From Times Wire Services March 9, 2004 BEIJING ” Lawmakers began considering amendments to China’s Constitution on Monday that would enshrine protection of private property and human rights for the first time since the Communists swept to power in 1949. The changes, already endorsed by the Communist Party, also would declare support for entrepreneurs who […]
Read MoreIn protest of the widespread corruption amongst local rural officials, common people are increasingly taking their complaints to the central government in Beijing. “The number of petitioners writing or coming to Beijing jumped sharply last year, as more ordinary citizens are demanding good government. This is the high season for petitioners, who are eager to […]
Read MoreThursday, March 4, 2004 “BEIJING: A Chinese activist who helped organize the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and later co-founded a democracy party was released from prison Thursday and left for the United States, a human rights activist said. The medical parole of Wang Youcai, which followed the release of another prisoner and a sentence reduction […]
Read MoreMiddle East North Africa . Financial Network – MENAFN Very interesting article following the issue of U.S. Annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices in China, released Feb. 25, 2004. Among the several (impressionistic albeit provocative) analyses the article offers, it includes the following: “‘The government continued and intensified efforts to monitor and control use […]
Read MoreYahoo Singapore reports on Franco-Chinese deals. “‘The Chinese president made very precise proposals, calling on big businesses to bring smaller enterprises with them to China,’ Loos told journalists. ‘He stressed agriculture, food, environmental protection and all industries linked to infrastructure, with energy, transportation and telecoms being priorities.’” “But China’s poor human rights record has dogged […]
Read MoreFrom IDG News Service: ” While China’s large online population and growing economic development represent an irresistible lure for many IT vendors, any technology they provide that helps the Chinese government impose Internet censorship makes them partially to blame for human rights abuses, a new report by Amnesty International (AI) claims. …… The group specifically […]
Read MoreChinese human rights activist, Gao Zhan, who was freed from a Chinese prison after the U.S. government interceded, is now being prosecuted by the U.S. government for selling China technology from the U.S. Zhan pleaded guilty on Wednesday to illegally selling American high-tech items with potential military uses to China.
Read MoreReporters Without Borders today urged Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to immediately release Du Daobin, the author of many essays on human rights and democracy, who was arrested on 29 October in Yingcheng, in the central province of Hubei. Source at Reporters sans frontires.
Read Moresimply googling “china internet” yielded an incredible amount of results. obviously, this is a hot topic. and obviously, there is no one good site to go to. i did not go through the weblogs that john posted, trying to focus more on news websites/publications/research groups. i tried to not list the usual sites that people […]
Read MoreChinese Media and the Information Revolution by Shanthi Kalathil In July 2001, a small tin mine in Guangxi province flooded, trapping and killing scores of miners. What followed became emblematic of a growing trend in China. Amplified by the information revolution, the story itself became the story. Neighborhood media outlets, cowed into silence by local […]
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