In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

  • Telegraph – Chinese authorities 'covered up baby milk scandal because of Olympics'
    The timing of the incident has raised fears that officials disguised the health risk to avoid a scandal during the Beijing Olympic Games in August …

  • China Digital Times – Huang Xiuli: A reporter's diary of the Shanxi landslide
    A female reporter for the Chengdu Business News, Huang Xiuli, wrote about her heroic coverage of the Xiangfen landslide incident on her blog. Translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan …

  • AFP – A life of coal for Chinese migrant worker
    Zhang Yongling is a typical migrant labourer. Raised in the rural farmlands of China's southwest, he is now a mine worker in the brutal northern coal-producing region …

  • Woeser's Blog – Leaving Fear Behind
    Full transcript: From October 2007 until March 2008, Dhondup Wangchen carried out a dangerous journey through the Eastern areas of Tibet …

  • Reuters – Tibet provisional govt to decide on China talks soon
    The Tibetan government-in-exile said on Sunday it would make a final decision on whether to continue dialogue with China to ease tension in Tibet after their next encounter ends in October …

  • China Rises' Blog – This blog seen in China (for now)
    I’m celebrating, of sorts. For the first time in maybe a year, this blog and others on the typepad.com host can now be seen within China. They are no longer blocked …

  • Shanghai Daily – Death sentence for fraudster
    A former brokerage executive was given a death sentence with a two-year probation by the Hainan Province Higher People's Court for fraud and theft involving 26 billion yuan (US$3.15 billion), xinhuanet.com reported today …