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Human Rights Defenders - Xiao Yunliang (萧云良)
Report: China Frees Imprisoned Organizer
AP( via YahooNews), February 28, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_re_as/china_
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Xiao Yunliang, one of the leaders of a massive labor protest in Liaoning Province in 2002, was released from prison on February 23 after being given a 24-day sentence reduction, according to the San Francisco-based rights group The Dui Hua Foundation. Xiao was released in advance of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the US next month. However, Yao Fuxin, another leader in the protest arrested with Xiao, is still in prison and is not due to to be released until 2009.
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Corruption
Law Boosts Anti-Graft Audit Powers
SCMP, March 01, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZSQXUH8JE.html
Education
教育乱收费内地800校长革职 (800 School Heads Dismissed for Charging Illegal Educational Fees)
Wen Wei Po, March 01, 2006
http://www.wenweipo.com/news.phtml?cat=002CH&news
_id=CH0603010001
Education Funding to Rise to 4pc of GDP
SCMP, March 01, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZVN2UH8JE.html
Environment
Ecologists Warn of Looming Green Crisis
SCMP, March 01, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZOQXUH8JE.html
High and Dry in China
The Standard, March 01, 2006
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=9&art_id=13054&sid=6798718&con_type=
1&d_str=200603018&con_type=1&d_str=20060301
Human Rights
Protect Rights, Mothers Urge
SCMP, March 01, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZI4STH8JE.html
Human Rights Defenders – Journalists - Li Yuanlong (李元龙)
国际组织呼吁中国释放贵州记者李元龙 (Committee to Protect Journalists Calls for Release of Jailed Reporter Li Yuanlong)
Radio Free Asia, February 28, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/
02/28/liyuanlong/
Human Rights Defenders – Xu Wanping (许万平)
重庆高院维持异议人士许万平12年原判 (Chongqing Higher Court Upholds Verdict of 12-year Prison Term for Activist Xu Wanping)
Radio Free Asia, February 28, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/
02/28/xuwanping/
Human Rights Defenders - Hu Jia (胡佳)
UN驻华办事处呼吁中国调查胡佳失踪一事 (UN's Beijing Office Calls for Investigation into Missing AIDS Activist Hu Jia)
Radio Free Asia, February 28, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/
2006/02/28/hujia/
Media - Censorship / Press Freedom
冰點今復刊 (Banned Weekly Bingdian [Freezing Point] is Relaunched)
Ming Pao, March 01, 2006
http://www.mingpaonews.com/
Protest Editor Sent to 'Research Room'
The Telegraph, February 27, 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/27/wchina27.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/
02/27/ixportal.htmleet=/portal/2006/02/27/ixportal.html
Media - Internet Censorship
Public Call for Cleaner, Healthier Internet
People's Daily, February 28, 2006
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200603/01/
eng20060301_246963.html
Poverty
北京农民人均纯收入不足城市居民一半 (Residents in Rural Areas Outside Beijing Earn Less Than Half of Those in Urban Area)
China Youth Daily, March 01, 2006
http://news.cyol.com/content/2006-03/01/content
_1324704.htm
Protests and Petitions
中国农村群体抗争事件数目激增 (Mass Protests in Rural Areas Rise Sharply)
BBC, March 01, 2006
http://news8.thdo.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_
4750000/newsid_4757600/4757678.stm.stm
上海将上访者软禁拘留甚至送进精神病院 (Shanghai Kidnapping, Detaining and Even Sending Petitioners to Psychiatric Institutions in Run–up to NPC and Political Consultative Conference Meetings)
Radio Free Asia, February 28, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/
02/28/shangfang/
Religion
参与法轮功将受治安处罚 (Participation in Falun Gong Will be Punished Under New Public Order Law)
The Beijing News, March 01, 2006
http://news.thebeijingnews.com/china/2006/
0301/011@164087.htm
New Chinese Cardinal: Beijing Must Change
AP( via YahooNews), February 28, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060228/ap_on_re_as/
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Rural Issues
Cracks Appearing in Model Villages
SCMP, March 01, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ1O2UH8JE.html
New Breed of Residents Confounds the 'Comeback Cadre'
SCMP, March 01, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZ8X1UH8JE.html
Social Security
Service Targets Lonely Elderly People
China Daily, March 01, 2006
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-
03/01/content_524984.htm
Society
China Says it May Deport Badly Behaved Foreigners
Reuters (via YahooNews), March 01, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060301/ts_nm/
china_crime_dc
Hear China's ‘Angry Youth’
Chicago Tribunal, February 28, 2006
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/
chi-0602280153feb28,1,1265812.story?page=2&coll=chi-news-
hed0602280153feb28,1,1265812.story?page=2&coll=chi-news-hed