News
Death Penalty
Death Sentence for Fraudster
Shanghai Daily, September 16, 2008
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=373904
Environment
China Government Adviser Urges Greenhouse Gas Cuts
Reuters, September 16, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/naturalResources/idUSPEK19898020080915
Energy Demand May Ease by 2018 in China
Xinhuanet, September 16, 2008
http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-09/16/content_10027149.htm
Food Security
China Toxic Milk Victim Count Expected to Rise
Reuters, September 16, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSPEK1418720080916
China Arrests Brothers in Milk Powder Probe
Washington Post, September 15, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091501100.html
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Chinese Authorities 'Covered up Baby Milk Scandal because of Olympics'
The Telegraph, September 15, 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2961262/Chinese-authorities-covered-up-baby-milk-scandal-because-of-Olympics.html
Free Care Denied Babies despite Decree
South China Morning Post, September 16, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=1fec99c89e66c110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD
Human Rights Defenders
上海访民林继亮奥运期间被关押出来不能说话 (Elderly Shanghai Petitioner Lin Jiliang in Poor Health following Release from Detention during Olympics)
Radio Free Asia , September 15, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fang-09152008093043.html
异议人士邓太清遭当局拘留和抄家 (Shanxi Activist Deng Taiqing Detained, Subject to Home Search)
Radio Free Asia, September 15, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/dissident_assault-09152008111234.html
Labor
China Chemical Plant Blast Death Toll Rises to Two, One Missing
Xinhuanet, September 16, 2008
http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-09/15/content_10010949.htm
Media
Censorship Hammer Comes Down over Scandal
South China Morning Post, September 16, 2008
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=279c99c89e66c110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD
Migrant Workers
湖南拟施行居住证制度 立法赋外来人口市民待遇 (Hunan Issues Draft Regulations Stipulating Migrant Workers Can Apply for a Residence Permit Granting Same Treatment as Local Residents)
Legal Daily, September 16, 2008
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/2008-09/16/content_945586.htm
Related information:
《湖南省流动人口服务和管理规定(草案)》征求意见 (Soliciting Opinions on the
"Draft Hunan Provincial Regulations on Servicing and Managing Migrant Workers")
People's Government of Hunan Province, September 08, 2008
http://www.hnsfzb.gov.cn/Item/2411.aspx
Multilateral
UN Honors 5 Chinese in Promoting Rights of Disabled
Xinhuanet, September 15, 2008
http://rss.xinhuanet.com/newsc/english/2008-09/15/content_10020601.htm
Protests and Petitions
受压上海访民奥运后重新申请游行 (Shanghai Petitioners Apply for Demonstration in People's Square)
Radio Free Asia, September 16, 2008
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shanghai-09152008143449.html
Society
全职家庭主妇成为新的自杀高危人群 (Guangzhou Crisis Research and Intervention Center: Housewives High Risk for Suicide)
Nanfang Daily, September 16, 2008
http://news.cyol.com/content/2008-09/16/content_2358461.htm
Tibet
Tibet Monk in Hiding Tells of Interrogation, Abuse
Associated Press (via Google), September 15, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5giC5O5VbQ0i1kfspRBW4diuGgdWQD936IQ701