China in the headlines – 13 October 2008

  • Published on 13/10/2008
  • by: KimB
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In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

  • Radio Free Asia – Chinese react to Nobel award
    Online comments registered disappointment after the Nobel Prize for peace was awarded to Finland's ex-president, as the wife of jailed AIDS activist and Nobel nominee Hu Jia reported tighter security.…

  • Wall St Journal – Censorship isn't good for China’s health
    As the world watched the fireworks of the Beijing Games' opening ceremony, the seeds of China's latest deadly public health disaster were being sown …

  • AP – China says it won't torture Guantanamo detainees
    China on Thursday rejected concerns that it would torture Chinese Muslims held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay if they are returned to China, saying they will be dealt with according to the law …

  • Financial Times – Rare victory for China's land activists
    The Chinese hamlet of Bainitang is only about 150 kilometres upriver from the bright lights of Hong Kong. The journey to the impoverished settlement, however, takes a visitor back in time along progressively worse roads, with the last few kilometres an almost invisible side path …

  • Reuters – China sets plan to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders
    Authorities in the Chinese province of Sichuan plan to spend 5 billion yuan ($732 million) to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders in permanent houses, state media said, as part of efforts to promote the development of ethnic Tibetan areas ...

  • The New York Times – The rule of law in Guantanamo
    A federal judge in Washington has struck an important blow for the rule of law by ordering that 17 detainees be freed from Guantánamo Bay. But the Bush administration is fighting the ruling to avoid having the case become an open window into the outlaw world of President Bush’s detention camps …

  • Christian Science Monitor – When nations kill their own
    At the height of the bloody suppression by the Burma (Myanmar) regime of protesting monks last year, the heated question was whether the international community should intervene. In response, a well-known Chinese professor told an American newspaper "China has used tanks to kill people on Tiananmen Square. It is Myanmar's sovereign right to kill their own people, too." …

  • China Digital Times – A reporter's investigation exposed a scandal
    Originally from Dayang Net. Partially translated by Wu Nan. Last week China’s State Council formed a special investigative team to examine a landslide accident in Loufan county of Shanxi Province …

  • Human Rights in China – June fourth memorial archive
    To commemorate the 20th anniversary of June Fourth, Human Rights in China is expanding its June Fourth website and developing new and updated content …

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