China in the headlines – 4 July 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- Reuters talks to well-known veteran human rights lawyer Mo Shaoping, who has represented scores of Chinese dissidents.
- A US buinessman is released after spending a decade in a Chinese jail.
- A Hong Kong reporter's travel documents are confiscated and he is prevented from entering China.
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Posted on 04 July 2008
China in Africa: exploitation or opportunity
Al Jazeera English has a rundown of China's role in Africa. It looks at whether China, the most aggressive investor nation in Africa in recent years, is exploiting African countries or offering real economic growth and opportunity.
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Posted on 03 July 2008
Australian athletes’ rights curtailed
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has imposed the narrowest interpretation of the Olympic Charter since the Mexico summer Olympics in 1968, and we're worried Australian athletes will be subjected to human rights violations.
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Posted on 03 July 2008
China in the headlines – 3 July 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- Bloggers posting about last weekend's riot in Guizhou are writing backwards in a bid to dodge China's censors
- US Internet companies could be blocking more than Chinese laws demand
- Ninety per cent of the people who took part in a new Chinese survey don't want France's President to come to the Olympics
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Posted on 03 July 2008
Beating protestors is not an Olympic value
Have a look at this new animation, from Amnesty International's United Kingdom section, highlighting human rights abuses in China in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.
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Posted on 02 July 2008
Online in China: an audio analysis
Check out this great podcast about the Internet in China. It's from the US's National Public Radio's On The Media program.
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Posted on 02 July 2008
China in the headlines – 2 July 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- A group of Chinese human rights lawyers are prevented from meeting with visiting US congressmen
- A released dissident says he will continue to appeal his sentence
- Why is the newly-arrived Facebook inaccessible in some parts of China?
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Posted on 02 July 2008
Weekly report: China is not a one-sided story
Journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein. ©Bryan Siebel
Westerners must look at China in all its diversity, including voices of reason, writes Antony Loewenstein
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Posted on 02 July 2008
The tale of three Chinese activists
Police surveillance @copy; AFP
Being a human rights defender in China can be a dicey endeavour. Here are the stories of three brave men; a farmer, a journalist and a democracy activist.
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Posted on 01 July 2008
China in the headlines – 1 July 2008
China has hit back at criticism over recently tightened visa policies
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- Authorities in some areas are offering almost $1,500 to anyone who turns in a North Korean defector
- The official state news agency has a list of good manners and behaviours for Chinese people
- After last weekend's violent rioting local governments have been told to block grievances that could spoil the Games
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Posted on 01 July 2008
Arrests and ethics in China’s quake zone
Another activist is taken into custody after helping families who lost children in the May earthquake. And authorities have drafted up rules giving teachers a moral responsibility to protect students.
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Posted on 30 June 2008
China in the headlines – 30 June 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- How an aging doctor became China's conscience and the price he paid for it
- The Guardian finds out what a few locals think of the Games
- The deep misunderstandings between Chinese bloggers and western human rights activists
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Posted on 30 June 2008
New executions reported in China
This group of men were sentenced to death during an open trial in Zhuzhou, in China's Hunan province, in December 2006. © Private
China has executed three drug dealers to mark this week's International Day Against Drug Abuse, according to Reuters.
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Posted on 27 June 2008
China in the headlines – 27 June 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- Human flesh search engines a new uniquely Chinese phenomenon sweeping the online world
- The Internet is giving artists and entertainers a new under-the-radar freedom
- Being an investigative journalist inside China requires ingenuity and courage
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Posted on 27 June 2008
Still forbidden and banned in China
Detained human rights defender Huang Qi has been prevented from seeing his lawyer. ©64Tianwang.com
Hepatitis B and a batch of poetry are among the topics that Chinese censors have had in their sights in recent days.
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Posted on 26 June 2008
China in the headlines – 26 June 2008
Beijing officials have canned the overseas leg of the Paralympic Games torch relay.
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- The International Olympic Committee is angered that a top party official in Tibet used the torch relay to attack the Dalai Lama
- President Hu Jintao says the job of the media is to correctly guide public opinion
- Foreign tourists are allowed back into Tibet for the first time since the unrest in March
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Posted on 26 June 2008
Quizzing foreign architects in China
Plenty has been said about whether Olympic athletes should speak out about China's human rights record, now the New York Times looks at the issue from the angle of architects.
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Posted on 25 June 2008
China in the headlines – 25 June 2008
Thousands of tourists will be checking out the Beijing Water Cube next month, but their welcome to China might not be as warm as expected. ©Ian Teh/PANOS
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- Shanghai-based dissidents have been issued with a set of rules and are banned from leaving the city during the Olympics
- Strict new security regulations mean a not-so-warm welcome for China’s Olympic guests
- Foreign scholars are finding studying China is a minefield
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Posted on 25 June 2008
Weekly report: Democracy is not a foreign word
Journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein. ©Bryan Siebel
We ignore the diversity of China's web community at our peril, writes Antony Loewenstein
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Posted on 25 June 2008
China in the headlines – 24 June 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
- A BBC journalist's video diary of his trip to Tibet for the Olympic torch relay
- China's new legislation fails to safeguard lawyers
- Actor Richard Gere runs into problems when he drives the new Fiat Delta from Hollywood to Tibet
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Posted on 24 June 2008
Detainees freed as Olympic torch arrives in Tibet
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Big news from China's state media over the weekend, authorities have released 1,157 people who had been detained in connection with the protests in Tibet in March.
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Posted on 23 June 2008
China in the headlines – 23 June 2008
A wave of Christianity has been sweeping across China in recent years
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The president of the Beijing Olympics’ organising committee says they will have a "zero refusal policy" for media interview requests, parents who lost children in last month's earthquake are detained and beaten, and authorities vow to smash the Dalai Lama after the torch relay passes through Tibet plus …
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Posted on 23 June 2008
Help human rights activist Huang Qi
Huang Qi with his son, in this undated photograph. © 6-4tianwang.com
Huang Qi's family and friends haven't seen him since he was abducted 10 days ago, and Amnesty International fears he is at risk of torture and ill-treatment.
Posted on 20 June 2008
China in the headlines – 20 June 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Reports that Facebook has launched a Chinese edition, leading US Internet newspaper the Huffington Post is apparently blocked in China, and an in-depth look at Tibet as the Olympic torch makes its way to the capital of the disputed region plus …
Posted on 20 June 2008
Good news: Missing Mongolian activist is freed
Image of Jaranbayar Soyolt from www.innermongolia.org
Word came through overnight that Mongolian human rights activist Jaranbayar Soyolt has been released from detention and has returned home.
Posted on 19 June 2008
World headlines – 19 June 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
China's Internet censorship policy thrives on secrecy and unaccountability says a new report, sentence reduction for a number of political prisoners over the last two years show the value of dialogue, and a journalist gives the lowdown on the Olympic torch relay in the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang region plus …
Posted on 19 June 2008
Police lockdown as Olympic torch lands in Xinjiang
Chinese boxer Abdul Xukur carries the Olympic Torch for the Xinjiang leg of the relay. © Reuters
China's sensitive Xinjiang region, which is home to the ethnic-minority Uighur people, is in security lockdown – yep, the Olympic torch has arrived.
Posted on 18 June 2008
Weekly report: Dissent with a Chinese face
Journalist and blogger Antony Loewenstein. ©Bryan Siebel
The Olympic Games will show the world a different kind of China, writes Antony Loewenstein
Posted on 18 June 2008
World headlines – 18 June 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
A security clampdown begins as the Olympic torch arrives in the far western autonomous Xinjiang region, the International Olympic Committee reports progress with the security problems threatening TV coverage of the Games, and censors block one of the proxy servers that people in China use to access blocked websites plus …
Posted on 18 June 2008
The contradictions of the Internet in China
Internet cafe in China. © Reuters
China has more people online than any other country on the planet – and the highest number of imprisoned bloggers in the world. Check out this podcast that explores the issue.
Posted on 17 June 2008
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