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From Reuters: China’s crackdown on domestic non-governmental organisations has forced an AIDS activist to quit the group he set up after international funding dried up and some volunteers resigned in the face of intimidation. Hu Jia’s activism set him on a collision course with the Communist Party, which has stepped up curbs on NGOs, the […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: CHINA’S top environmental watchdog is demanding immediate reporting of pollution accidents to avoid a repeat of the disastrous toxic spill on the Songhua River. The State Environmental Protection Administration said it had received 45 accident reports, mostly water pollution, since last November when an explosion in a chemical plant on the Songhua […]
Read MoreFrom the Age, via Asia Media: Angry villagers in China’s Shandong province have rioted in support of a blind activist who has been under house arrest for campaigning against forced sterilisations and abortions. Chen Guangcheng, a peasant blind since birth who taught himself the law initially to fight for disabled rights, last year began exposing […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: The deputy editor of a Chinese newspaper died of liver and kidney failure after he was severely beaten by police enraged by reports in his newspaper about their work. Wu Xianghu, deputy editor of the Taizhou Evening News, was 41. Fellow journalists at his newspaper and his widow confirmed his death but […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The BBC World Service has launched a website targeted at the mainland Chinese market, offering English-language training and news that is unlikely to upset Beijing’s internet censors. China has long blocked access to the British broadcaster’s main Chinese website, www.BBCChinese.com, which yesterday led with a story about US forecasts that Beijing’s […]
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