Thursday, September 17, 2009

September 17, 2009

News
Bilateral Ties
US Makes China One of Its Four Top Targets for Spying
South China Morning Post, September 17, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=7d00ad700c3c3210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

US Military 'Cautiously Optimistic' on Relations
South China Morning Post, September 17, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=fc8d772a7c3c3210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defenders
四中全会和国庆期间异见人士遭监控 (Dissidents Monitored during the CPC Central Committee Session and National Day)
Voice of America, September 16, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2009-09-16-voa28.cfm

浙江公安全力打压 多位民主党人被软禁 (Zhejiang PSB Suppresses Dissidents, Democrats Put under House Arrest)
Radio Free Asia, September 16, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/daya-09162009130352.html

Media
China Boosts ‘Great Firewall’
Radio Free Asia, September 16, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/gfw-09162009120149.html

Protests and Petitions
北京严控访民 比奥运更甚 (Beijing Monitoring Petitioners More Closely than during Olympics)
Radio Free Asia, September 17, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fangmin-09152009133721.html

Public Health
China's "Cancer Villages" Bear Witness to Economic Boom
Reuters, September 17, 2009
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE58G00B20090917

Discarded Factory Chemicals Kill 3 in East China
Associated Press, September 16, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090916/ap_on_re_as/as_china_killer_waste

Hepatitis B Carrier Gets OK to Work in Food Industry
China Daily, September 17, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-09/17/content_8701429.htm

福建儿童血铅超标近千家长乡政府示威 (Around One Thousand Fujianese Parents Protest outside Government Buildings against High Levels of Lead in Children's Blood)
Radio Free Asia, September 17, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/qian-09152009133455.html

Religion
山西省临汾市家庭教会聚会场所遭警察捣毁 几十名信徒被打伤 (House Church in Shanxi Destroyed by Local Police, Tens of Believers Beaten and Injured)
Radio Free Asia, September 16, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/jiaohui-09162009161226.html

XUAR
中国称在新疆破获恐怖团伙6人被捕 (China Says It Has Arrested 6 Terrorists in XUAR)
British Broadcasting Corporation, September 16, 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_8250000/newsid_8258800/8258834.stm