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From Reuters, via the Standard: Images of China’s top leader shaking hands with two AIDS patients, meant to dispel widespread discrimination, have brought mockery instead for their now-shunned families, a state newspaper said. President Hu Jintao made an unprecedented visit to AIDS patients in a Beijing hospital in November 2004, urging the nation “to phase […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Nearly 2,500 Chinese archives at and above the county level, or 80 percent of China’s total, have opened once confidential government “red-title” documents for public reference, sources at a national archives directors’ meeting said here Wednesday. China’s official documents, usually with the title printed in red, were once restricted only to government officials […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Beijing yesterday rejected any attempt at associating the police shooting of villagers in Guangdong last week with the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy students. The rejection came as activists, intellectuals and the international media drew parallels between the use of force to quell the riot, […]
Read MoreFrom the Thai News Agency: China is to supply Thailand with 96 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) in exchange for 100,000 tonnes of dried longan fruit. The barter trade deal was signed by Suthiporn Chirapandu, a senior official of the Thai Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry, and Guo Zhao Ping of China’s Commission of Science, Technology and […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Hong Kong is headed for political gridlock after a huge rally on Dec. 4 in favor of greater democracy for the city. The unexpectedly big turnout”250,000 claimed by the organizers, 63,000 by the authorities”has hardened the positions of both the pro-democracy camp and the Chinese leadership in Beijing. The democrats are emboldened, […]
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