Wednesday, April 08, 2009

April 8, 2009

News
Disasters
Child Disease Outbreak Kills 33 in Rural China
Reuters, April 07, 2009
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-38935520090407

Flooded Mine Kills 7; 5 Workers Still Missing
Xinhuanet (available at Shanghai Daily), April 07, 2009
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200904/20090407/article_396827.htm

Environment
Beijing Extends Post-Olympics Car Rules: Report
Agence France-Presse (available at YahooNews), April 06, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090406/sc_afp/chinaenvironmentpollutiontransport

June 4th
Activists in US to Mark Crackdown
South China Morning Post, April 07, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=7d9627fe55c70210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=hong+kong&s=news

Relatives, Friends Remember Tiananmen Victims
South China Morning Post, April 05, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=c6f59911ab170210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=china&s=news

Land Policy
China to Regularize Rural Land-use Rights Transfer with Model Contract
Xinhuanet, April 06, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/06/content_11140047.htm

Protests and Petitions
Protest at 'Mentally Ill' Slur by Academic
South China Morning Post, April 08, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=bba02b4597180210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=China&s=News

宣传08宪章 刘沙沙仍被软禁 (Henan Worker Still Under House Arrest After Distributing Copies of Charter 08)
Radio Free Asia, April 07, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/xianzhang-04072009144032.html

访民“涂鸦”中南海被捕(视频) (Petitioner Taken Away After Spray-painting on The Wall Outside Zhongnanhai in Beijing)
Radio Free Asia, April 07, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/graffti-04072009150146.html

上海访民被殴打 十多名声援者被扣押(图, 视频)(Shanghai Petitioners Beaten, Others Taken Away)
Radio Free Asia, April 07, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shanghai-04072009095900.html

Tibet
甘孜藏人贴标语被通缉 被虐死藏人父母遭株连("Wanted List" Out For Tibetans Putting up Pro-Independence Slogans; Tibetan Beaten to Death by Police, Parents Implicated)
Radio Free Asia, April 07, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/xizang-04072009120409.html