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XUAR
Uighur Activist Asks U.S. to Help Stop China Removals
Reuters (via YahooNews), November 01, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071101/wl_nm/china_usa
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Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer told the US Congress yesterday that the Chinese government operates a program which forcibly transfers hundreds of thousands of young Uyghur women from Xinjiang to eastern China. These women face harsh treatment with 12-hour work days and often see wages withheld for months. Kadeer described these women as “cheap slave labor and potential sex workers.”
Tibet
Group: Tibetans Fired upon by Police
Associated Press (via YahooNews), October 31, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_re_as/china
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Reportedly on October 18 a group of about 30 Tibetans, including Buddhist monks, nuns and two children who tried to cross a mountain pass to exile in Nepal were fired upon by China’s People’s Armed Police. According to the NGO International Campaign for Tibet, there were no injuries or fatalities. A few of these Tibetans reached Katmandu but several others, including three monks, were taken into custody. The incident follows a similar case in September 2006 when foreign climbers witnessed and recorded another shooting.
News
Environment
China Shifts Pollution Fight
Wall Street Journal, November 01, 2007
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119383925160677672.html?
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Government
Capital's Planning Chief a Non-Party Official
South China Morning Post, November 01, 2007
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ec
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村民要民主选举及罢免权 顺德各地基层换届难产 (In Shunde, Guangdong, Villagers Demand Genuine Elections and Impeachment Rights)
Radio Free Asia, October 31, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/10/31/
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Human Rights Defender - Yao Lifa (姚立法)
十七大期间维权教师姚立法遭软禁 (Rights Defense Teacher Yao Lifa Detained During CPC Meeting)
Voice of America, October 31, 2007
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2007-10-31-voa24.cfm
Labor
3 in 10 Graduates Yet to Find Work
China Daily (via Xinhua), November 01, 2007
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/01/content_
6987218.htm
Law
China Approves Food Safety Law as Supplement to Existing Statute
Xinhuanet, October 31, 2007
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/31/content_
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Olympics
Disney Supplier Accused of Labor Abuse
Associated Press (via YahooNews), October 31, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_re_as/china
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Factbox -Olympics - How Beijing Is Trying to Meet "Green" Targets
Reuters, October 31, 2007
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP227434.htm
UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Truce During Beijing Olympics
Xinhuanet, October 31, 2007
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/01/content_
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Protests and Petitions
北京法院受理上海访民控告周永康 (Beijing Court Accepts Beaten Petitioner's Claim Against Former Minister of Public Security)
Radio Free Asia, October 31, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/10/31/zhou
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湖南矿主动用30条枪恐吓维权农民 (Hunan Illegal Mine Owner Employs Thugs to Use 30 Guns to Threaten Protesting Villagers)
Radio Free Asia, October 31, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/10/31/
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广东维权村民服刑期间去世 北京访民被劳教 (Mistreated Guangdong Rights Defender Dead of Cancer While Serving Sentence)
Radio Free Asia, October 31, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/10/31/
weiquan/
山东烟台农民维权代表于珍失踪 (Shandong Petitioners Taken Away by "Retrievers"; Whereabouts of 4 Still Unknown)
Radio Free Asia, October 31, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/10/31/
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Public Health
Chinese Chemicals Flow Unchecked to Market
New York Times, November 01, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/world/asia/31chemi
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Health Reform Plan Hindered by Debate
China Daily, October 31, 2007
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-10/31/content_
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Three Gorges
Sold down the River
Financial Times, October 31, 2007
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/20d888b0-87d1-11dc-9464-
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