July 15, 2010

News
Environment
Animal Waste a Threat to Clean Water Supply
China Daily, July 15, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-07/15/content_10108361.htm

Mine Pollution Ravages Farmland
China Daily, July 15, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-07/15/content_10108357.htm

Environmental Watchdog Lashes Out After Spill
South China Morning Post, July 15, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=e6e220b91a1d9210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defender -- Teng Biao ( 滕彪)
律师网上言论遭打压 公安拟开微博拓宣传 (Lawyers’ Online Speech Repressed; MPS to Set up Microblogs for Propaganda)
Radio Free Asia, July 14, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/yanlun-07142010105225.html

Labor
New Strike Hits Honda Parts Supplier in China
Reuters, July 15, 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE66E05J20100715

Law
China Ponders Closing 'Outdated' Re-education Labour Camps
The Daily Telegraph, July 13, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7887359/China-ponders-closing-outdated-re-education-labour-camps.html

陕西农民被疑杀人遭羁押472天 索赔遭拒绝 (Shaanxi Farmer’s Compensation Claim Rejected after 472-day Wrongful Detention)
China Business View, July 15, 2010
http://news.163.com/10/0715/04/6BJTF2JF00014AED.html

Media
中国媒体新一波整肃 停互通稿件杜异地监督 (New Wave of Chinese Media Purge: Coverage Release Exchanges Between Outlets Banned to Prevent “Remote Supervision”)
Radio Free Asia, July 14, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/meiti-07142010160118.html

China's Microblogs Facing New Restrictions
Associated Press, July 15, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_on_re_as/as_china_microblogs

Related News:
中国四门户网站否认将关闭微博服务 (Four Chinese Portals Deny Closing Microblogging Platform)
British Broadcasting Corporation, July 14, 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2010/07/100714_china_twitter.shtml

Migrant Workers
Beijing Starts Gating, Locking Migrant Villages
Associated Press, July 15, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_on_re_as/as_china_fenced_in

Protests and Petitions
反映上海强拆 胡燕在纽约联合国总部前已坚持100天 (Expo Evictee Hu Yan Petitions Outside New York UN Headquarters for 100 Days)
Radio Free Asia, July 14, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/qiangchai-07142010100001.html

Villagers Riot over Poisoned Water
South China Morning Post, July 15, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=f11d20b91a1d9210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Related News:
广西千村民冲污染厂 堵路抗议多人被拘 (Guangxi: Many Arrested after 1000+ Villagers Protest to Polluting Factory)
Radio Free Asia, July 14, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/wuran-07142010100347.html

Public Health
Child Dead, 104 Sick After Taking Malaria Medication in SW China
Xinhua News Agency, July 15, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2010-07/15/content_10107600.htm

广东被查封精神病院重新开张 曾贩卖精神病人 (Guangdong Psychiatric Hospital Reopens after Closing for Trafficking Mental Patients)
Southern Daily, July 15, 2010
http://news.163.com/10/0715/08/6BKBNMQ900014AED.html

Tibet
Tibet's Next Leader?
Agence France-Presse, July 14, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100714/wl_sthasia_afp/chinatibetindiareligiondalaikarmapa

No Room to Talk in 'Stable' Tibet
British Broadcasting Corporation, July 15, 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia+pacific-10617453