From AP, via Hindu: A ceremony celebrating China’s National Day in Hong Kong was marred on Saturday when activists protesting the Beijing government attempted to storm into the venue. About 20 people, led by maverick lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, were protesting Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 on the fringes of the ceremony. They also demanded […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese school authorities have overcharged students by millions of dollars and doctors have taken millions of yuan in bribes, a newspaper said on Friday, a day after a report revealed rampant graft throughout government. Teachers and doctors were once the most venerated people in China, but public complaints over exorbitant school and healthcare […]
Read MoreFrom Kyodo News, via Japan Today: Chinese police detained about 600 anti-government petitioners in a slum-like Beijing neighborhood ahead of the weeklong National Day holiday that begins Saturday, sources in Beijing said Friday. From Tuesday through Thursday, police from Beijing, northeastern China and elsewhere removed the petitioners from south Beijing low-rent hostels and a nearby […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via SINA English: Compared with public hearings and opinion solicitation concerning law making in some Chinese cities, north China’s Tianjin has taken much bolder action by entrusting a local attorney association to draft a local law. The association is supposed to draft a local law entitled “Measures on Public Hearings of the Tianjin […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: China urged local security agencies yesterday to “prepare for danger” and remain vigilant against terrorists in the predominantly Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. The call by Luo Gan, the top security official on the governing Politburo Standing Committee, came just ahead of the 50th anniversary tomorrow of the Communist control over […]
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