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Post-quake challenge: 5 million homeless

Post-quake challenge: 5 million homeless

05.21.08 posted by eguda 111 views 2 comments
The Chinese government is grappling with the next urgent task in the aftermath of last week's 8.0-magnitude deadly earthquake -- how to shelter up to 5 million residents in Sichuan Province who are now homeless. The following efforts including immune and psycho-support may be more important than early time.
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China 'Remains a Land of Torture and Repression'

China 'Remains a Land of Torture and Repression'

04.30.08 posted by pondy 129 views 9 comments
As China marks the 100 day countdown to the Olympics, Shao Jiang, an organizers of the pro-democracy protests in Tienanmen Square discusses the brutality that existed in China and still exists. Shao looks at the crackdown in 1989 and the recent one that took place in Tibet as signs that China has not changed its human rights policies over the last 19 years.
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China Sentences Human Rights Activist to Jail

China Sentences Human Rights Activist to Jail

04.03.08 posted by pondy 170 views 1 comment
Hu Jia, one of China's most prominent human rights advocates, was given 3 1/2 years in prison for "inciting state subversion." The evidence against Hu included five Internet articles he wrote and two interviews he gave to foreign media. Hu had been under house arrest for the past 7 months.
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US Official: Skipping Olympic Opening Ceremonies is a`Cop-Out'

US Official: Skipping Olympic Opening Ceremonies is a`Cop-Out'

04.13.08 posted by pondy 152 views no comments
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend the opening ceremonies. France's Nicolas Sarkozy is on the fence. This position is a "cop-out" according to President Bush's National Security adviser, who recommended other nations follow the Bush model of "quiet diplomacy." Has that really worked out so well?
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China Seeks to Relocate 12 Million Quake Survivors

China Seeks to Relocate 12 Million Quake Survivors

05.20.08 posted by pondy 104 views 2 comments
China will relocate more than 12 million people made homeless by the country's deadliest earthquake in 32 years as the threat of rain heightened concern disease will spread. The May 12 temblor destroyed 5.4 million homes and damaged another 21.4 million,
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China Gets 'Gold Medal' - for Executions

China Gets 'Gold Medal' - for Executions

04.15.08 posted by jason 146 views no comments
Just five countries - China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the US - were responsible for 88% of known executions in the world, Amnesty International said today in its report on known executions in 2007. In China, were at least 60 crimes carry the penalty of death, 470 known to be executed - the most in the world. Experts feel the actual number or executions in China might be much higher.
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Eyewitnesses Recount Terrifying Day in Tibet

Eyewitnesses Recount Terrifying Day in Tibet

03.27.08 posted by jason 171 views no comments
Great report in the Washington Post on an eyewitness account of the violence first breaking out in Tibet.
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Tibetans Mark Deaths of Protesters in China

Tibetans Mark Deaths of Protesters in China

04.28.08 posted by jason 120 views 6 comments
Thousands of Tibetan exiles in India and Nepal, including their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, marked the deaths of protesters during last month's violent upheaval in Tibet with prayers and traditional funeral rituals. China lashed out at the Dalai Lama again, accusing him of manipulating opinion and governments in the West. What do you think?
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Foreign Media in China Harassed on Tibet

Foreign Media in China Harassed on Tibet

04.07.08 posted by jason 145 views no comments
The China PR machine is now working overtime. Western reporters in China have received harassing phone calls, e-mails and text messages, some with death threats, supposedly from ordinary Chinese complaining about alleged bias in coverage of recent anti-Chinese protests in Tibet. Many experts believe that the Chinese government is behind these calls.
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China quake death toll soars past 50,000

China quake death toll soars past 50,000

05.22.08 posted by chab13 96 views 1 comment
The death toll from the devastating earthquake in southwestern China has leaped to 51,151 -- an increase of almost 10,000 -- government officials reported on Thursday.
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