March 20-22, 2010

News
Corruption
China's Corrupt Communists in the Frame for Graft
The Daily Telegraph, March 22, 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7494033/Chinas-corrupt-Communists-in-the-frame-for-graft.html

Disasters
Drought Lingers in China, 51 Million Affected
China Daily, March 22, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/20/content_9616476.htm

Human Rights Defender – Liu Zhengyou (刘正有)
检察院退回刘正有夫妇案补充调查 (Sichuan Procuratorate Transfers Case of Liu Zhengyou and Hu Yulan Back to Police for Investigation)
Radio Free Asia, March 19, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/China-Liu%20(dissident2)-03192010113849.html

Human Rights Defenders
毒疫苗維權者收恐嚇SMS (Relatives of Victims of Faulty Vaccines and Person Who Reported the Vaccine to Authorities Harassed via SMS)
Ming Pao, March 22, 2010
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/94/1/1/1465758/1.html

泛蓝谢福林“偷电”案下周重新开庭 (Pan Blue Alliance Member Xie Fulin's Trial for "Stealing Electricity" to Be Reopened on Friday)
Radio Free Asia, March 19, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/China-Xie%20(dissident1)-03192010113121.html

Labor
Three Bodies Found after Six Miners Trapped by Flooding
China Daily, March 22, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/21/content_9619119.htm

Law
Article Reminds Beijing on Need for Rule of Law
South China Morning Post, March 22, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=e7eac6c91a187210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Rio Tinto Four Face Court
Shanghai Daily, March 22, 2010
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2010/201003/20100322/article_431902.htm

Related news:
China Upholds Ban on Australia's Access to Rio Trial
Reuters, March 22, 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62I18V20100319

Rio Tinto Executive Stern Hu 'Will Plead Guilty' to Accepting Bribe in China
Dow Jones Newswires, March 22, 2010
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/rio-tinto-executive-stern-hu-will-plead-guilty-to-accepting-bribe-in-china/story-e6frg906-1225843935410

福州200人圍法院撐網友 (200 Surround Fuzhou Court to Support Netizens on Trial)
Ming Pao, March 20, 2010
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/94/1/1/1464075/1.html

Media
Chinese Media Slam Google as 'Politicized'
CNET Networks, March 21, 2010
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20000847-93.html

Related media:
A Peek into Google's Global Farce
China Daily, March 22, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/19/content_9616278.htm

Google in Wrong Game
China Daily, March 22, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/20/content_9617204.htm

Chinese Official’s Threat Sets Off a Media Furor
New York Times, March 22, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/world/asia/22press.html

谷歌或于本周决定在华业务最终命运 (Google May Decide Fate of China Operations This Week)
The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2010
http://cn.wsj.com/gb/20100322/tec084331.asp

Related news:
Google Set to Pull out of China over Censorship
Independent Online, March 22, 2010
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/google-set-to-pull-out-of-china-over-censorship-1925052.html

Police
Family of Dead Inmate Seek Compensation
China Daily, March 22, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/20/content_9618067.htm

Public Health
Nineteen Hospitalized in Lead Poisoning Case
China Daily, March 22, 2010
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/22/content_9619546.htm

呼吸道患者劇增 (Increase in Number Suffering from Respiratory Problems)
Ming Pao, March 21, 2010
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/94/1/1/1464881/1.html

Protests and Petitions
保钢200多名上访工人在北京遭警方拦堵 (200+ Laid Off Hubei Steelworkers Surrounded by Police upon Arrival at Zhongnanhai to Petition)
Radio Free Asia, March 21, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/200-03212010180830.html

Religion
Religious Groups Told to Report Finances
South China Morning Post, March 22, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=19b97e9745777210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

罗马教廷开会讨论中国天主教 (Vatican to Hold Plenary Meeting to Discuss China's Catholic Church)
Radio Free Asia, March 21, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/7-03212010182522.html

Related media:
Chinese Church Officials to Attend Third Straight Plenary Meeting in Vatican
Catholic News Agency, March 20, 2010
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/chinese_church_officials_to_attend_third_straight_plenary_meeting_in_vatican/

XUAR
China's Xinjiang Restores Access to Email, Websites
Agence France-Presse, March 22, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100321/wl_asia_afp/chinaunrestinternettelecommunicationsxinjiang