Top News of the Day
Civil Society
China Closes Down HIV/AIDS Group
AFP (via YahooNews), October 19, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061019/hl_afp/healthchinaaidsri
ghts_061019182924
Xuelianhua (雪莲花), an NGO working on sexually transmitted diseases in Xinjiang, said it had been shut down because local authorities wanted to silence it. The NGO's organizer Chang Kun (常坤) believed the shut down was an act of retaliation, as the group had recently exposed a case in which 19 students who tested positive for hepatitis-B were expelled from school.
News
Civil Society
为什么要有农民的组织？秦晖访谈录 (Scholar Comments on the Need for Farmers' Organizations)
Nanfang Weekend, October 19, 2006
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/southnews/zmzg/2006101906
99.asp
Corruption
Shanghai Scandal Spreads to Beijing
SCMP, October 20, 2006
http://www.scmp.com/topnews/ZZZ8Q6R9CRE.html
Amnesty Account Allows Corrupt Officials to Surrender Illegal Earnings
People's Daily, October 19, 2006
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200610/19/eng20061019_313
493.html
Death Penalty
邱兴华一审死刑！陕西高担心其“胡说”临时取消庭审直播 (Serial Killer in Shaanxi Given Death Sentence; Live Broadcast of Trial Cancelled)
Nanfang City News, October 20, 2006
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/southnews/jwxy/2006102002
94.asp
Environment
China City Shuts 43 Cement Factories for Pollution
Reuters Alert Net, October 19, 2006
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK158507.htm
Human Rights Defender - Zhu Yufu (朱虞夫)
民主党成员朱虞夫出狱要求恢复工作遭拒绝 (Authorities Decline Democracy Party Member Zhu Yufu's Request to Resume Work at Former Government Bureau)
Radio Free Asia, October 19, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/10/19/zhu/
Human Rights Defender - Yan Zhengxue (严正学)
严正学被公安带走 住所被搜查 (Dissident Yan Zhengxue Taken Away, Home Searched in Zhejiang Province)
Radio Free Asia, October 19, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/10/19/hangz
hou/
Media
中国互联网协会证实博客推行实名制已成定局 (Internet Society of China Confirms Policy on Real Name Registration of Bloggers)
EastDay.com, October 20, 2006
http://news.eastday.com/eastday/node81741/node81762/
node166934/u1a2388377.html
媒体指实名制代表落后公共管理思维 (Newspaper Argues Real Name Registration System Lags Behind Public Management Theory)
Nanfang Daily, October 19, 2006
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/southnews/djjz/200610190430
.asp
Migrant Workers
Migrants Boost Birth Rate in Shanghai
Xinhuanet, October 19, 2006
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/19/content_522377
8.htm
Multilateral Relations - World Bank
World Bank Backs Farmers' Groups
SCMP, October 20, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZHVNO9CRE.html
Politics
林牧遗体告别式在官方干扰下举行 (Authorities Intervene in Activities that Commemorate for Lin Mu's Death)
Radio Free Asia, October 19, 2006
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2006/10/19/linmu/
Protests and Petitions - Labor
Gansu Sanitation Workers Are Promised Minimum Wage
SCMP, October 20, 2006
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZM28R9CRE.html
Rural Issues
国家将调研农村留守儿童 (Beijing to Investigate Situation of Migrant Workers’ Children Left at Home)
The Beijing News, October 20, 2006
http://news.thebeijingnews.com/0565/2006/10-20/024@0246
07.htm
State Security
China Holds Anti-Terror Drill
People's Daily, October 20, 2006
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200610/19/eng20061019_313
508.html
Xinjiang
王乐泉：新疆已形成打击“三股势力”的立体屏障 (Xinjiang Party Secretary: Xinjiang Commits to Clamp Down on the "Three Evil Forces")
People's Daily, October 20, 2006
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/14562/4937717.html