Thursday, December 10, 2009

December 10, 2009

News
Bilateral Ties
Chinese President to Visit Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
Xinhua News Agency, December 09, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/09/content_12616529.htm

Children
Action against Child Kidnaps 'Inadequate'
South China Morning Post, December 10, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=989e2a70e6375210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Government
深圳破获三起学生绑架案件 信息公开制度再受质疑 (Open Government Information System Being Challenged in Shenzhen's Kidnapping Case)
Guangming Daily (via Xinhua News Agency), December 10, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-12/10/content_12622672.htm

Human Rights
Nation's Human Rights Standing Getting Worse
Agence France-Presse (via Yahoo! News), December 10, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=f77e2a70e6375210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defender - Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
Leading Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Faces Subversion Case
Angola Press Agency, December 10, 2009
http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/internacional/2009/11/50/Leading-Chinese-dissident-Liu-Xiaobo-faces-subversion-case,27243eff-f997-49a7-88a3-a0b8e908dab1.html

Internet Censorship
互联网举报中心曝光10家传播低俗内容的网站名单 (China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre (CIIRC) Discloses 10 "Vulgar" Websites)
Xinhua News Agency, December 10, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-12/09/content_12617846.htm

Land Policy
China to Resettle at Least 440,000 for Water Project
Agence France-Presse (via Yahoo! News), December 09, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091209/wl_asia_afp/chinaenvironmentwater

Media
中国再次成为拘押记者最多国家(图) (China Continues to Be World's Worst Jailer of Journalists: CPJ)
Radio Free Asia, December 09, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/jizhe-12092009144013.html

Poverty
China to Raise Earnings of Middle-and-Low Income Groups: Official
Xinhua News Agency, December 09, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/09/content_12619970.htm

Taiwan
Wu Apologizes for Calling the Independence Supporters 'Idiots'
China Post, December 10, 2009
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2009/12/10/235890/Wu-apologizes.htm