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ESWN has translated an article in Southern Weekend which gives a history of the illegal brick kilns in Shanxi Province: There are not a lot of village enterprises in Caosheng village, so most of the able-bodied young people go outside to find work, or else they dig coal in the nearby coal mines. The brick […]
Read MoreIn preparation for a meeting in Paris on Monday of key players in the Darfur crisis, China’s envoy to Sudan is traveling to Khartoum: China will send more than 200 troops to Sudan’s Darfur region to help a joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force, its special envoy said in Khartoum on Friday. “The government is […]
Read MoreA group of radical students in Pakistan kidnapped seven Chinese citizens from a massage parlor in Islamabad and accused them of running a brothel. All of the the hostages were later released. From CBSNews.com: Dozens of students had seized nine people (including two Pakistanis) from a massage parlor in an upscale neighborhood of Islamabad shortly […]
Read MoreAP reports on a protest by 20,000 people angered over the forced eviction of a 90-year-old woman in southern China: A 90-year-old woman stood on the roof of her home with a homemade bomb to avoid being evicted, while thousands of protesters defending her clashed with police in southeastern China, a human right monitor and […]
Read MoreColumnist Lian Yue writes in the Southern Metropolis Daily about the Shanxi brick kilns and other examples of the “plight of the struggling masses,” translated by ESWN: So far, you have only seen the beginning. According to the recollections and descriptions of some people, the “coerced labor” in the Shanxi brick kilns have traversed more […]
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