March 14-16, 2009

News
Bilateral Ties
Beijing Raises Stakes with Tit-For-Tat Deployment in South China Sea
Times Online, March 16, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5912597.ece

Food Security
记者走访：大部分饭馆用的面粉都含有增白剂 (Most Flour Used in Restaurants Include Bleach)
Economic Information Daily, March 16, 2009
http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/1037/8964390.html

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小心：馒头中有敌敌畏 (Be Careful: There's DDVP in Your Steamed Buns)
Radio Free Asia, March 14, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/man-03132009224415.html

Hukou
上海户籍新政不是被迫作秀 符合条件人员会逐年增加 (Trial Shanghai Hukou Policy Not Just for Show; Qualified Residents to Increase Each Year)
People's Daily, March 16, 2009
http://sh.eastday.com/qtmt/20090316/u1a548443.html

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持有《上海市居住证》人员申办本市常住户口试行办法 (Provisional Measures on Bidding for a Permanent Shanghai Hukou by Holders of a Shanghai Residence Permit) Shanghai Municipal People's Government, February 23, 2009
http://sh.eastday.com/qtmt/20090223/u1a539714.html

Human Rights Defenders
曾节明泰国申请避难 谴责联合国难民署拒绝面谈 (Dissident Zeng Jieming Unable to Meet with UN Official in Thailand to Apply for Refugee Status)
Radio Free Asia, March 16, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/refuge-03132009162441.html

Labor
甘肅兩日兩礦難 再死7人 (Another Seven Dead in Two Days in Gansu Mine Disaster)
Ming Pao, March 15, 2009
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/94/1/1/1068723/1.html

Law
最高法将出台受理信息公开案件的司法解释 (SPC to Issue Explanation on Hearing Open Government Information Cases Soon)
The Beijing News, March 16, 2009
http://news.163.com/09/0316/03/54GCGMT10001124J.html

Macao
Hong Kong Democrats Barred from Macau
Reuters, March 16, 2009
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=893442

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5 Hong Kong Pan-Democrats Denied Entry into Macao
Apple Daily, March 16, 2009
http://appledaily.atnext.com/template/apple/art_main.cfm?iss_id=20090316&sec_id=4104&subsec_id=11866&art_id=12496591

Protests and Petitions
26 Police Injured in Fight with 200 Oil Workers, Group Says
South China Morning Post, March 15, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=a79ef2a880600210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Taiwan
China to Let Taiwan in World Health Assembly: Report
Taiwan News, March 14, 2009
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=892598

Taiwan Pushes for Removal of Anti-Secession Law
South China Morning Post, March 15, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=135ef2a880600210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Tibet
Chinese Police 'Search Houses in Lhasa for Non-Tibetans'
Telegraph.co.uk, March 13, 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4984659/Chinese-police-search-houses-in-Lhasa-for-non-Tibetans.html

Tibetan Exiles Report Small Protests ahead of Sensitive Anniversary
Voice of America, March 16, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-16-voa1.cfm?rss=asia

EU Parliament Slammed for Tibet Resolution
Xinhua (via China Daily), March 13, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-03/13/content_7578360.htm