Monday, February 04, 2013

Environment

Flattening Every Hill
Global Times, February 4, 2013
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/759992.shtml

Hukou

河南塌桥赔偿同命不同价:农村18万 城镇40万 (Different Compensation for Rural and Urban Hukou Holders in Henan Bridge Collapse)
Henan Business Daily, February 4, 2013
http://www.21cbh.com/HTML/2013-2-4/wMNjYxXzYxNzgwMA.html

Human Rights Defenders

维权警民在京首次联欢 盼春风送暖 (Former Police Officers Fighting for Their Rights Manage to Meet in Beijing for First Time)
Voice of America, February 3, 2013
http://www.voachinese.com/content/china-20130203/1596396.html

Related:
蒙冤警察被关黑监狱 江富友处境危殆
Former Police Officers Held in Black Jails, One Began Hunger Strike
Human Rights in China, November 7, 2013
CH: http://www.hrichina.org/cn/content/6370
EN: http://www.hrichina.org/content/6369

Labor

Foxconn Plans Chinese Union Vote
Financial Times, February 3, 2013
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/48091254-6c3e-11e2-b774-00144feab49a.html

重庆农民工讨薪事件调查 (A Look into the Chongqing Migrant Workers' Fight for Unpaid Wages)
Fazhi Wencui Bao, February 1, 2013
http://focus.news.163.com/13/0201/13/8MKP428L00011SM9.html

Politics

Reformers Aim to Get China to Live Up to Own Constitution
The New York Times, February 3, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/world/asia/reformers-aim-to-get-china-to-live-up-to-own-constitution.html

XUAR

新疆學者前赴美國被拒 (Uyghur Academic Ilham Tohti and Daughter Detained at Airport en Route to US, Denied Permission to Leave Country)
Ming Pao, February 3, 2013
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/新疆學者前赴美國被拒-134813827.html

Related:
Detaining Ilham Tohti in Beijing: Xinjiang Security Sector’s Extraterritoriality
Xinjiang Review Blog, February 4, 2013
http://xinjiangreview.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/detaining-ilham-tohti-in-beijing-xinjiang-security-sectors-extraterritoriality/