News
Children
In
Reuters (via Yahoo! News), June 28, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090629/wl_nm/us_china_trafficking
Disasters
Shanghai Authorities Hold 9 in Connection with Building Collapse, Order Safety Checks
Associated Press, June 29, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-as-china-building-collapse,1,2363085.story
Green Dam
Companies Appeal to
Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), June 27, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_as/as_china_internet
Reuters, June 26, 2009
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE55P4K720090626
Human Rights Defenders -- Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
國際律師協會函溫總 關注維權律師受打壓 (International Bar Association Writes Premier Wen on The Targetting of Rights Defense Lawyers)
Ming Pao, June 29, 2009
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090629/4/cxln.html
Related information:
China: Targeting of Defence Lawyers (国际律师协会（IBA）致函总理温家宝关注内地维权律师执业考核受阻)
Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, June 19, 2009
English: http://www.ibanet.org/Human_Rights_Institute/About_the_HRI/HRI_Activities/HRI_Media/HRI_Interventions/Int_China_June09.aspx
中文翻译: http://www.64tianwang.com/bencandy.php?fid=12&aid=4629
刘晓波被捕后首度会见律师 (Liu Xiaobo Meets with Lawyers for The First Time Since Arrest)
Radio France Internationale, June 27, 2009
http://www.rfi.fr/actucn/articles/114/article_14525.asp
Human Rights Defenders
Snitching for China Leads to Sorrow and Exile
Associated Press (via Google News), June 28, 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iq2FRnRWuIfqo-BqFTvCtWFX9MDQD99360QO0
For more information on the New Youth Study Group, see:
Case Update: Beijing Intellectuals Yang Zili and Zhang Honghai Released after Eight Years in Prison
Human Rights in China, March 12, 2009
http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/141758
Law
How China Justifies Empty Witness Chairs
Caijing Magazine, June 26, 2009
http://english.caijing.com.cn/2009-06-26/110189954.html
Original article in Chinese:
最该出庭的人在哪里
Caijing Magazine, June 22, 2009
http://magazine.caijing.com.cn/2009-06-21/110187313.html
Xinhua News Agency, June 27, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/27/content_11609763.htm
Related information:
关于废止部分法律的决定 (Resolution on Abolishing Certain Legislation)
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, June 27, 2009
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/lfgz/zxfl/2009-06/27/content_1508553.htm
China Revises Statistics Law to Curb Data Falsification
Xinhua News Agency, June 27, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/27/content_11609707.htm
Related information:
中华人民共和国统计法 (Law on Statistics of the People's Republic of China) (revised)
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, June 27, 2009
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/lfgz/zxfl/2009-06/27/content_1508548.htm
Xinhua News Agency, June 27, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/27/content_11609910.htm
Related information:
中华人民共和国农村土地承包经营纠纷调解仲裁法 (Law of the People's Republic of China on the Mediation and Arbitration of Rural Land Contract Management Disputes)
National People's Congress, June 27, 2009
http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/xinwen/lfgz/zxfl/2009-06/27/content_1508550.htm
佛山稔海25名村民因保护自己的合法权益而获刑 (25 Foshan Villagers Sentenced After Defending Right to Fair Compensation)
Radio Free Asia, June 28, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/foshan-06282009145236.html
Media
近日中国大陆互联网使用困难不断 (Chinese Netizens Encounter Difficulties Using Various Popular Online Sites over Past Few Days)
Radio Free Asia, June 26, 2009
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/wangluo-06262009101145.html
Politics
Reshuffle Targets Judicial Corruption
South China Morning Post, June 29, 2009
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=86d4286e55722210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD
Protests and Petitions
港資廠民族群毆120死傷 驚動政治局 急遷走600新疆籍員工 (2 Dead, 118 Injured in Clash between Han and Newly-hired Uyghur Workers at Guangdong Toy Factory)
Ming Pao (via Yahoo! News), June 27, 2009
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090626/4/cwme.html
Rumormonger Held over South China Toy Factory Brawl
Xinhua News Agency, June 29, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/29/content_11616274.htm
Public Health
山东卫生厅调查“东明肿瘤” (Shandong Provincial Bureau of Health to Investigate Large Number of Tumors in Dongming County)
The Beijing News, June 26, 2009
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/guonei/2009/06-26/008@015815.htm