Monday, January 29, 2007

January 27 - 29, 2007

Top News of the Day
Tibet
China Detains Tibetan Monk in Gansu
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/english/tibetan/2007/01/26/tibetan_monk/
Chinese authorities in a Tibetan region of northwest Gansu Province arrested a monk on January 8; his whereabouts have been unclear since then. Local residents speculated that the arrest of Jamyang Gyatso could be because he helped them receive a Radio Free Asia broadcast in Tibetan, or that he made copies of a book writer by the Tibetan poet Hortsang Jigme, who lives in the United States.

News
Death Penalty
北京市高院院长称死刑案件拟要求关键证人出庭 (Beijing Higher People's Court Considers Mandating That Crucial Witnesses Testify in Trials that May Involve Death Penalty)
Xinhuanet, January 29, 2007
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2007-01/29/content_5666840.
htm


死刑复核案律师可见最高法法官 (Supreme People's Court Judges to Meet Lawyers Involved in Death Penalty Cases upon Request)
The Beijing News, January 29, 2007
http://news.thebeijingnews.com/0565/2007/01-29/014@063332.
htm


甘肃宣传部副部长被杀案的两名罪犯被判死刑 (Two Murderers of Cadre Sentenced to Death in Gansu)
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/xinwen/2007/01/26/china_crime/

Economic Development
China May Achieve Industrial Economy by 2015: Report
People's Daily, January 28, 2007
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/28/eng20070128_345
510.html


Environment
Raise Environment Watchdog to Ministerial Level: Academics
South China Morning Post, January 29, 2007
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZZMNNTEXE.html

Labor
Guangdong's Foreign Firms Must Set Up Labour Unions
South China Morning Post, January 29, 2007
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZD1UNTEXE.html

Land Policy
Bosses to Go back to Building Homes
South China Morning Post, January 27, 2007
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZOQQNTEXE.html

Law
余姚市政府组织强拆民房 法院判决其行政违法 (Ningbo Court Rules Forcible Demolition Illegal)
Xinhuanet, January 29, 2007
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2007-01/29/content_5667948.h
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山东两千民师告官 官压上访疑涉贪 (Shandong Courts Refuse to Accept Claims from 2,000 Private School Teachers)
Radio Free Asia, January 27, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/01/27/shandong/

一名乙肝带菌者控告东莞港资企业歧视 (Hepatitis B Carrier Launches Discrimination Lawsuit Against Hong Kong Enterprise)
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/xinwen/2007/01/26/china_discrimi
nation/


Media
Channels Boom, but Picture Remains Blurred
South China Morning Post, January 29, 2007
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZFCQNTEXE.html

外国记記者採访放宽 地头蟲迎战过江龙 (China's Media Feel the Heat Under New Regulation Governing Journalists' Work)
Ming Pao, January 29, 2007
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20070129/cha1.htm

中国禁书引起强烈反弹 (Scholars in China Condemn Censorship of New Books)
Radio Free Asia, January 28, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/01/28/jinshu/

Hospital Sues over Transplant Reports
South China Morning Post, January 27, 2007
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZGRQNTEXE.html

自由派顶尖学者开讲 二十一世纪兴云讲坛被封杀 (Forum Composed of Top Liberal Scholars Ordered to Close, Website Shut down)
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/01/26/21/

Police
川酒店女工证实死於急病 (Sichuan Police Find Girl Died of Illness, Not Rape)
Wen Wei Po, January 29, 2007
http://www.wenweipo.com/news_print.phtml?news_id=CH07012
90040


Protests and Petitions
反右50周年永湧索偿潮 (Victims Seek Compensation Ahead of 50th Anniversary of "Anti-Rightist" Campaign)
Ming Pao, January 29, 2007
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20070129/cab1.htm

HK Demonstrator Threatens Suicide
South China Morning Post, January 27, 2007
http://china.scmp.com/chitoday/ZZZEYTNTEXE.html

岑溪农民抗议造纸厂污染 警方拘押十几名村民 (10 Guangxi Villagers Arrested for Protesting Pollution from Paper Factory)
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/01/26/wuran/

武汉下岗职工抗议集体财产被侵吞 (20 Dismissed Workers Protest Unfair Compensation in Wuhan)
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/xinwen/2007/01/26/china_protest/

二百名访民在北京市人大会议开幕当天被抓 (200 Petitioners Taken Away as Beijing Local People's Congress Starts)
Radio Free Asia, January 26, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/01/26/fangmin/

Public Health
Pledge to Clean Up Drugs Watchdog
South China Morning Post, January 28, 2007
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZ2ZSNTEXE.html

Drug Talks Offer Aids Patients Hope
South China Morning Post, January 27, 2007
http://china.scmp.com/chimain/ZZZKQQNTEXE.html

Xinjiang
Uygur Analysis Appals
South China Morning Post, January 29, 2007
http://focus.scmp.com/focusnews/ZZZC7UNTEXE.html