Friday, November 23, 2012

Hong Kong

Fury in Hong Kong at Beijing Official's Claim of 'Foreign Interference'
South China Morning Post, November 23, 2012
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1088629/fury-hong-kong-beijing-officials-claim-foreign-interference

For Zhang Xiaoming's op-ed and a summary, see:
豐富「一國兩制」實踐 (Enrich the Implementation of One Country, Two Systems)
Wen Wei Po, November 22, 2012
http://paper.wenweipo.com/2012/11/22/PL1211220007.htm

Hardline SAR Security Policy Pushed Again
The Standard, November 23, 2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?art_id=128628&con_type=1

Human Rights Defenders

数百网民联署要求释放翟小兵 (Hundreds of Netizens Sign Petition to Release Detained Zhai Xiaobing/@stariver)
Radio Free Asia, November 22, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/signatures-11222012101818.html

Find the petition at:
关于呼吁北京警方切勿小题大作并立即释放网友“星河舰队”的联署
Petition the Public Security Bureau of Beijing to Free Zhai Xiaobin
November 17, 2012
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGxoSkh4V3JKRERHZzl5VldKSUcxVUE6MQ

Land Policy

China Specifies Criminal Penalties for Those Damaging Grassland
Xinhua News Agency, November 22, 2012
http://english.sina.com/china/2012/1122/529810.html

Protests and Petitions

东莞村民堵路抗议村官贪污卖地款 (Dongguan Villagers Block Road in Protest of Official's Private Sale of Collective Land)
Radio Free Asia, November 22, 2012
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/ql1-11222012104513.html

Public Health

愛滋童父親:醫院當波踢 病人如等死 (Father of Child with HIV: General Hospitals Frequently Refuse to Treat HIV Patients or Send Them to Designated Hospitals with Poor Facilities)
Ming Pao, November 23, 2012
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/愛滋童父親-醫院當波踢-病人如等死-211357956.html

Taiwan

Taiwan Ban on Visit by Dalai Lama
Radio Television Hong Kong, November 22, 2012
http://rthk.hk/rthk/news/englishnews/20121122/news_20121122_56_884624.htm

Tibet

China: Last Words of 19 Tibetans Who Committed Self-Immolation
Global Voices Online, November 23, 2012
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/11/23/china-last-words-of-19-tibetans-who-committed-self-immolation/

Related:
Chinese Netizens Speak Out on Tibetan Self-Immolations despite Censorship
Human Rights in China, November 21, 2012
http://www.hrichina.org/content/6388