Bilateral Ties
China Needs to Do Much More on Human Rights - Rudd
Reuters, August 08, 2008
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-34891920080808
Environment
China Sets New Rules in Bid to Cut Energy Use
Xinhua (via Shanghai Daily), August 08, 2008
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200808/20080808/article_369725.htm
Human Rights Defender - Hua Huiqi (华惠棋)
Chinese Activist Detained on Way to Church
Associated Press (via Google), August 10, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ho1JVdniEIT_lYOTG9jw7Lla_o_gD92FDUSO0
Human Rights Defender - Huang Qi (黄琦)Related news:
Chinese Activist Still Missing after Detention
Associated Press (via Google), August 11, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3OMvEA_ehIHkQwvUsKHCWZ5QzIAD92FT5G80
Mother of Quake Activist Makes Third Appeal for Medical Parole
South China Morning Post, August 09, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=63b76687842ab110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD
Human Rights Defender - Zeng Jinyan (曾金燕)
Chinese Rights Activist Zeng Jinyan Disappears
Associated Press (via Google), August 10, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGtTrBpkUffPzYAENMTtc8HAqaBgD92EPP6O0
Media
China Keen to Show World Its Media Openness
Reuters, August 10, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSPEK8096520080811
High-jumping China's Firewall
Asia Times Online, August 09, 2008
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JH09Dj02.html
Website Blocking Is for Your Own Good, Games Chiefs Tell Chinese
Agence France-Presse (via Google), August 10, 2008
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVB6y8xHwkeAOIxmHBI5pNqUHgGA
Olympics
American Tourist Killed in Attack
China Daily, August 10, 2008
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-08/10/content_6922020.htm
Behind Murder of American in Beijing, a Tale of Despair and Dislocation
International Herald Tribune, August 10, 2008
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/10/asia/beijing.php
Five Stage Pro-Tibet "Die-in" in Tiananmen Square (Roundup)
Deutsche Presse Agentur (via Monsters and Critics), August 11, 2008
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/sport/olympics2008/news/article_1422670.php/Five_stage_pro-Tibet_"die-in%22_in_Tiananmen_Square__Roundup_
From Beijing to Battery Park, Activists Stress Causes
New York Times, August 09, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/sports/olympics/09protest.html
HK Pro-democracy Activist Ejected from Olympic Venue
Agence France-Presse (via Google), August 10, 2008
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ij7Egq2IPSB2HetOQYAH60fdH6NA
Protester Hides Tibet Flag under Canadian Flag at Olympic Event
CBC, August 09, 2008
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/08/canadatibet-flag.html
Protests in Beijing? No Sign of Any at Designated Parks
Los Angeles Times, August 08, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/asia/la-fg-protest9-2008aug09,0,6994179.story
Vanishing Act
The Boston Globe, August 10, 2008
http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2008/08/10/vanishing_act/
State Security
South Korean Arrested in Air China Bomb Threat
Associated Press (via International Herald Tribune), August 11, 2008
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/11/asia/AS-Japan-China-Bomb-Threat.php
State-owned Enterprises
China Will Speed up Mergers in SOEs
Shanghai Daily, August 11, 2008
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=370011
Tibet
甘孜军警向两名散发传单的尼姑开枪 (Garze, Sichuan Officers Open Fire on Two Nuns Distributing Leaflets)
Radio Free Asia, August 08, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/tibetan_monks-08082008111132.html
XUAR
Backlash over Chinese Handling of Muslim Minority
ABC News, August 08, 2008
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5542322
New Spasm of Violence in Western China as 11 Die in Wave of Bombings
International Herald Tribune, August 11, 2008
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/11/asia/11xinjiang-2.php