Friday, May 15, 2009

May 15, 2009

News

Corruption
Disgraced Official's Return to Similar Job Sparks Outrage
South China Morning Post, May 15, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0
a0/?vgnextoid=456c711987f31210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Disasters
Political Tremors
South China Morning Post, May 14, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0
a0/?vgnextoid=cc37ee62dd931210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Economic Development
社科院内部人士自批楼市蓝皮书:分析预测都错 (Harsh Criticism from within of Recent CASS Report on Real Estate Market)
Net Ease, May 15, 2009
http://news.163.com/09/0515/07/59BDD4DO000120GU.html

June 4th
June 4 is History, I Speak for HK, Says Tsang - Then Has to Apologise
South China Morning Post, May 15, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0
a0/?vgnextoid=82f900d560041210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Secret Memoir Offers Look inside China’s Politics
New York Times, May 15, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/world/asia/15zhao.html

六四20周年剑桥大学将举办放水灯悼念六四受难者的仪式 (Lamp Lighting Ceremony Planned at Cambridge in Honor of June 4th Victims)
Radio Free Asia, May 14, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/64-05142009160024.html

Labor
160 in China Hospital over Possible Factory Pollution: Report
Agence France-Presse (via YahooNews), May 14, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090514/hl_afp/chinaenvironmentairpollution

Related News
What Caused Mass Illness? Workers, Experts Disagree
China Daily, May 14, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-05/14/content_7778917.htm
Law
发言违法? 陕西高院“公民代表”制度引争议 (Experiment in Shaanxi to Hear "Citizens' Representatives" in Court Sparks Debate)
Xinhuanet, May 14, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-05/14/content_11372974.htm

Media
东:“八星级办公大楼”发帖者遭刑讯死系造谣 (Reports of Web User Tortured to Death for Posting about Govt Building Are Untrue)
Xinhuanet, May 14, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-05/14/content_11374144.htm

Protests and Petitions
上海用假精神病鉴定剥夺访民诉讼权 (False Mental Illness Documents Used to Deprive Petitioners of Rights)
Radio Free Asia, May 14, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/shanghai-05142009123810.html

福建调动军队强征土地视频曝光 (Video Reveals Troop Involvement in 2007 Fujian Land Grab)
Radio Free Asia, May 14, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fujian-05142009135438.html

Public Health
'Suicide' Epidemic Has City Reeling
China Daily, May 15, 2009
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-05/15/content_7780131.htm

內地發現79入境發熱燒病人 (79 People with Fever Found Crossing Border to Mainland)
Ming Pao, May 14, 2009
http://www.mpinews.com/htm/INews/20090514/ca41948c.htm

Shandong Declares Health Emergency, Quarantines 23
Shanghai Daily, May 14, 2009
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200905/20090514/article_400848.htm