Top News of the Day
Land Policy
China Police "Shoot Two" in Village Land Protest
Reuters, April 22, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/
idUSHKG30280320080422
Chinese police allegedly shot dead two Yunnan villagers on April 20 amid a land dispute between villagers and a mining company. It was reported that riot police were deployed to the locale after 100 villagers clashed with Zijin Mining workers over the company's offers of compensation and relocations for buying up small mines. Twenty people were also wounded in the incident, and an unidentified police official told a Hong Kong newspaper that the shootings were in self-defense and that just one person was killed.
News
Bilateral Ties
Britain Says Concerned over China Visa Curbs
Reuters, April 23, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndR
etailNews/idUSPEK29398920080422?sp=true080422?sp=
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Corruption
Convicted Chinese Communist Party Boss Won't Appeal
Associated Press (available at YahooNews), April 22, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080422/ap_on_re_as/china
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Human Rights Defender - Hu Jia (胡佳)
Hu Jia Will Not Challenge Verdict, Lawyer Says
Agence France-Presse (available at YahooNews), April 23, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62e
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Human Rights Defender - Hada
内蒙古异见人士哈达狱中状况每况愈下 (IMAR Dissident Hada's Health Deteriorates in Jail)
Radio Free Asia, April 22, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/hada-
04222008164336.html
Land Policy
Crackdown as Farmers Fight to Own Land They Till
South China Morning Post, April 23, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62e
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新楼盘背后的流血冲突 (The Bloody Clashes behind the New Estate in Shaoguan, Guangdong)
Nanfang City News, April 23, 2008
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/southnews/jwxy/20080
4230001.asp
Law
14律师起诉CNN卡弗蒂 (Fourteen Beijing Lawyers Sue CNN and Jack Cafferty)
The Beijing News, April 23, 2008
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/beijing/2008/04-23
/021@074216.htm
禁止歧视残疾人范围拟扩大 (Legislators Consider Enlarging Scope of Prohibition on Discrimination Against People with Disabilities)
The Beijing News, April 23, 2008
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/guonei/2008/04-23
/021@082331.htm
China's Top Legislature Outlines Priorities of Work in 2008
Xinhuanet, April 22, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/22/content_
8031493.htm
Media
UPDATE 1-FT Aims to Launch Magazine in China before Olympics
Reuters, April 22, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomN
ews/idUSSP14717520080422?sp=truesp=true
Olympics
Supporters Told to Turn Out for Olympic Torch
South China Morning Post, April 23, 2008
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China Alters Coverage of Olympic Flame's Everest Ascent
Associated Press (available at YahooNews), April 22, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080422/ap_on_re_as/ol
ympic_torch_everest_1;_ylt=AleV7OBZ3vHIAjhdLIlO7Jx
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China Calls for Halt in 'Radical' Anti-France Demonstrations
Associated Press (available at YahooNews), April 22, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080422/ap_on_re_as/chin
a_france_1;_ylt=AlJNUjpZK5686yb9ULLMk3hPzWQA6yb9
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Senior Chinese Leader Hails Beijing's Efforts to Achieve Green Olympics
Xinhuanet, April 22, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/23/content
_8031664.htm
Protests and Petitions
中国武汉地区精神病院非法长期关押上访群体，引起公众社会关注 (Concern Grows over Wuhan's Prolonged Detention of Petitioners in Psychiatric Hospitals)
Radio Free Asia, April 22, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shangfang-
04222008154446.html
访民被打死案在北京开审 数百访民庭外声援被打 (Petitioners Beaten Outside Beijing Court for Voicing Support for Family of Petitioner Who Was Beaten to Death)
Radio Free Asia, April 22, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fangmin-
04222008104408.html
Tibet
当局逼藏民持国旗合影 甘孜再有藏人自杀 (Tibetan Monks Forced to Take Photos with National Flag; One Monk Commits Suicide)
Radio Free Asia, April 22, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zang-
04222008153621.html