April 27, 2010

News

Bilateral Ties
Japan Firm to Pay Chinese Wartime Laborers
China Daily, April 27, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-04/27/content_9777980.htm

Human Rights Defenders

Mongolian Activist Missing, Group Says

Reuters (via South China Morning Post), April 27, 2010

http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=1d90f036bca38210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Law
拘留程序合法 超期羁押也可获赔 (Overdue Custody Is Compensable Regardless of Whether Detention Procedures Are Lawful)
Southern Metropolis Daily, April 27, 2010
http://epaper.nddaily.com/A/html/2010-04/27/content_1065926.htm

Migrant Workers
Few China Workers with Lung Disease Get Redress - Rights Group
Reuters, April 27, 2010
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE63P10620100426

Protests and Petitions
上访人员被关押当地党校 副镇长亲自看守 (Petitioner Detained in Central Party School in Guangdong, Guarded by Local Deputy Mayor of Township Gov't)
Southern Daily, April 27, 2010
http://news.163.com/10/0427/04/658GVTBK00011229.html

川震死難學童家長 中紀委請願遭回絕 (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Rebuffs Petitioning Parents of Sichuan Quake Victims)
Ming Pao, April 27, 2010
http://news.mingpao.com/20100427/cac1.htm

防城港公安开枪发催泪弹 维权四农民中枪数十人受伤 (Police, Villagers Clash in Guangxi over Forced Eviction; 4 Shot, Dozens Injured)
Radio Free Asia, April 26, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fangcheng-04262010092336.html

Police Detain Two for Death in Land Protest
China Daily, April 27, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-04/27/content_9780432.htm

Public Health
Imbalance Grows at Chinese Hospitals
New York Times, April 27, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/business/global/27iht-riedmedchin.html

State Security
保密法修订草案拟规定网站应配合泄密案调查 (Internet Operators Must Cooperate with Authorities in Probe of State Secret Leak: State Secrets Law Amendment Bill)
Beijing News, April 27, 2010
http://news.163.com/10/0427/01/6587PE0600014AED.html

China Defines Commercial Secrets, Tells Firms to Protect Them
The Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703465204575207760568382020.html

Taiwan
Lawmakers Wage New Battle over Students From China the KMT Says First Reading of Amendments Was Approved but the DPP Disagrees
Taiwan News, April 27, 2010
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1238057

Tibet
Top Tibetan Writer Held Over Book on Riots
South China Morning Post, April 27, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=3800f036bca38210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Related News:

Tibetan Writer Detained after Quake Critique
Associated Press, April 27, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100426/ap_on_re_as/as_china_earthquake

Officials Promise to Repair Monasteries
Agence France-Presse (via South China Morning Post), April 27, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=1d60f036bca38210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

XUAR
Favours and Billions to Ease Tension in Xinjiang
South China Morning Post, April 27, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=d930f036bca38210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD