October 22, 2010

Top news
Nobel Peace Prize / Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波)
Police Temporarily Arrest Professor for Pro-Liu Xiaobo Plot
Mainichi Daily News, October 22, 2010
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/international/news/20101022p2g00m0dm026000c.html

刘晓波文集明年将在多个国家出版 (Works of Liu Xiaobo to Be Published in Several Countries Next Year)
Radio France Internationale, October 21, 2010
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/中国/20101021-刘晓波文集明年将在多个国家出版

香港民间团体接力声援刘晓波 “我为晓波”网站在中国遭封杀 (Hong Kong Liu Xiaobo Website Blocked in China)
Radio Free Asia, October 21, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/liu-10212010133318.html

News
Bilateral Ties
China Hits Out at US Commission's Report on Human Rights
Agence France-Presse, October 22, 2010
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20101021-243520.html

Related information:

2010 Annual Report on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China

Congressional-Executive Commission on China, October 10, 2010

http://www.cecc.gov/pages/annualRpt/annualRpt10/index.php

Disasters
廣西小學欄杆坍塌27童傷 (Guangxi: 27 Elementary School Children Injured in Banister Collapse)
Xinhua News Agency, October 22, 2010
http://inews.mingpao.com/htm/INews/20101022/ca50839a.htm

Economic Development
国家统计局:我国民众生活富裕程度下降 (National Statistics Bureau: Decline in Wealth of the People)
Guangzhou Daily, October 22, 2010
http://news.eastday.com/c/20101022/u1a5506160.html

Environment
黑龙江发预警：或一氧化碳中毒 (Heilongjiang Issues Warning on Possibility of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning)
Southern Metropolis Daily, October 22, 2010
http://epaper.oeeee.com/A/html/2010-10/22/content_1205408.htm

Human Rights Defender -- Gao Zhisheng , 高智晟
Chinese Police Refuse to Register Human Rights Lawyer as Missing
The Guardian, October 21, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/21/gao-zhisheng-missing

Human Rights Defender
Chinese Activist Sentenced to 3 Years for Organizing Workers' Rights Group
Associated Press, October 22, 2010
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hbEw6fl8ZBj08bPDXKE2QURDUNRw

Labor
China Mines to Beef Up Safety after Chile Rescue
Agence France-Presse, October 21, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101021/wl_asia_afp/chinaminingsafetychile

Law
Rule Calls for Compensation Money to Be Set Aside
South China Morning Post, October 22, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=9a661da043fcb210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Media
Chinese Dissidents Plan Their Own WikiLeaks
South China Morning Post, October 22, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=f5841da043fcb210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Multilateral
China Tries to Block Darfur Weapons Report
The Guardian, October 21, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/21/china-darfur-weapons-report

Population
Chinese Woman Forced to Have Abortion at Eight Months, Claims Husband
The Guardian, October 21, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/21/chinese-woman-abortion-forced

Religion
U.N. Envoy Defends Falun Gong, "Evil Cult" for China
Reuters, October 21, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/10/21/world/international-us-un-religion.html

Tibet
Security Tight in Tibetan Towns
Radio Free Asia, October 21, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/protests-10212010143125.html