News
Environment
China Issues Regulations for National Survey of Polluters
Xinhuanet, October 15, 2007
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/15/content_
6886165.htm
Human Rights Defender - Wu Lihong (吴立红)
In China, a Lake’s Champion Imperils Himself
New York Times, October 14, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/world/asia/14china.h
tml?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Media
今日关注：信息网络如何成为180万民警的帮手 (Today's Focus: How the Internet Helps with the Work of the 1.8 Million Police Officers)
Legal Daily, October 16, 2007
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/0705/2007-10/16/content_
718712.htm
China Censors Ratchet Up Web Monitoring
Associated Press (via Google), October 13, 2007
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAgr4B4G0PO19CmTc
cEsMKOUFYugD8S7QHG05
Police
常州设外来人员取保候审帮教基地 (Jiangsu Establishes "Aid and Education Facility" for Migrants Who Are Granted Bail After Committing Minor Crimes)
Legal Daily, October 16, 2007
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2007-10/16/content_
718558.htm
Politics
Delegates Not Clear on How They Came to Represent Party Masses
South China Morning Post, October 16, 2007
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62e
cb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=67b1565fb94
a5110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=China&s=Newsa
0/?vgnextoid=67b1565fb94a5110VgnVCM100000360a0a0
aRCRD&ss=China&s=News
China’s Leader Closes Door to Reform
New York Times, October 15, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/world/asia/16china
.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin=slogin
Hu Promises Wider Party Democracy
Financial Times, October 15, 2007
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5088825e-7b4c-11dc-8c53-0
000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=9c33700c-4c86-11da-89df-0000
779e2340.html
Protests and Petitions
Fears for Tibetan Youths Detained in China's Gansu
Radio Free Asia, October 15, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2007/10/15/gansu_
tibetans/
公安在十七大开幕当天大规模搜捕访民 (Police Arrest Petitioners En Masse on Opening Day of CPC Meeting)
Radio Free Asia, October 15, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/xinwen/2007/10/15/china_
petition_beijing/
Social Tensions Confront China's Harmony
Associated Press (via YahooNews), October 15, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071015/ap_on_re_as/china
_disharmonious_society_1;_ylt=ApIxue.skJm7D.AVK.Ek3b
5PzWQAylt=ApIxue.skJm7D.AVK.Ek3b5PzWQA
数千工人抗议原料致癌 揭“水乡硅谷”污染隐忧 (Two Thousand Factory Workers Protest Pollution in Jiangsu)
Radio Free Asia, October 15, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/10/15/
wuran/
万余访民联名信参与者湖北王桂兰被软 (Wang Guilan Detained After Organizing 10,000 Petitioners to Sign Letter Demanding Justice)
Radio Free Asia, October 15, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/10/15/
fangmin2/
广东作家为儿子被杀害到北京上访被押回 (Writer Petitions over Son's Murder in Beijing But Is Sent Back to Guangdong)
Radio Free Asia, October 15, 2007
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shenrubaodao/2007/10/15/
liao/
Three Gorges
Chinese Official Denies "Environmental Disaster" Caused by Three Gorges Project
Xinhuanet, October 16, 2007
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/15/content_
6886718.htm