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

  • Wall St Journal – Press controls feed China's food problem
    Nearly three weeks after China's melamine-tainted milk powder scandal first came to light, Beijing is scrambling to assure the public nothing like this will ever happen again. Yet the Communist Party's insistence on maintaining press controls still presents a significant stumbling block to addressing China's quality control problems …

  • AFP – China declines to say how many children affected in milk scandal
    China on Tuesday declined to release updated figures revealing how many children have been affected by the tainted milk scandal, as it attempted to boost confidence in its food safety standards…

  • Reuters – China hopes "right person" wins Nobel Peace Prize
    China said on Wednesday it hoped the Nobel Peace Prize, due to be announced on Friday, will go to the "right person" after a Chinese dissident had been mentioned as a potential winner …

  • New York Times– Federal judge orders release of Chinese Muslims
    A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to immediately release 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held for seven years at Guantánamo Bay, and to allow them to stay in the United States, because they are no longer considered enemy combatants …

  • Radio Free Asia – Lawyers' outrage at milk case ban
    Lawyers in China are warned against taking on cases related to a widening scandal over tainted milk …

  • China Digital Times– Child abductions plague China
    From Al Jazeera: China is struggling to cope with a wave of child abductions which sees more than 200 babies and toddlers being stolen every day, according to some estimates …

  • Boxun News – Exiled Chinese democracy activists to commemorate twenty years since Tiananmen Square crackdown
    On June 4, 1989, a student-led democracy movement in China's Tiananmen Square resulted in a brutal military crackdown in which hundreds if not thousands of people were killed. A group of exiled Chinese democracy activists today Friday October 3 jointly announced that on next year's 20th anniversary of this tragic event …