From China Daily via China View: “I have never known so many truths of the Nanjing Massacre before,” said Yang Shou after attending the launch of a new six-part documentary film yesterday. Yang, 28, who lives in Nanjing, capital of East China’s Jiangsu Province, said he was deeply shocked by the film, “1937: The Truth […]
Read MoreFrom the News International via East Asia News: China denounced US criticism of its human rights record on Sunday in what has become a routine exchange of accusations and said the United States was guilty of double standards. The US State Department marked International Human Rights Day on Saturday by cataloguing what it saw as […]
Read MoreFrom Mainichi Daily News: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dismissed as “temporary” deteriorating ties with China and South Korea as he left Sunday for an Asian summit and a maelstrom of anti-Japanese sentiment among Japan’s most important neighbors. At the meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Koizumi is also expected to finalize a free-trade pact with host […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Residents of a fishing village near Hong Kong said that as many as 20 people had been killed by paramilitary police in an unusually violent clash that marked an escalation in the widespread social protests that have roiled the Chinese countryside. Villagers said that as many as 50 other residents […]
Read MoreFrom the Manila Times via East Asia News: Thousands of Chinese who petition the authorities for redress of grievances are attacked, intimidated and detained, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday. Activists trying to help them are also beaten and arrested, according to the report by the international watchdog entitled: “We Could Disappear […]
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