News
Bilateral Ties
China and US both Claim Victory after WTO Ruling on Piracy
South China Morning Post, March 22, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0
a0/?vgnextoid=a24f8f561d920210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD
Disasters
China Quake School Toll Stirs Grim Findings and Anger
Reuters, March 22, 2009
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE52L05E20090322
Environment
Province Supplying Beijing Water Drying Up: State
Agence France-Presse (available at YahooNews), March 22, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090322/wl_asia_afp/chinawaterdrought
June 4th
Ex-soldier in 1989 China Crackdown Reportedly Held
Associated Press (available at YahooNews), March 20, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090320/ap_on_re_as/as_china_crackdown_veteran
Police
公安部决定开展“人民警察核心价值观”讨论活动 (Public Security Ministry Holds Discussion on "Core Values" of Police)
Xinhuanet, March 20, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-03/20/content_11039329.htm
Protests and Petitions
河南一钢铁公司拖欠工人工资和保险金导致群体事件 (Owed Backwages Sparks "Mass Incident" in Henan)
Radio Free Asia, March 22, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/he-03222009164252.html
Public Health
河南手足口病瞞報兩官被炒 (Official Dismissed for Covering Up Foot and Mouse Disease in Henan)
Ming Pao News, March 22, 2009
http://www.mpinews.com/htm/INews/20090322/ca72343c.htm
Blood Donor Scam Claims Farmer's Life
Shanghai Daily, March 20, 2009
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200903/20090320/article_394899.htm
Society
周勍获中文笔会自由写作奖 透视食品安全著作大陆被删 (Zhou Qing, Writer Who Exposed Food Safety Concerns, Given Chinese PEN Freedom Award)
Radio Free Asia, March 22, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zhou-03222009141934.html
State Security
Three Die in Bomb Attack at Mine Office
South China Morning Post, March 21, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0
a0/?vgnextoid=36d9e6984e420210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD
Chinese Guard Shot Dead in Attack
BBC, March 20, 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7954712.stm
Chinese 'Spy' Urges US to Press on Rights
Agence France-Presse (via Google), March 20, 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ipXYPkPBNnz9RtuBT4RrTEiKDd
dg
Tibet
Monks Held After Qinghai Police Attack
Xinhuanet (available at Shanghai Daily), March 23, 2009
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200903/20090323/article_395155.htm
Panchen Lama Calls for Support of China's Communist Party
Voice of America, March 23, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-22-voa7.cfm
New Video of Torture Exposes Chinese Brutality in Tibet
Telegraph.co.uk, March 20, 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/5023967/New-video-of-torture-
exposes-Chinese-brutality-in-Tibet.html