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Tianjin Homeowners Tell of Compensation Pressure
Following the series of blasts that killed more than 150 near Tianjin’s port on August...
Acquitted Death Row Inmate in Fujian Awarded $186,000
A Fujian court has awarded $186,000 compensation to former death row prisoner Nian Bin for the...
21 Arrested Over Deadly Land Clash in Yunnan
After a deadly clash that arose out of a months running land dispute in Jinning, Yunnan Province...
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Mining Accident Swindlers
The following censorship instruction, issued to the media by government authorities, has been...
China’s Workers Restive And On Strike
As companies from Wal-Mart to the world’s largest shoe-maker, Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings,...
Teen Weibo User’s Request for Compensation Denied
Local authorities in Gansu have rejected a 16-year-old’s request for an apology and symbolic...
Outspoken Singer Detained Over Explosion Remarks
AP reports that Wu Hongfei, singer for the Beijing-based rock outfit Happy Avenue (幸福大街), has been detained for comments that she posted on her Weibo account: Police have detained an activist singer who wrote that she wanted to...
After Killing Sprees, Beijing Bans Knife Sales
After two recent stabbings in Beijing—one of which took two lives (including a U.S. citizen) on July 17 at a downtown shopping mall, the other claimed one fatality on July 22 at the same Carrefour outlet that supplied the murder...
Airport Bomber Wins Praise, Reinvestigation
Beijing airport bomber Ji Zhongxing is in custody in an undisclosed location following surgery to amputate his left hand, injured in Saturday’s blast. The explosion appears to have been a desperate protest after eight...
Tang Hui, Rape Victim’s Mother, Wins Compensation
Tang Hui won a court appeal on Monday in the latest chapter of a saga that began in 2006, with the kidnapping, rape and beating of her then 11-year-old daughter. Two men were subsequently sentenced to death, four to life in...
Protests Win Written Pledge of Uranium Plant’s Cancellation
After three successive days of demonstrations (see pictures at Tea Leaf Nation and Global Voices), protesters in Jiangmen, Guangdong won a written guarantee on Monday that a planned uranium processing plant nearby would not go...
After Forced Evictions, a Nightmare of Red Tape
Forced demolitions have been labelled China’s greatest source of social unrest; Amnesty International reports that evictions have given rise to over 40 self-immolation protests in recent years. At 2Non—”Non Fiction...
‘Good Samaritan’ Case Gets New Ending
Adam Minter describes a dramatic twist in the tale of Peng Yu, whose prosecution for aiding an elderly woman became a potent symbol of modern China’s social decay and exerted a deep chilling effect over would-be Good...
A Glimpse into Chinese Law-Making
At China Real Time Report, law professor Stanley Lubman describes a recent Sino-American legal exchange presentation given in San Francisco. The talks covered issues such as appropriate levels of financial compensation and the...
Witness: Sichuan Driver Killed Child To Reduce Compensation
In the shadow of a Foshan toddler’s death and amid widespread discussion of its causes and implications, Shanghaiist reports a similar incident in Sichuan province. According to one eyewitness, a truck driver accidentally...
Mainland Justice Blind to Plight of the Powerless
Shanghai resident Lu Weiming and his wife blame a local waste collection station for their son’s disability and their daughter’s death. South China Morning Post reports the couple’s repeated legal defeats in...
10 Families of China Crash Victims Take Payment
Many families of victims who died in the Wenzhou high-speed rail crash have refused government offers of compensation. But ten families have accepted. From AP: Families who agreed will receive about $142,000 for each victim who...
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