July 05-07, 2008

News
Disasters
China Issues Guidelines on Post-Quake Reconstruction
Xinhuanet, July 04, 2008
http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-07/04/content_8491515.htm

Relief Efforts Fall Short of Remote Towns
South China Morning Post, July 07, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=edd72ca24e8fa110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

中国当局警告律师不得代理四川地震受害者索偿 (Authorities Warn Lawyers to Not Represent Sichuan Earthquake Victims in Reimbursement Cases)
Radio Free Asia, July 04, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/rights_lawyer-07042008111816.html

Environment
Warming May Cause Rapid Plant Species Loss on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Xinhuanet, July 06, 2008
http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-07/06/content_8498318.htm

Hong Kong
China Bars Radical HK Democrat from Sichuan Visit
Reuters, July 04, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSHKG34224920080704

Hong Kong Democrats Call on Chinese VP to Speed Polls
Reuters, July 6, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSHKG36851420080706

Journalists' Association Warns on Nationalism
South China Morning Post, July 07, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=cc852ca24e8fa110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

No Red Tape for Sichuan Rebuilding, Delegates Told
South China Morning Post, July 07, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=b5262ca24e8fa110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defender
“肝胆相照论坛”负责人陆军回国在海关被扣查 ("In the Hepatitis B Camp" Webmaster Lu Jun Detained by Customs for Several Hours upon Returning to China)
Radio Free Asia, July 04, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/rights_detain-07042008110310.html

Human Rights Defenders
China's New Freedom Fighters
The Guardian, July 06, 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/06/china.humanrights

Labor
Accident at Chinese Mine Kills 21
BBC, July 06, 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7492146.stm

Law
Lawyers Use Bogus Big-Cat Case to Push Government to Improve the Rule of Law
South China Morning Post, July 07, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=cdb72ca24e8fa110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Media
Chinese Bloggers Score a Victory against the Government: Firings Indicate Growing Power; Exploits of 'Zola'
Wall Street Journal, July 07, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121533126228630499.html

Olympics
‘Anti-China’ Groups Threaten Olympics
Financial Times, July 04, 2008
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/22eb9a82-49f7-11dd-891a-000077b07658.html

China Shuts Down Factories
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 07, 2008
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2296195.htm

Olympic Sailors Find Added Adversary in Qingdao: Pollution
Agence France-Presse (via Google), July 07, 2008
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_N9vizI8lf8MdBXCEldiPR4JNVA

Unmanned Drones to Serve Security Forces during Olympics
Xinhuanet, July 03, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/03/content_8485840.htm

Protests and Petitions
Corruption Cited in Guizhou Girl's Death; 4 Officials Sacked
South China Morning Post, July 05, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=500d00d4efeea110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Related news:
'We Didn't Do It', Male Friends of Dead Girl Say
China Daily, July 05, 2008
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-07/05/content_6821836.htm

男子拆迁房前被殴身亡 (Beijing Man Guarding Remains of Demolished Home Beaten to Death)
The Beijing News, July 04, 2008
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/beijing/2008/07-04/011@074936.htm

Veil Lifted on Gangsters' Power in Riot Town
South China Morning Post, July 07, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=10572ca24e8fa110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

烟台数百名军转干部周五上访被拦截 (Hundreds of Shandong Soldier-Turned-Cadres Intercepted while Petitioning Municipal People's Congress)
Radio Free Asia, July 04, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/petition_veteran-07042008105921.html

Religion
山东家庭教会牧师张忠心被判劳教两年 (Shandong House Church Pastor Zhang Zhongxin Sentenced to Two Years of Reeducation-Through-Labor)
Radio Free Asia, July 04, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/religion_family_church-07042008110933.html

Rural Issues
Auditors Find Counties Stole School Funds
South China Morning Post, April 05, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=5b3e00d4efeea110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Tibet
China Presses Dalai Lama ahead of Games
Reuters, July 07, 2008
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKPEK33239020080707

Tibet Talks Conclude with Little Progress
Washington Post, July 04, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070301663.html

Tibetan Monasteries Empty as China Jails Monks to Silence Olympic Protests
Times Online, July 07, 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4281932.ece

XUAR
Radical Islam Stirs in China's Remote West
Reuters, July 07, 2008
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKPEK13637820080707