Children
Child Labor Scandal Highlights Worrying Trend in China
Reuters, May 01, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService_
2_MOLT/idUSHKG6219720080501
Economic Development
Beijing Air Terminal Goes All Out for the Games
New York Times, May 01, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/business/w
orldbusiness/02terminal.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
&oref=slogin
Government
China Issues New Information Rules to Promote Gov't Transparency
Xinhuanet, April 30, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/30/con
tent_8084125.htm
Human Rights Defender - Wu Lihong (吴立红)
A Lot To Be Angry About
The Economist, May 02, 2008
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/PrinterFriendl
y.cfm?story_id=11293734
Human Rights Defender - Hada (哈达)
(Building for the Future: Though Tensions Remain Between Mongols and Han Chinese, Growing Prosperity Is Aiding a Peaceful Coexistence)
South China Morning Post, May 02, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af6
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Related information:
IR2008: About the Individual: Hada
April 2008
http://www.ir2008.org/04/about.php
Human Rights Defender- Li Xige (李喜阁)
妙觉法师在派出所接受采访，谈被扣留的经过和原因 (Two AIDS Activists Detained in Henan)
Radio Free Asia, May 02, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/hujia-05
012008170435.html
Human Rights Defender - Wang Bingzhang (王炳章)
王炳章母亲希望中国体现奥运精神释放王炳章 (Wang Bingzhang's Mother Sends Open Letter to Hu Jintao: Asks for Release of Son in the Spirit of the Olympics Games)
Radio Free Asia, May 01, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/wang-05012
008172408.html
Protests and Petitions
Around 20 Detained in Hong Kong Olympic Protests
Agence France-Presse (via Inquirer.net), May 02, 2008
http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/olympics/view.
php?db=1&article=20080502-134138
134138
北京两天内拘捕一千多名访民 (Beijing Detains 1,000 Petitioners in Two-Day Sweep)
Radio Free Asia, May 02, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/petitioner_bei
jing-04302008115312.html?encoding=simplified
04302008115312.html?encoding=simplified
警方帶走陳巧文 (Hong Kong Police Detain Pro-Tibetan Activist Chen Qiaowen)
Ming Pao, May 02, 2008
http://www.mpinews.com/htm/INews/20080502/gb51
027a.htm
石家庄纺织工人罢工 (Hebei Textile Workers Go On Strike)
Radio Free Asia, May 01, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shijiazhuang-
05012008105258.html
Public Health
Beijing Smoking Ban Takes Effect
South China Morning Post, May 02, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af6
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Society
Angry China
The Economist, May 01, 2008
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm
Anti-French Boycott Falters in China
New York Times, May 01, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/world/asia/
02china.html?ref=world
Tibet
青海同仁县再拘隆务寺多名僧侣 (100 Tibetan Monks Detained in Qinghai)
Radio Free Asia, May 01, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/qinghai-05
012008173314.html