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From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Three Guangdong villagers were killed by mistake and eight injured because a hard core of protesters incited a “chaotic” nighttime riot that required police to fire warning shots, the mainland’s official media said last night. In the first formal account of violent clashes between police and […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The Jilin deputy mayor due to be questioned by investigators probing the Songhua River spill told his wife the day before he hanged himself he feared he would be jailed, a pro-Beijing newspaper in Hong Kong reported yesterday. Wang Wei, 43, was discovered dead by his […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Reports on the detention of the police commander who led the crackdown on protesters in Dong-zhou village, Shanwei, were carried in only three Guangdong newspapers yesterday. The Guangzhou Daily, the Nanfang Daily and the Yangcheng Evening News all carried the same report — apparently directly issued […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via spacedaily.com: Toxic spills, smog-filled skies and swathes of land reduced to dust – scenes all too common in China, but green experts say the country is finally realising it must stop sacrificing the environment for growth. While the government still struggles to be transparent when environmental disasters strike, China is increasingly worried […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The protest which triggered a deadly clash between police and farmers in a village in Guangdong, southern China, last week was initially much like thousands of confrontations across the country in recent years. The villagers and their families were demonstrating to demand higher compensation for land seized from them to build […]
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