January 25, 2006

Top News of the Day

Media - Censorship / Press Freedom
China Closes Investigative Pages of Top Newspaper
Radio Free Asia, January 25, 2006
Chinese authorities have shut down a prominent weekly supplement called Freezing Point, which is connected to the national newspaper China Youth Daily. The closure was caused by a dispute between the supplement’s editors and Communist Party officials over journalistic values.
http://www.rfa.org/english/china/2006/01/24/china_media/

Media - Internet Censorship / Corporate Social Accountability
Google Censors Itself for China
BBC, January 25, 2006
In a voluntary move, California-based Google has agreed to limit its services in China so as to help the authorities restrict access to online information related to sensitive matters such as Falun Gong and Tibet. Also, its email service Gmail and web log publishing function will not be made available in China, the company said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4645596.stm

Google Agrees to Censor Service to Enter China
Reuters (via YahooNews), January 25, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060125/wr_nm/google_china_
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News

Corruption
讨论：中国官员自杀现象透视 (Discussion: The Phenomenon of Suicide Among Chinese Officials)
Radio Free Asia, January 25, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/24/zisha/

Death Penalty
江苏原组织部长被判死缓 (Former Jiangsu Official Sentenced to Death with Two-Year Reprieve for Graft)
The Beijing News, January 25, 2006
http://news.thebeijingnews.com/china/2006/0125/014@157312.htm

入室强暴五女生 罪犯被执行死刑 (Liaoning Man Executed for Rape of Five Female Students)
Legal Daily, January 25, 2006
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2006-01/25/content_257303.htm

广东五元集团女副总被杀案终审 两名主犯伏法 (Two Men Executed for Robbing and Murdering Female Director of a Guangdong Enterprise)
Legal Daily, January 25, 2006
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2006-01/25/content_257298.htm

Environment - Pollution
China's Mixed Smoke Signals
Asia Times Online, January 25, 2006
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HA24Ad01.html

Riverside Chemical Plants 'Pose Huge Threat'
SCMP, January 25, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ0KAEKRGE.html

Labor - Unemployment
湖北广水制药厂改制下岗工生活费被停发（二）(Former Employees Lose Pension Allowances After Factory Reform)
Radio Free Asia, January 25, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/24/guangshui/

Labor - Industrial Accidents
中国称仍有百馀化工厂存在安全问题 (Over 100 Chemical Plants Still Unsafe in China)
BBC, January 25, 2006
http://news8.thdo.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4640000/
newsid_4642500/4642588.stm.stm

Land Policy - Resettlement
西安法官住宅遭强迫拆迁 (Judges Living in a Housing Compound in Xi'an Forced to Relocate)
Radio Free Asia, January 25, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/24/faguan/

Media - Censorship / Press Freedom
Axe Falls on Influential Weekly that Fired Debate
SCMP, January 25, 2006
http://www.scmp.com/topnews/ZZZLEWSJRGE.html

Police - Crime
Criminals Targeting Us, Say Foreigners
SCMP, January 25, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZHJQSJRGE.html

Poverty
2005中国城乡居民收入继续较快增长 (Incomes for Both Urban and Rural Residents Increased in 2005)
China Daily, January 25, 2006
http://news.cyol.com/content/2006-01/25/content_1307160.htm

Public Health - HIV-AIDS/STDs
中国最新艾滋疫情评估 现有65万艾滋病毒感染者 (650,000 Currently Infected with HIV in China)
EastDay.com, January 25, 2006
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/node81741/node81762/
node114307/userobject1ai1814480.html4480.html

Social Security - Relief Schemes
50 Million Poor to Get Relief from Government
People's Daily, January 25, 2006
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200601/25/eng20060125
_238183.html

Xinjiang
汉和评论：中国南疆部署歼十新战鬥机 (Toronto-Based Kanwa Intelligence Review: Latest Model of Fighter Jets Deployed to Xinjiang)
Asia Times Online, January 25, 2006
http://www.atchinese.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12925&Itemid=33=33