum Wage Raised to 750 Yuan Per Month in Shanghai, Highest in Nation)
Wen Wei Po, August 08, 2006
http://www.wenweipo.com/news.phtml?news_id
=CH0608080011&cat=002CH
石油工人维权胜利获赔 (Rights Defense Movement Wins Victory as Oil Workers Get Redundancy Pay)
Ming Pao, August 08, 2006
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20060808/caa1.htm
More Trade Unions Set up in Wal-Mart Outlets in China
China Daily, August 07, 2006
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-08/07/
content_658894.htm
中国健康最透支：信息技术人员 (Survey: Information Technology Jobs Most Debilitating to Health)
Voice of America, August 06, 2006
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2006-08-06-voa13.cfm
Law
China Revises Law to Reduce Energy Costs
Xinhuanet, August 06, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/06/
content_4925414.htm
Media
Beijing Urged to Ease Press Curbs
Financial Times, August 08, 2006
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4e0fc850-266d-11db-
afa1-0000779e2340.html
“欣弗”事件暴露政府信息公开的惯性与惰性 (Defective Antibiotics Expose Government's Inertia in Releasing Information)
Nanfang Daily, August 08, 2006
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/southnews/
spqy/200608080546.asp
广州市卫生局长回应“限访令” (Guangzhou Health Authorities Explain That Policy Requiring Approval for Media Interviews Only Applies to Large-scale Incidents)
Legal Daily, August 08, 2006
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/misc/2006-08/08/
content_368086.htm
一旦遇到“较真”，权力也很“讲理” (Guangzhou Health Authorities “Reasonable” in Answering Questions on Notice Restricting Media Interviews)
Nanfang Daily, August 08, 2006
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/
southnews/spqy/200608080543.asp
Chinese Go Further, Faster and Higher with Media Crackdowns Two Years Before Beijing Olympics
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), August 07, 2006
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18483
Ease Limits on Foreign Press, Club Says
SCMP, August 08, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ2RS38KQE.html
Olympics
Hopes for Change Hung on '08 Olympics
The Christian Science Monitor, August 07, 2006
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0807/p06s02-woap.html
Beijing Getting Closer to Olympic Standard as Host
Xinhuanet, August 06, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/06/
content_4926304.htm
Beijing Must Do More to Secure "Green Olympics"
Reuters (via New York Times), August 06, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/sports/sports-
olympics-china.html
Politics
中共十六届六中全会前瞻 (Predicting Emphasis for Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee)
Nanfang Weekend, August 08, 2006
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/southnews/zmzg
/200608020613.asp
Population
Abortions up in China as Taboos Weaken
The Japan Times, August 08, 2006
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20060807a3.html
Protests and Petitions
中国评论﹕成果共享 方有和谐 (Commentary on Protests in Sichuan: Harmony Will Only Be Possible When Fruits of Economic Development Are Shared)
Mingpao, August 08, 2006
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20060808/caf1.htm
湖北百的士市政府请愿 (Nearly 100 Taxi Drivers Petition at Suizhou Government Building, Hubei Province)
Ming Pao, August 08, 2006
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20060808/ccf1.htm
湖南湘阴移民早排斥酿暴力冲突 (Locals and New Immigrants Clash in Xiangyin, Hunan Province)
Radio Free Asia, August 07, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/08
/07/chongtu/
Public Health
安徽药监部门畅通信息发布渠道 (Anhui’s Food and Drug Administration Working to Find Answer to Defective Antibiotic Case)
China Youth Daily, August 08, 2006
http://zqb.cyol.com/content/2006-08/08/content_1471556.htm
Shaanxi Woman Believed to Be the Fourth Victim of Deadly Antibiotic
SCMP, August 08, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ0QL48KQE.html
Thousands Quarantined in China School TB Scare
Reuters, August 07, 2006
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK360787.htm
Religion
北京佛教居士雷大勇因印刷公益佛经被判刑四年 (Buddhist Practitioner Sentenced to Four Years' Imprisonment for Publishing Free Sutras)
Radio Free Asia, August 07, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/08/07/fujin/
Rural Issues
Painting the Peasants into the Portrait of China’s Economic Boom
New York Times, August 07, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/books/07kahn.html?_r=2
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