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

  • Telegraph – Chinese ordered cover-up of tainted milk scandal
    Chinese authorities ordered a cover-up of a tainted milk scandal that has poisoned tens of thousands of babies because they feared social unrest if the news was made public, The Daily Telegraph has learned …

  • Reporters Without Borders – Detained cyber-dissident Huang Qi finally allowed to see his lawyer
    Reporters Without Borders is very worried about detained cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who was able to see his lawyer, Mo Shaoping, yesterday for the first time since his arrest on 10 June in Chengdu, in the western province of Sichuan …

  • China Digital Times – Web users fault China's Baidu
    From Wall Street Journal: Chinese Internet-search company Baidu.com Inc. has been defending itself against claims in the media and Internet chat forums that it allegedly censored online information about the growing scandal over tainted milk powder …

  • ESWN Blog – Websites trapped in milk powder gate
    As more products were found by the General Administration of Quality Inspection to contain melamine, many of the well-known Chinese makers of milk-related products are trapped in a confidence crisis. At the same time, many mainstream Chinese websites are being questioned about the manner by which they are handling the keywords related to the companies in trouble …

  • Times Online – Chinese publish tales from space, even before take-off
    With a burst of flame and smoke, a Chinese rocket blasted off into orbit yesterday. But it was the state news agency that moved faster than the speed of light, publishing the transcript of an “in-space” conversation between the astronauts before they had even left Earth …

  • BBC – China's firm grip on Tibetan area
    On the edge of Tibetan towns in this western province, special police officers carrying rifles stand guard behind checkpoints made of sandbags …

  • Reuters – China says it defends Tibetan culture
    China, not the Dalai Lama, is the real guardian of Tibet's culture, the government said on Thursday, rejecting criticism that its rule in the restive mountain region amounts to cultural annihilation …

  • Global Voices Advocacy – China: An hour later, he was taken away
    Another blogger arrest, this time we find out about merely by chance …

  • Radio Free Asia – Ramadan lunches for China's Muslims
    Muslim Uyghur employees at government departments in China's northwest are being offered free lunches during the holy fasting month of Ramadan …

  • AP – Amid milk scare, China's elite get special food
    While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies …