China in the headlines – 5 September 2008
05 September 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Radio Free Asia – Quake parents barred from protesting
Chinese police have thwarted a bid by angry parents to confront Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao about poor school construction during his visit to a middle-school near the epicenter of May's devastating earthquake, witnesses said …Guardian – Bringing out the best in us
A question often raised after the Beijing Olympics is this: in what way has it changed China - and where is the country heading now? …Reuters – Tibet unrest looms in post-Dalai Lama era
A spell in hospital by the Dalai Lama highlights enormous complexities likely to arise when the 73-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner does pass away …New York Times – Uighurs on both sides of conflict in China
Two police officers who were killed and five who were wounded in an ambush in the far west of China last Wednesday were ethnic Uighurs searching for a woman suspected of involvement in earlier violence …Radio Free Asia – Tibetan monks freed in Golmud
Nearly six months after a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, authorities are releasing some Buddhist monks from detention …China Media Project – Blog "newspaper" stabs at the question of earthquake prediction
Muzzled by propaganda orders in the aftermath of the May 12 Sichuan earthquake — which claimed more than 80,000 lives according to the government's latest figures …Mei-Zhong Guan-Xi Blog – The implications of Western articles in the Chinese media
Following the recent inspections into how the Chinese media has translated and republished articles and editorials that originated in the New York Times, it seems …
china AND human rights AND Olympics
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