Monday, April 12, 2010

April 12, 2010

News
Children
Professor with Two Children Is Sacked
South China Morning Post, April 12, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=978628a413de7210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Corruption
Rampant Cheating Hurts China's Research Ambitions
Associated Press, April 11, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100411/ap_on_re_as/as_china_academic_cheating

Death Penalty
South African Woman Faces Death Sentence in China
Associated Press, April 12, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100410/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_china_death_sentence

Environment
Access to Drinking Water Remains Grim during SW China's Worst Drought in a Century
Associated Press, April 09, 2010
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/greenpage/environment/access-to-drinking-water-remains-grim-during-sw-chinas-worst-drought-in-a-century-90334069.html

Hong Kong
Three Candidates on Chief Justice Shortlist Said 'No Thanks'
South China Morning Post, April 10, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=587ff270482e7210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Human Rights Defenders
Mainland Muzzles Are Not the Answer
South China Morning Post, April 12, 2010
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=620528a413de7210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD

Labor
China Mine Flood Toll Climbs to 35
Associated Press, April 12, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100412/wl_asia_afp/chinaminingaccident

Land Policy
村民用乡长茶杯被拘续:多人称曾因反征地被拘 (Follow-up on Detained Villager: Many Detained for Being against Land Expropriation)
Beijing News, April 12, 2010
http://news.bjnews.com.cn/2010/0412/69565.shtml

Law
司法部出台两办法 加强对律师律所执业活动监督 (MOJ Issues Two New Measures to Increase Supervision over Lawyers' Practice)
Legal Daily, April 09, 2010
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/index_article/content/2010-04/09/content_2108229.htm
Related information:
律师事务所年度检查考核办法 (Measures on the Examination and Assessment of the Annual Review of Law Firms)
Ministry of Justice, April 8, 2010
http://www.legalinfo.gov.cn/index/content/2010-04/09/content_2108819.htm

律师和律师事务所违法行为处罚办法 (Measures on the Penalties for Illegal Acts of Lawyers and Law Firms)
Ministry of Justice, April 8, 2010
http://www.legalinfo.gov.cn/moj/index/content/2010-04/09/content_2108827.htm
Media
批評作協 《重慶時報》遭整肅 (Staff Fired and Editors under Investigation after Chongqing Times' Scathing Expose of Lavish Meeting of Chinese Writers Association)
Apple Daily, April 12, 2010
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/art_main.php?iss_id=20100412&sec_id=15335&subsec_id=15336&art_id=13919424

Police
Family's Silence over Custody Death Rankles
Shanghai Daily, April 10, 2010
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2010/201004/20100410/article_433753.htm

湖北公安县称拘留所溺死者尸体有伤 排除被打 (Hubei Police: Wounds Found on Drowned Detainee’s Body; Possibility of Being Beaten Excluded)
China National Radio, April 11, 2010
http://news.eastday.com/c/20100411/u1a5141530.html

Protests and Petitions
上海拆迁户到纽约联合国总部前「上访」 (Shanghainese Evictee Hu Yan "Petitions" in front of New York's UN HQ)
Radio Free Asia, April 11, 2010
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/hu-04112010164450.html

Public Health
Virus Outbreak Causes 40 Child Deaths in China
Associated Press, April 10, 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100410/ap_on_he_me/as_china_child_virus

舉報1愛滋個案獎100元 (100 CNY for Each HIV/AIDS Case Reported)
Ming Pao, April 12, 2010
http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/9/1/1/1487150/1.html

Shanghai World Expo
精神病人 10月底前禁出院 (Mentally Ill Forbidden to Leave Hospital until after Expo)
Apple Daily, April 12, 2010
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/art_main.php?iss_id=20100412&sec_id=15335&subsec_id=15336&art_id=13919422