Chinese block film showing at Cannes – Richard Spencer
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China payment for 1989 victim a first: activist – Reuters
From Reuters (link) Chinese authorities have made a payment to the mother of a youth killed during the 1989 crackdown on mass protests, the first time that a victim’s family has been compensated, a rights activist said on Sunday. Tang Deying campaigned for 17 years to win redress since her son, Zhou Guocong, died in […]
Read MoreVillagers Attack Factories over Pollution in Eastern China – Yingying Liu
English report from the Worldwatch Institute based on reports in local Chinese press (link): More than 100 villagers rampaged through a tannery complex in Quanzhou in China’s eastern Fujian Province on April 9, attacking several factories over their air and water pollution, the local paper Strait News reported. Attacks on four factories took place between […]
Read MoreChina forced to rethink online gaming limit – Reuters
From Reuters (link): Protests from players of Chinese Internet role-playing games have forced Beijing to rethink plans to introduce an anti-addiction system that would limit the time players spend in online fantasy worlds, according to a report in the Financial Times. Seven months after the announcement of the anti-addiction system, it is still only being […]
Read MoreChina cracks down on ‘conservative’ sites – Reuters
From Reuters (link): China has shut down two websites vocal in criticising market-oriented reforms amid a Communist Party crackdown on expression. The Asian nation has some of the strictest web controls in the world, with rigid registration procedures for websites and a special police force monitoring its 110 million web surfers round the clock. It […]
Read MoreChina to free last high-profile Tiananmen prisoner – Benjamin Kang Lim
From Reuters (link): A Chinese journalist, jailed for splashing paint over a portrait of Mao Zedong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, is due to be freed on Wednesday, his mother and a rights activist said, ahead of President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States. The release of Yu Dongyue, who rights groups say […]
Read MoreA Spectator’s Role for China’s Muslims – Jim Yardley
From the New York Times: RELIGION is often hidden in China, so the unabashed public display of Islam here in the city known as Little Mecca is particularly striking. Men have beards and wear white caps. Women wear head scarves. Minarets poke up from large mosques. A bookstore sells Korans and religious study guides in […]
Read MoreChina’s export factories hit by labour troubles – Business Online
From The Business Online: CHINA’S export-processing factories have been hit by a wave of worker unrest raising the question of how this will affect long term prospects for the mainland’s growth model. Last year saw more than 1,000 strikes involving plants with more than a hundred workers each in the fastest-growing province of Guangdong alone. […]
Read MorePace and Scope of Protest in China Accelerated in ’05 – Joseph Kahn
From The New York Times: Chinese took to the streets to protest land seizures, corruption, pollution and unpaid wages in record numbers in 2005, the national police said Thursday, with mass incidents that involved violent confrontations or attacks on government property surging at the fastest rate. The number of “public order disturbances” rose 6.6 percent […]
Read MoreChinese Media Downplay Land Protest in Southern China – Daniel Schearf
From Voice of America: China’s state-owned news agency is downplaying the latest clash between villagers and police in the southern province of Guangdong over land compensation. Analysts say Chinese authorities are struggling to keep a tight lid on the growing number of increasingly violent rural protests. A four-day protest in Zhongshan City’s Sanjiao Township left […]
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