Friday, February 05, 2010

February 05, 2010

Top news
Human Rights Defender – Gao Zhisheng (高智晟)

高智晟妻子耿和要求美国帮助她的丈夫 (Missing Lawyer Gao Zhisheng's Wife Calls on the U.S. to Help Her Husband)
Voice of America, February 04, 2010
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/missing-lawyer-china-20100204-83541082.html
Related information:
Wife of Disappeared Lawyer Says to Chinese Government: Give Back My Husband
高智晟妻子对中国政府说:还我丈夫!
Human Rights in China, February 04, 2010
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/172970
CH: http://gb.hrichina.org/gate/gb/big5.hrichina.org/public/contents/18169

News
Bilateral Ties
The Careful Choreography of China-US Ties
British Broadcasting Corporation, February 05, 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8499658.stm

Corruption
Beijing Internet Monitor Takes Bribes to Frame Software House
Global Times, February 05, 2010
http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-02/503814.html

Death Penalty
25 Sentenced to Death over Kidnapping in S. China
Xinhua News Agency, February 04, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/04/content_9430893.htm

Gender
家暴投诉去年比前年要多 (Increased Number of Domestic Violence Cases Reported in Guangzhou in 2009)
Southern Metropolis Daily, February 05, 2010
http://epaper.nddaily.com/G/html/2010-02/05/content_1009774.htm

Hong Kong
Hong Kong Farewells Unique Activist Luo Haixing
The Times, February 05, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7016098.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

Law
Drama over Lawyer's Guilty Plea at Retrial
South China Morning Post, February 03, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=ef91f86831f86210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Media
New Guidelines for Child Porn on Internet and Texts
South China Morning Post, February 05, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=ddf25358e6996210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Multilateral
China Could Block Sanctions against Iran
The Washington Post, February 05, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020404792_pf.html

Protests and Petitions
重庆访民集体控诉北京的“黑监狱” (Chongqing Petitioners File Complaint with the Beijing Police on Security Company Involved with Black Jails)
Radio Free Asia, February 04, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/fangmin-02042010141327.html

Police
福州访民揭劳教所黑幕 (Fujianese Petitioners Reveal Scandal inside Reeducation-Through-Labor Center)
Radio Free Asia, February 05, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/hei-02042010102014.html

Shanghai World Expo
Shanghai's Many Proud Pyjama-wearers Feeling the Heat Ahead of World Expo
South China Morning Post, February 05, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=aea25358e6996210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Tibet
Pilgrims and Progress
The Economist, February 04, 2010
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15452843

Dalai Lama to Visit White House 'This Month'
Sky News, February 04, 2010
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Dalai-Lama-To-Visit-Barack-Obama-At-White-House-Later-This-Month/Article/201002115542749