March 9, 2009

News

Corruption
北川县违规购买超标车的相关责任人已被处理 (Sichuan Officials Disciplined for Using Relief Funds to Buy Brand Name Cars)
Xinhuanet, March 09, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/misc/2009-03/08/content_10969574.htm

Disasters
Chinese Official Defends Construction of Schools Felled in Quake
New York Times, March 09, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/world/asia/09sichuan.html

Gender
Domestic Violence Increases in China
Xinhua (via China Daily), March 07, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-03/07/content_7551147.htm

Government
Deadly Violence Taints China's Village Elections
Agence France-Presse (available at YahooNews), March 09, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090309/wl_asia_afp/chinacongressnpcdemocracycorrup
tion

Police
云南省30%的看守所没有监控设备 (30% of Detainment Centers in Yunnan Lack Surveillance Equipment)
Radio Free Asia, March 09, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/yun-03072009125850.html

Politics
Party Uncompromising on Reform in Sensitive Year
South China Morning Post, March 09, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0
a0/?vgnextoid=2d2694a8769ef110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Related News
China Can Not Copy Western Political System
Xinhua (via China Daily), March 09, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009npc/2009-03/09/content_7554538.htm

Protests and Petitions
Seeking Justice, Chinese Land in Secret Jails
New York Times, March 09, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/world/asia/09jails.html

人权组织呼吁立即停止对维权人士和访民的打压 (Human Rights Groups Call for End to Crackdown of Rights Defenders and Petitioners)
Radio Free Asia, March 06, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquan-03062009142300.html

Related News
Chinese Authorities Tighten Grip on Rights Defenders during NPC and CPPCC Sessions
Human Rights in China, March 5, 2009
http://hrichina.org/public/contents/138378

Activists 'Under House Arrest' during Congress
South China Morning Post, March 07, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=14b7eb01d4cdf110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

女访民趁妇女节在天安门散发传单遭拘押 (Women Detained for Distributing Flyers at Tiananmen on Women's Day)
Radio Free Asia, March 09, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/lu-03082009150657.html

Public Health
Gansu Reports 50% Rise in HIV Cases
Xinhua (via China Daily), March 08, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-03/08/content_7552299.htm

中國一億人患心理精神疾病 (One Hundred Million Chinese Suffer Mental Illness)
Ming Pao, March 08, 2009
http://www.mpinews.com/htm/INews/20090308/ca71240i.htm

Taiwan
Taiwanese Official Indicted on Spying for China
Associated Press (available at YahooNews), March 06, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090306/ap_on_re_as/as_taiwan_china_espionage

Tibet
China Strengthens Tibet Frontier to Deter Unrest
Reuters, March 09, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5280F220090309

Protest in Tibetan Area of China, Police Targeted: State Media
Agence France-Presse (available at YahooNews), March 09, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090309/wl_asia_afp/chinatibet50yearsunrestprotest

Tibet Always Open to Objective Foreign Reporters
Xinhua (via China Daily), March 09, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009npc/2009-03/06/content_7548302.htm

China Warns World against Hosting Dalai Lama
Reuters, March 07, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5260LR20090307

Related News
Dalai by No Means a Religious Figure, But a Political One: Chinese FM
Xinhuanet, March 7, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/07/content_10961657.htm

Tibetan Women Held for Protesting in Western China
Associated Press (available at YahooNews), March 07, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_on_re_as/as_china_tibet