Friday, January 11, 2013

Civil Society

Rescuing China’s Bears from Bile Farms, One by One
IHT Rendezvous, January 10, 2013
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/rescuing-chinas-bears-from-bile-farms-one-by-one/

Hong Kong

Journalists Slam Move to Hide Directors' Data from Public
South China Morning Post, January 11, 2013
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1124976/journalists-slam-move-hide-directors-data-public

Internet

China Censors Chat Users outside China: Report Says Messages Discussing Press Freedom Campaign Blocked
The Register, January 11, 2013
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/11/china_censors_beyond_borders/

中国各知名网站纷纷成立党组织 (Popular Chinese Websites Add Party Committees One by One)
British Broadcasting Corporation, January 11, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2013/01/130111_china_internet_party.shtml

Related:
新浪网党委开通微博引围观 (Sina Party Committee Opens Weibo Account)
Southern Metropolis Daily, January 11, 2013
http://ndnews.oeeee.com/html/201301/11/15471.html

Media

Censors Kept Busy as Strike-hit Chinese Paper Hits Newsstands
Reuters, January 10, 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/10/us-china-censorship-idUSBRE90903O20130110

The Dead Children of Guizhou
Der Spiegel, January 07, 2013
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/reports-on-death-of-children-highlights-repression-of-journalists-in-china-a-876073-2.html

Protests and Petitions

堅持掛反拆遷橫額 七旬翁被打死 (Septuagenarian Beaten to Death after Continuing to Voice Protest of Forced Eviction)
Ming Pao, January 11, 2013
http://news.sina.com.hk/news/20130111/-9-2869071/1.html

Public Health

河南两矽肺病人去世 5家属讨说法被拘 (Henan: Relatives Demanding Explanation in Deaths of Two Silicosis Patients Detained)
Southern Metropolis Daily, January 11, 2013
http://ndnews.oeeee.com/html/201301/11/15497.html

Tibet

青海黄南州一藏人作家被捕 印度喜邦新任首席部长承诺力挺西藏 (Qinghai: Tibetan Writer Detained)
Radio Free Asia, January 10, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/dz-01102013150141.html