China in the headlines – 3 September 2008

In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

• Financial Times – Xinjiang oil boom fuels Uighur resentment
  "Offer energy resources as tribute [to Beijing] to create harmony" proclaims a giant billboard outside a petrol station in Korla, in China’s restive western frontier region of Xinjiang …

• International Herald Tribune – Major monastery reopens in Tibet
  A major Buddhist monastery in Tibet reopened this week five months after being shut by the authorities during anti-government riots that rocked the region's capital …

• Radio Free Asia – Olympics 'will change China'
  Former top Communist Party aide Bao Tong says the processes governing fair play and equal treatment according to the rules of the game will have a big impact on Chinese society.

• Christian Science Monitor –A Chinese experiment in democracy meets fierce resistance
  When Fang Zhaojuan began organizing her neighbors here to impeach village leaders whom she suspected of corruption, she had no idea that the challenge would lead her first to the hospital and then to jail ...

• Vanity Fair Blogs – Busted in Beijing
  The Chinese government was ruthlessly effective in quashing dissent during the Summer Olympics, but few noticed until a group of scruffy American activists were arrested, jailed, and deported for flying the Tibetan flag outside the Bird's Nest stadium …

• AFP – Thousands of NKorea children face hardship in China: activists
  A newly formed rights group said Tuesday it would launch a campaign to help thousands of North Korean children forced into begging or prostitution in northeast China …

• International Herald Tribune – Police officers killed in China were ethnic Uighurs
  Two police officers who were killed and five who were wounded in an ambush in western China on Aug. 27 were ethnic Uighurs searching for a woman who they thought might have been involved in an earlier attack …

• China Rises Blog – Xinhua 'polishes' my story
  The stories I write sometimes catch the attention of editors at Xinhua, the state-run news service. If the stories are positive, Xinhua sometimes snatches them and distributes them …

china AND human rights AND Olympics