Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'communist party'
The yin and yang of human rights in China
By Frank Ching | The Japan Times September 3, 2010 The only lady vice minister in China's Foreign Ministry is Fu Ying, a well-coiffed, mild-mannered 57-year-old, an ethnic Mongol who speaks flawless English, who has served as ambassador to the...
EU presses China over fake goods
By BBC News 01 September 2010 The EU has urged China to step up the fight against black market exports, saying counterfeit cigarettes alone are depriving the EU of 10bn euros (£8bn) in tax revenue annually. The EU Commissioner for...
China's monster traffic jam rears its head again
By Scott McDonald - AP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News August 28, 2010 China's monster traffic jam has reared its head again, with trucks and cars backed up for up to 18 miles (30 kilometers) Saturday on a highway north...
Arrests Ahead of Tournament
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 25, 2010 Police clear Beijing of dissidents ahead of a star-studded martial arts event. Police in China's capital have removed a victim of the Tiananmen Square military crackdown from the city ahead of a high-profile martial...
Canada Calls on Chinese Embassy to Give Back Journalist's Passport
By Matthew Little and Jason Loftus | The Epoch TimesAugust 18, 2010 The office of Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has called on the Chinese embassy in Ottawa to return a Canadian journalist's passport, which he said was withheld...
New China Search Engine Will Be State-Controlled
By David Barboza | The New York Times13 August 2010 In an apparent bid to extend its control over the Internet and cash in on the rapid growth of mobile devices, China plans to create a government-controlled search engine. The...
Tensions Over Chinese Mining Venture in Peru
By Simon Romero for The New York TimesAugust 14, 2010 In its worldwide quest for commodities, China has scoured South America for everything from Brazilian soybeans to Guyanese timber and Venezuelan oil. But long before it made any of those...
Travel Bans For Activists
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 05, 2010 People previously allowed free movement are now having problems leaving China Chinese lawyers, academics, and rights activists say that authorities are increasingly targeting them through immigration controls, with a growing number of people prevented...
Politics Intrude in Mosque
by Radio Free Asia03 August 2010 A Chinese propaganda event in a religious space offends Uyghurs Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority in northwest China have expressed anger and concern about controls over imams after a local Communist Party committee...
China defends business ties with Iran
By AFP - Agence France Presse (via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News)August 04, 2010 China has defended its business dealings with Iran after a senior US official called on Beijing to follow UN sanctions against the Islamic republic to the letter. The...
China Imprisons 3 Men Who Maintained Uighur Web Sites
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJuly 30, 2010 Three men accused of "endangering state security" for their roles in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, according to exile...
China's Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet
By Edward Wong | The New York Times24 July 2010 They come by new high-altitude trains, four a day, cruising 1,200 miles past snow-capped mountains. And they come by military truck convoy, lumbering across the roof of the world. Han...
A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...
Violence Near Tech Park
By Radio Free Asia19 July 2010 Residents want Beijing to investigate graft allegations around a property deal. Thousands of people surrounded government offices near Suzhou's flagship high-tech industrial park in recent days, sparking clashes between riot police and residents angry...
Lawyers' Licenses Withheld
By Radio Free AsiaJuly 18, 2010 Chinese authorities use the annual license inspection to intimidate lawyers. Chinese authorities have refused to renew the professional licenses of several prominent rights lawyers in this year's inspection. Other rights lawyers were forced to...
China tourism plan a Trojan horse
By VietNamNet BridgeJuly 18, 2010 China's recently announced tourism development plan has been slammed as a Machiavellian ploy to claim sovereignty over Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos. "This trick is very clever, taking the name of...
China's AIDS activists face uphill struggle
By Marianne Barriaux - AFP Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News14 July 2010 Wan Yanhai, China's top AIDS activist, said he suffered years of harassment from authorities which eventually came to a head earlier this year when he...
Chinese Artist Who Led Protest Has Been Jailed, His Wife Says
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJuly 08, 2010 Wu Yuren, an artist who helped lead an unusually bold public protest last winter over a land dispute, has been languishing in a Beijing jail for almost six weeks after...
Tibetan environmentalist gets 5 years
By RADIO FREE ASIA4th of July 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist is sentenced on charges of "splittism" a week after his brother's trial. Award-winning Tibetan environmentalist Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison on charges of...
Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years
By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 05, 2010 An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry...
Google to Stop Redirecting Chinese Users to Hong Kong
By Brad Stone and David Barboza | The New York TimesJune 29, 2010 In an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in mainland China, Google plans to stop automatically redirecting Chinese users to...
China starts trial against Tibet environmentalist
By Christopher Bodeen - The Associated Press via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News (Canada)June 22, 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist once praised by Chinese state media as a model philanthropist went on trial Tuesday in western China on what supporters say are politically...
China's Energy Grab Is No Green Affair
By Dr. Michael Economides | FORBESJune 17, 2010 During President Obama's Oval Office address to the nation on the subject of the BP oil spill, the chief executive pointed to China as a leader in clean energy investment in hopes...
Underground Pastor Held
By Radio Free AsiaJune 14, 2010 Chinese authorities prevent a church leader from meeting with a congregation facing forced eviction. An underground Christian pastor has been detained in the central China city of Zhengzhou, the church leader said from an...
Taiwan pulls movies from Shanghai festival
By Min Lee - Associated Press | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsJune 11, 2010 Taiwan has pulled eight movies from China's leading international film festival, an official said Friday, citing concerns that festival organizers could use the occasion to assert Beijing's sovereignty...
Strikes Spread in China
By Radio Free AsiaJune 09, 2010 Does labor action signal the end of the low-wage era? A series of high-profile labor disputes likely signals the end of low-cost manufacturing in China, as workers walk out at three Honda plants in...
China defends Internet 'Great Firewall'
By Robert Saiget - AFP - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJune 08, 2010 China on Tuesday defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure state security, and cautioned other nations to respect how it...
China's Dwindling Resource
By Philip Bowring (International Herald Tribune Op-Ed Contributor) | The New York TimesJune 03, 2010 A strike at Honda's plant at Foshan in southern China. Suicides and labor unrest at the giant Foxconn factory not far away in Shenzhen. Everywhere in...
Police Quash Tiananmen Memorials
By Radio Free AsiaJune 03, 2010 China blocks efforts to commemorate the 1989 massacre in Beijing of pro-democracy demonstrators. Attempts to stage public events and protests commemorating the 21st anniversary of the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy movement...
We will NEVER forget
From the publishers of Truth About China on June 04, 2010...
Tiananmen Mothers demand end to government silence over massacre
By AsiaNews.it04 June 2010 Open Letter of the families of those killed in the massacre of June 4, 1989. The Party does not respond and waits for them to "die" to get rid of the problem. With the anniversary approaching,...
Uyghurs: New Details on Arrests
By Radio Free Asia May 26, 2010 Chinese authorities are still detaining a number of Uyghurs without charge after the Urumqi unrest. New accounts detailing the detention of ethnic Uyghurs in northwest China in the wake of deadly unrest show...
While China Stands By
Editorial | The New York TimesMay 27, 2010 There is only one country with any chance of getting through to North Korea. That is China, the North's major supplier of aid, food and oil. As tensions on the Korean Peninsula...
China tries to balance fallout of Korean tensions
By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer | AP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 26, 2010 Rising tensions over North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship are providing an unwelcome reality check for Pyongyang's chief ally, China. Only months ago,...
Crackdown on Tibetan Ringtones
By Radio Free AsiaMay 21, 2010 Authorities in Tibet ban popular ringtones characterized as 'separatist.' Students and teachers at a high school near the Tibetan city of Shigatse have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell...
Lawyer Barred from Going Abroad
By Radio Free AsiaMay 17, 2010 A recently disbarred rights lawyer says he has been banned by Chinese border police from leaving the country. Attorney Tang Jitian said in an interview Monday that he had been stopped by security officers...
U.S. risks China's ire with decision to fund software maker tied to Falun Gong
By John Pomfret | The Washington PostMay 12, 2010 The State Department has decided to fund a group run mainly by practitioners of Falun Gong, a Buddhist-like sect long considered Enemy No. 1 by the Chinese government, to provide software to...
Is China Headed for a Crash?
By PHILIP BOWRING | Op-Ed Contributor | International Herald Tribune | The New York TimesMay 11, 2010 China talk is confusing. The Shanghai stock market is at its lowest level in eight months, with the real estate sector especially hard-hit....
China AIDS Activist Flees to U.S. After Harassment
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via abcNEWSMay 10, 2010 China AIDS activist leaves for U.S. with family after government harassment intensified A prominent Chinese AIDS activist has fled China for the United States with his wife and...
Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia07 May 2010 Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted a major earthquake. Tibetan herders in the remote western Chinese province of Qinghai have hit out at a mining company after it sank deep shafts into...
N Korea and China leaders 'meet'
By BBC World NewsMay 06, 2010 North Korea's Kim Jong-il is reported by South Korean media to have met China's president ahead of expected talks with China's premier. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Mr Kim met President Hu Jintao...
China stripped of 2000 gymnastics medal for underage athlete
By Chris Chase | for (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! SportsApril 28, 2010 China was stripped of a team all-around bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics on Wednesday because it fielded an underage gymnast. Dong Fangxiao was discovered to be 14 at...
Chinese Military Seeks to Extend Its Naval Power
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesApril 26, 2010 The Chinese military is seeking to project naval power well beyond the Chinese coast, from the oil ports of the Middle East to the shipping lanes of the Pacific, where...
Monks Told To Go Home
By Radio Free Asia April 20, 2010 Chinese authorities tell monks aiding quake rescue efforts to leave. As China declared a day of mourning for the more than 2,000 people killed in an earthquake in western Qinghai province, authorities told...
China jails 3 online activists; many show support
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via Google NewsApril 16, 2010 A Chinese court jailed three people Friday who posted material on the Internet to help an illiterate woman pressure authorities to reinvestigate her daughter's death, one defendant's...
Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jia, Liu Xiaobo
A New York Times EditorialApril 13, 2010 Washington and Beijing are, rightly, eager to lower tensions. After President Obama met President Hu Jintao of China at the White House on Monday, officials said they had agreed to work together to...
China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet
Michael Wines, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesApril 07, 2010 Type the Chinese characters for "carrot" into Google's search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links,...
Researchers Trace Data Theft to Intruders in China
By John Markoff and David Barboza | The New York TimesApril 05, 2010 Turning the tables on a China-based computer espionage gang, Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored a spying operation for the past eight months, observing...
Milk Activist Trial Censored
By Radio Free Asia01 April 2010 China blacks out news about the trial of an activist who helped victims of a tainted milk scandal. Chinese authorities have taken swift steps to censor online news and information about the trial of...
Journalists' E-Mails Hacked in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times30 March 2010 In what appears to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders....
The Dark Side of China Aid
By CHRISTOPHER WALKER and SARAH COOK | The New York Times (Christopher Walker is director of studies and Sarah Cook is an Asia researcher at Freedom House)March 25, 2010 A growing number of developing countries receive billions of dollars a...
China bans poet from traveling to US conference
By Charles Hutzler | Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 25, 2010 A pixie-ish literature professor is the latest person to run afoul of China's government, denied permission to travel to a prominent academic conference in the United States this...
Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship
By Miguel Helft and David Barboza | The New York TimesMarch 22/23, 2010 Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Goolge on Monday closed its Internet search service there and began...
More foreign firms feel unwelcome in China
By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 22, 2010 A growing number of foreign businesses in China feel shut out under new government policies promoting homegrown technology, according a survey released Monday. Fully 38 percent of...
China Says Lawyer 'Sentenced'
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 17, 2010 But one year later, Gao Zhisheng remains missing. China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi has referred to a "sentencing for subversion" in the case of rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for more...
China Issues Another Warning to Google on Enforced Censorship of the Internet
By Michael Wines | The New York Times12 March 2010 One of China's top Internet regulators warned bluntly on Friday that any move by Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be "irresponsible" and would draw a response...
China to toughen requirements for reporters
By Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 11, 2010 China will toughen requirements for reporters by launching a new certification system that includes training in Marxist and communist theories of news, a media official said, citing problems with the...
Doubts On Reform Pledges
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 08, 2010 China's premier promises a more open society, but his speech to parliament meets with skepticism. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has called for greater oversight of government by ordinary citizens and media, but analysts and netizens...
Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West's intelligence secrets
Michael Evans, Giles Whittell | TimesOnLine (United Kingdom)March 08, 2010 Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China. The attacks...
For 13th Time, Critic of China's Government Is Barred From Leaving Country
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesMarch 02, 2010 Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human...
China imposes new rules for personal websites
By David Pierson - Los Angeles Times February 24, 2010 Applicants will have to verify their identities with regulators and have their photographs taken. A government ministry will review the requests. In a move that will give the government new...
Rift Grows as U.S. and China Seek Differing Goals
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesFebruary 20, 2010 When President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in the White House on Thursday, he was following a tradition that all recent American presidents had dutifully honored. Yet, to some...
Obama to Meet Dalai Lama Despite Chinese Warning
By REUTERS | The New York TimesFebruary 18, 2010 President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday despite China's warning that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained ties....
Korean Children Left in China
By Radio Free AsiaFebruary 12, 2010 North Korean children left to fend for themselves in China are afforded no protection under the country's laws. AFP A warning sign is shown on a barbed-wire fence separating China and North Korea, May...
Tank Victim Gets US Asylum
By Radio Free AsiaFebruary 09, 2010 A victim of China's 1989 crackdown says he's looking forward to his new life. WASHINGTON--A promising Chinese athlete whose legs were crushed by a tank during the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy...
China's Defiance Stirs Fears for Missing Dissident
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesFebruary 03, 2010 A year ago this week, Chinese security agents made a midnight visit to the home of Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most high-profile human rights lawyers, and led him away....
China Internet CEO laments state-controlled media
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sugita KatyaFebruary 03, 2010 China will never have its voice heard on the international stage unless the government loosens its tight grip over the media and film...
IFJ Report Lists China's Secret Bans on Media Reporting
International Federation of JournalistsJanuary 31, 2009 A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2009. ...
China hits back at US-Taiwan sale
By BBC World News30 January 2010 China has announced a series of moves against the US in retaliation for a proposed weapons sale to Taiwan worth $6.4bn (£4bn). Beijing said it would suspend military exchanges with the US, impose sanctions...
China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest
By Lucy Hornby | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 24, 2010 China's Communist Party mouthpiece on Sunday accused the United States of mounting a cyber army and a "hacker brigade," and of exploiting social media like Twitter or Youtube...
Remarks on Internet Freedom
克林顿国务卿关于互联网自由的讲话 >> Click here for the original English transcript 希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Rodham Clinton）国务卿 华盛顿哥伦比亚特区新闻博物馆（Newseum） 2009 年1 月21 日（星期四） 非常感谢，艾伯托（Alberto）。不仅要感谢你的赞誉和介绍，而且要感谢你和你的同事们在这个重要机构中发挥的领导作用。很高兴来到新闻博物馆。这个博物馆是一座纪念碑，见证了我们最珍视的一些自由。我十分感谢能有此机会谈谈如何运用这些自由应对二十一世纪的各项挑战。 虽然我并不能看到你们所有的人----因为在这样的场合灯光照射我的眼睛，而你们都在背光处----但我知道在座的有很多朋友和老同事。我要感谢自由论坛（Freedom Forum）的首席执行官查尔斯·奥弗比（Charles Overby）光临新闻博物馆，以及我在参议院时的老同事理查德·卢格（Richard Lugar）和乔·利伯曼 (Joe Lieberman) 两位参议员，他们两位都为《表达法》（Voice Act）的通过作出了努力。这项立法表明，美国国会和美国人民不分党派，不分政府部门，坚定地支持互联网自由。 我听说在场的还有参议员萨姆·布朗巴克（Sam Brownback）、参议员特德·考夫曼（Ted Kaufman）、众议员洛雷塔·桑切斯（Loretta Sanchez）、许多大使、临时代办和外交使团的其他代表、以及从中国、哥伦比亚、伊朗、黎巴嫩和摩尔多瓦等国前来参加我们关于互联网自由的"国际访问者领袖计划"（International Visitor Leadership Program）的人士。我还要提到最近被任命为广播理事会（Broadcasting Board of Govenors）理事的阿斯彭研究所（Aspen Institute）所长沃尔特·艾萨克森（Walter Isaacson）。毫无疑问，他在阿斯彭研究所从事的支持互联网自由的工作中发挥了重要作用。 这是关于一个非常重要的议题的一个重要讲话。但在开始谈这个议题前，我想简要介绍一下海地的情况。过去八天来，海地人民和世界人民携手应对一场巨大的灾难。我们这个半球曾历经磨难，但我们目前在太子港面临的困境鲜有先例。通讯网络在我们抗击这场灾难的过程中发挥了极其重要的作用。不用说，当地的通讯网络遭受了重创，在很多地方被彻底摧毁。地震发生后仅几个小时，我们就与民营部门的伙伴发起"海地"（HAITI）短信捐款活动，使美国的移动电话使用者能通过发短信向救灾工作捐款。这项活动充分展示了美国人民的慷慨。迄今，该活动已为海地的抗震救灾筹集了2500 多万美元。...
China to Scan Text Messages to Spot 'Unhealthy Content'
By Sharon LaFraniere | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2010 As the Chinese government expands what it calls a campaign against pornography, cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai have been told to suspend text services to cellphone users who are...
Google puts China cell phones on hold amid dispute
By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer | Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News 19 January 2010 Google postpones launch of 2 mobile phones in China as fallout from censorship rift widens Google has delayed the debut of two mobile...
Hackers Said to Breach Gmail Accounts in China
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2009 Google e-mail accounts of at least two foreign journalists in Beijing have been compromised, a journalists' advocacy group in China said on Monday, adding that hackers changed Gmail program settings...
In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity
By Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York Times13 January 2010 Even before Google threatened to pull out of China in response to an attack on its computer systems, the company was notifying activists whose e-mail accounts might...
Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China
By Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York TimesJanuary 13, 2010 Google's declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday....
China to Be Short 24 Million Wives, Study Says
By The Associated Press | The New York TimesJanuary 12, 2010 Abortions of girl fetuses are expected to leave China with 24 million more men than women over the next decade, according to a study that warns the imbalance will...
China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker
By Radio Free AsiaJanuary 06, 2010 The documentary 'Leaving Fear Behind' gets its producer a six-year prison term. Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai have handed a six-year jail sentence to a Tibetan filmmaker who returned from exile...
Lead Pollution Harms Children
By Radio Free AsiaJanuary 05, 2010 Villagers in southern China say authorities are trying to hide the effects of lead poisoning on their children. More than 100 children in a village in southern China have tested positive for elevated lead...
US software firm sues China for 2.2 billion dollars
By Agence France Presse AFP - via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsJanuary 05, 2010 A California firm filed a 2.2 billion dollar lawsuit against China, accusing Beijing of stealing its technology to bar Internet access to political and religious sites in China....
President Obama, Push Back on China
By WEI JINGSHENG - Op-Ed Contributor - The New York TimesDecember 30, 2009 Last week, a moderate reformist in China, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Chinese government for the mere act of organizing and...
France berates China over sentencing of dissident
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 26, 2009France chastised China on Saturday for jailing dissident Liu Xiaobo and reminded Beijingof its commitments to dialogue on human rights with the European Union.Liu, China's most prominent dissident, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political...
Argentine judge asks China arrests over Falun Gong
By Luis Andres Henao | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News December 23, 2009 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of China's former President Jiang Zemin and another top official for "crimes against humanity" in...
China, Cambodia and the Uighurs
A New York Times EditorialDecember 22, 2009 Just more than a year ago, Cambodia was praised by the United Nations for its work on behalf of refugees. It was one of only two nations in Southeast Asia to sign the...
China Bans Domains
By Radio Free Asia14 December 2009 Chinese authorities ban registration for certain Internet domains, sparking fears of a wider crackdown. A ban on registering certain domain names is part of a Chinese effort to tighten Internet controls, according to Chinese...
China Indicts Prominent Dissident
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Liu Xiaobo, one of China's best-known dissidents and a principal author of a pro-democracy manifesto that has attracted more than 10,000 signatures from Chinese supporters, was indicted Thursday on charges...
Activists Mark Rights Day
By Radio Free Asia December 08, 2009 Chinese activists risk surveillance and detention as they mark two anniversaries. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou have detained an activist who applied to hold a symposium on World Human Rights...
Another Clue to How China Managed Obama's Visit
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 05, 2009 In case President Obama is curious, some students who went to his town hall meeting in Shanghai last month wonder how he gets along with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
Christians Held in Shanghai
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 30, 2009 A pastor at an unofficial Protestant church banned from holding indoor meetings by authorities in Shanghai said she would seek compensation for mistreatment by police, as hundreds of the church's followers held an open-air...
School Construction Critic Gets Prison Term in China
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2009 A lengthy prison sentence for a rights activist shows the determination of Chinese officials to suppress any vestige of dissent related to shoddy construction and unnecessary deaths in last year's...
China Helps the Powerful in Namibia
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 20, 2009 Like parents everywhere, mothers and fathers in Namibia, an impoverished southern African nation, worry about college costs and opportunities for their children. The Chinese government has stepped forward to help...
Lawyers, Activists Denied Access
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 18, 2009 Chinese rights lawyers and petitioners were closely watched and prevented from meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Beijing. Rights lawyers and activists in Beijing during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit...
World Out of Balance
By Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist | The New York TimesNovember 16, 2009 International travel by world leaders is mainly about making symbolic gestures. Nobody expects President Obama to come back from China with major new agreements, on economic policy...
China 'black jails' shield leaders from complaints
By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsNovember 12, 2009 Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China's central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that mainland police refuse to acknowledge or crack down...
In China, Battles Over A New Wall
By NBS News' Ed Flanagan | via MSNBC09 November 2009 Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China. The so-called Great Firewall of China, the online filtering and surveillance program...
China blocks Internet in Uighur area
UPI - United Press InternationalNovember 05, 2009 Four months after riots in China's Uighur Autonomous Region, residents there are still cut off from the World Wide Web. The government has not said when Internet access will be available again in...
China Is Trying a Tibetan Filmmaker for Subversion
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesOctober 31, 2009 A self-taught filmmaker who spent five months interviewing Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule is facing charges of state subversion after the footage was smuggled abroad...
Salute All Cars, Kids. It's a Rule in China.
By Sharon LaFraniere | The New York TimesOctober 26, 2009 HUANGPING, China -- All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in the...
China's troubling currency policy places world, U.S. in a quandary
The Sacramento Bee | Paul Krugman October 24, 2009 Senior monetary officials usually talk in code. So when Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, spoke recently about Asia, international imbalances and the financial crisis, he didn't specifically criticize China's outrageous...
Many 'missing' after China riots
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsOctober 21, 2009 Dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained in the wake of the riots in China's Xinjiang region, a human rights group has said. Human Rights Watch said the 43...
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