Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'education'
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...
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 AIDS sufferers face widespread discrimination: U.N.
By REUTERS | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsNovember 27, 2009 People in China living with HIV and AIDS face widespread discrimination and stigma, with even medical workers sometimes refusing to touch them, according to a U.N. survey released on Friday. China's...
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...
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 Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists' Rise
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesOctober 2, 2009 CHANGCHUN, China -- Unlike in other cities taken by the People's Liberation Army during China's civil war, there were no crowds to greet the victors as they made their triumphant...
Hepatitis Group Is Harassed in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times31 July 2009 In the realm of potential threats to China's stability, an organization that advocates on behalf of people infected with hepatitis B would seem to be low risk. But on Wednesday,...
A Manifesto on Freedom Sets China's Persecution Machinery in Motion
By Michael Wines | THE NEW YORK TIMES01 May 2009 Behind the west Beijing apartment building where Liu Xia keeps a fifth-floor flat, the police have built a guardhouse. Its purpose is not to protect Ms. Liu, who seeks no...
Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 11, 2009 A bias in favor of male offspring has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls, creating "an imminent generation of excess men," a study...
AIDS takes deadly toll in China
By Jill McGivering | BBC World NewsFebruary 18, 2009 Chinese officials have said that HIV/Aids was the leading cause of death last year, compared with other infectious diseases. It is thought to be the first time this has happened. A...
Drug-resistant HIV strains turning up in China
By Tan Ee Lyn | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 10, 2008 Drug-resistant HIV strains are turning up in parts of China as the virus stretches beyond high-risk groups and gains a stronger foothold in the general population, a...
China's young generation hampered by lack of jobs
By Lucy Hornby | REUTERS | via (uncensored) Yahoo! News June 5, 2008 Nineteen years after a brutal crackdown against student protesters at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, China's youth are more focused on iPods, designer jeans and buying their first car...
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