March 16, 2010

News

Corruption
Official Sacked After Diary Excerpts Reveal Sexual Exploits, Graft
South China Morning Post, March 16, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=464996ea1c267210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Disasters
Drought Forecast to Worsen in Guangxi
Xinhua News Agency (via China Daily), March 16, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/16/content_9596003.htm

25 Dead in Central China Coal Mine Fire
Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), March 16, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100316/ap_on_re_as/as_china_coal_mine_fire

Government
Township Officials List All Spending
China Daily, March 16, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/16/content_9594002.htm

Hukou
Shanghai May Further Relax Hukou System
China Daily, March 16, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/16/content_9594010.htm

Human Rights Defender - Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤)
当局拒绝家人探望被劳教的毛恒凤 (Authorities Refuse to Allow Mao's Family Visit Her)
Radio Free Asia, March 15, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/petitioner_abuse-03152010123202.html

Human Rights Defenders
官報罕見談劉曉波胡佳 (Liu Xiaobo, Hu Jia Mentioned in Chinese State-run Newspaper)
Ming Pao, March 16, 2010
http://news.mingpao.com/20100316/cae1.htm

Internet Censorship

Erasers Purge Cyberspace of 'Bad Press'
South China Morning Post, March 16, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=265996ea1c267210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Media
Google Says China Talks Continue, But Pullout Signs Grow
Reuters (via Yahoo! News), March 15, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100315/bs_nm/us_google_china

Google Exit Would Open a Door for Microsoft

The Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2010

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704588404575124062948976720.html

China Issues Warning to Major Partners of Google
New York Times, March 15, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/asia/15google.html

Protests and Petitions
China Compensates Evicted Artists
New York Times, March 15, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/world/asia/16beijing.html

Public Health
94 People in SW China Found to Have Lead Poisoning
China Post, March 15, 2010
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/local-news/other/2010/03/15/248421/94-people.htm

XUAR
China to Ramp up Investment in Restive Xinjiang
Agence France-Presse (via Yahoo! News), March 15, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100315/wl_asia_afp/chinacongressnpcxinjiangunrest