Tuesday, January 19, 2010

January 19, 2010

News

Disasters
Earthquake Kills 7 in SW China; One Missing
Xinhua News Agency (via China Daily), January 18, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2010-01/19/content_9342842.htm


Education
Children Sickened by School Pressure, Says Survey
Agence France-Presse (via South China Morning Post), January 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=e009228dda446210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defender - Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎)
(RFA
独家)吾尔开希19日将抵东京看望冯正虎(组图) (Tiananmen Student Leader Wu'er Kaixi Flies to Tokyo Airport to Visit Feng Zhenghu)
Radio Free Asia, January 18, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/wu-01182010142723.html

Human Rights Defenders
当局阻止多名维权人士祭奠赵紫阳 (Authorities Prevent Rights Defenders from Mourning Zhao Ziyang)
Radio Free Asia, January 18, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/zhaoziyang-01182010101216.html


Internet Censorship
Individuals May Get '.cn' Names Again
China Daily, January 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/19/content_9340267.htm

谷歌中國搜尋六四事件大增 (Surge in China's Google Search for June 4th Incident)
China News Agency (via Ming Pao), January 18, 2010
http://inews.mingpao.com/htm/INews/20100118/ca11655c.htm

Foreign Reporters' Google E-mail Hacked in China
South China Morning Post, January 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=a37d228dda446210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Media

Confusion Rules over Curbs on 'Obscene' Texts
South China Morning Post, January 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=8b8304917e146210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Related News:

Phone Owner Unware What He Said 'Wrong'
China Daily, January 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/19/content_9340255.htm

Text Message Service Cut off for 'Bad' Words
China Daily, January 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/19/content_9340208.htm

Google Probing Possible inside Help on Attack
Reuters, January 18, 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60H1J620100118

報道指谷歌在華業務如常 (Google Says 'Business as Usual' in China)
United Daily News (via Ming Pao), January 18, 2010
http://inews.mingpao.com/htm/INews/20100118/ca12357c.htm

Protests and Petitions
Party Chief Held After Employing Thugs in Fatal Land Grab
South China Morning Post, January 19, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=3c4304917e146210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Shanghai World Expo
Four Focuses of 2010 Shanghai World Expo
China Daily, January 19, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/19/content_9342132.htm


XUAR
新疆手机短信涨价5倍敏感字被禁 (Text Message Prices in Xinjiang Quintuple; Sensitive Words Censored)
Radio Free Asia, January 18, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/xinjiang-01182010095100.html