News
Bilateral Ties
Japan Told to Keep Away from Diaoyu Islands
China Daily, February 06, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-02/06/content_7449776.htm
China Turns to British Charities to Plug Gaps Left by Communist Party
Telegraph.co.uk, February 05, 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4526715/China-turns-to-British-charities-to-plug-gaps-left-by-communist-party.html
Civil Society
China Social Welfare Organizations Aid 1.9 mln People in 2008
Xinhuanet, February 05, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/05/content_10769708.htm
Disasters
Nearly 90,000 Killed in Natural Disasters in '08
Xinhua (via China Daily), February 06, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-02/05/content_7449467.htm
Environment
Dam May Have Triggered Huge China Quake: Scientists
Agence France-Presse (via YahooNews), February 05, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090205/wl_asia_afp/chinaquakescienceenvironmentengineering
Government
China's State Council Appoints Senior Officials
Xinhuanet, February 05, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/05/content_10769617.htm
Human Rights Defender - Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
1/13億的不自由 劉曉波北京被拘60天 (Liu Xiaobo Detained for 60 Days)
China Times, February 06, 2009
http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-News/2007Cti-News-Content/0,4521,130505+132009020600811,00.html
Human Rights Defenders
After Six Years, Diplomatic Lifeline Allows Chinese Dissident to Reunite with Family
The Globe and Mail, February 05, 2009
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090205.DISSIDENT05/TPStory/National
June 4
Police Block Events ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary
Associated Press (via YahooNews), February 05, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_re_as/as_china_tiananmen_anniversary
Labor
Intel Plans to Relocate Jobs, Shut Local Plant
Shanghai Daily, February 06, 2009
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200902/20090206/article_390062.htm
防范企业随意裁员 上海规定裁员须报告 (New Shanghai Government Document Requires Reporting of Staff Reduction)
Wenhuibao (via Xinhuanet), February 06, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2009-02/06/content_10772034.htm
Media
港澳記者赴內地要領採訪證 (New Rules for HK, Macao Journalists Require Permit to Report in Mainland)
Ming Pao, February 06, 2009
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090206/4/ajvd.html
Related information:
香港澳门记者在内地采访办法 (Measures on the Reporting Activities of Hong Kong and Macanese Journalists in Mainland China)
Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, February 6, 2009
http://www.gov.cn/jrzg/2009-02/06/content_1223436.htm
Multilateral
聯合國下週審議中國人權 (UN to Review China's Human Rights on Feb 9)
China Times, February 06, 2009
http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-News/2007Cti-News-Content/0,4521,130505+132009020600810,00.html
Police
四川老太被民警反铐双手拖行百米身亡 (Elderly Sichuanese Woman Dies after Being Cuffed and Dragged by Police)
Sina.com, February 06, 2009
http://news.sina.com.cn/s/2009-02-06/080617160088.shtml
Protests and Petitions
China Police Take Away Citizens Airing Grievances
Associated Press (via Google), February 06, 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5giTztR3Q-N_HzD1QpNL4ecZgMQEAD965TGIG0
Workers Protest as Italian Sofa Maker Folds in China
Agence France-Presse (via Google), February 05, 2009
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/02/workers-protest-as-italian-sofa-maker-folds-in-china/
Religion
中国华南教会多人被捕禁见家人律师 (Several Chinese Hua'nan Church Members Detained, Forbidden from Seeing Families or Lawyers)
Radio Free Asia, February 05, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zongjiao-02052009132648.html
Social Security
S China Province Lowers Social Insurance Premiums to Save Jobs
Xinhuanet, February 05, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/05/content_10769923.htm
Three Gorges
Thousands of Farmers to Be Uprooted Again
Reuters (available at South China Morning Post), February 06, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=a43eda439474f110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD