February 1, 2006

Top News of the Day

Human Rights Defenders - Yang Tianshui (杨天水)
因言获罪自由作家杨天水拘留转逮捕 (Outspoken Author Yang Tianshui Formally Arrested)
Radio Free Asia, January 31, 2006
On January 20, author and internet essayist Yang Tianshui was formally arrested on charges of subversion after being detained in December by public security officers in Nanjing.
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/31/
yangtianshui/

Media - Internet Censorship
中国打造网上长城 SKYPE同意过滤信息 (Internet Telephone Company SKYPE Signs Agreement with China to Develop Filtering System)
Radio Free Asia, February 01, 2006
The Luxemburg-based internet telephone company SKYPE has signed a letter of intent with China to develop a firewall, or filtering system, to block words that are political sensitive, such as Falun Gong and Dalai Lama.
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/31/skype/


News

Children
福利机构收养孤儿6.6万 (Welfare Groups Adopt 66,000 Orphans Nationwide)
The Beijing News, January 30, 2006
http://news.thebeijingnews.com/china/2006/0130/015@
158312.htm

Corruption
Anti-Graft Hero Counts the Cost
SCMP, January 28, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZE8KEKRGE.html

Death Penalty
吉林汪清县千万富翁灭门案两名主犯被判死刑 (Two Men Sentenced to Death in Jilin for Killing A Billionaire and His Family)
Xinhuanet, January 31, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2006-01/31/content_4121953.htm

Government - Grassroots Elections
Age Cap of 45 on New Rural Leaders
SCMP, January 28, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ13ZY6SGE.html

Human Rights Defenders - Lawyers
高智晟和杨在新打算携手共同维权 (Activist Lawyers Gao Zhisheng and Yang Zaixin Band Together to Defend Rights)
Radio Free Asia, February 01, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/31/
gaozhisheng/

被关律师郑恩宠之妻受狱方警告 (Wife of Jailed Lawyer Zheng Enchong Given Warning by Prison Authorities)
Radio Free Asia, February 01, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/31/
zhengenchong/

Labor - Industrial Accidents
山西查出近千名红顶煤商 关闭4876处非法煤矿 (4,876 Mines Shut Down in Shanxi for Violations)
EastDay.com, February 01, 2006
http://china.eastday.com/eastday/node81741/node81762/
node115356/userobject1ai1824822.html4822.html

China's Lunar Fireworks Frenzy Kills 36
AFP (via YahooNews), January 30, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060130/wl_asia_afp/afplifestyle
chinalunar_060130182044;_ylt=AqL.E8RwJKuXGN.OOZTMiQ1
PzWQA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl44;_
ylt=AqL.E8RwJKuXGN.OOZTMiQ1PzWQA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW0
4NW9mBHNlYwMlJV

Law

我国正抓紧研究修改国家赔偿法的有关问题 (Chinese Government Steps Up Effort to Improve Compensation Law)
Xinhuanet, February 01, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2006-02/01/content_
4124882.htm

我国将制定违法行为矫治法 (New Regulation to Be Drafted to Revamp "Reeducation Through Labor" System )
The Beijing News, February 01, 2006
http://news.thebeijingnews.com/china/2006/0201/015@
158490.htm

Nation to Set up Legal System for Drug Surveillance
Xinhuanet, January 31, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/31/content_
4122109.htm

Media - Internet Censorship /
Corporate Social Accountability
Microsoft Calls for Common China Policy
Financial Times, February 01, 2006
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/141c20fe-92b5-11da-977b-
0000779e2340.html

Google Won't Talk to Congress About China
San Francisco Chronicle, January 31, 2006
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/
01/31/BUGK4GVTQD1.DTL

Google and My Red Flag
Washington Post, January 30, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/
01/29/AR2006012900708.htmldyn
/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900708.html

Police - Prisons
Majority of China's Transplants Come from Prisoner's Organs
Dajiyuan.com, February 01, 2006
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-1-30/37564.html

Politics
Reality Bites in the Mainland
The Standard, January 31, 2006
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=9&art_
id=10989&sid=6454734&con_type=
1&d_str=200601314&con_type=1&d_str=20060131

Public Health
中国政府表示要解决群众看病难贵问题 (Chinese Government Indicates it Will Resolve the Problem with Expensive Health Care Costs)
Radio Free Asia, February 01, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/31/
kanbingnan/

Public Health - HIV-AIDS/STDs /
联合国为中国防治爱滋病提供援助 (UN to Provide Assistance for AIDS Prevention in China)
BBC, January 29, 2006
http://news8.thdo.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_4660000/
newsid_4664400/4664432.stm.stm

中国医疗卫生资源分配的不公 (Health Care Resources not Allocated Evenly in China)
Radio Free Asia, January 01, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/31/yiliao/

Rural Issues - Taxation
农业税取消生活是否改善 --- 与四川通江农村妇女的访谈 (Has the Abolition of Agricultural Tax Improved Lives? An Interview with a Woman from Rural Sichuan)
Radio Free Asia, January 31, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/01/31/
nongyeshui/