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By Zhao Zifa 09/10/08
BEIJING—According to an undisclosed source, the Chinese Communist regime abducted China’s outspoken human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng with his wife, teenage daughter and young son a few months before the Beijing Olympic Games. Since then, they have been imprisoned at an undisclosed location in Daxing, south of Beijing, where they are subjected to extreme physical cruelty.
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By Zhang Haishan and Shi Yu 08/10/08
Virtually every eyeball in China was on the launch of Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou VII, just as the Chinese regime wanted. But among those eyeballs were many observant ones—maybe too observant for the Chinese Communist Party’s liking. |
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Radio Free China 08/10/08
On September 28, CNN aired an interview with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The discussion topics ranged from the Tiananmen Square massacre, human rights, the U.S. financial crisis, to political reform in China. However, Chinese state-run media, including the Xinhua News Agency, only aired Wen’s response on the U.S. financial crisis, and censored his responses on political reform in China. |
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Epoch Times 07/10/08
According to Minghui.net, on Oct. 1, China’s National Day, a large number of writings supporting 43 million withdrawls from the Chinese Communist Party, among other things, were found in a northern Chinese city. |
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Radio Free China 06/10/08
Police dispersed over 100 parents on September 14 from a ceremony to bemoan children who died in collapsed school buildings during the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province of southwest China. A teacher was reported to have been arrested for writing memorial slogans for the children. |
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Radio Free China 06/10/08
A Christian house church recently filed a lawsuit against the Shuangliu County Bureau of People's Religious Affairs for illegally shutting down a religious gathering held by the church on May 2, 2008. This is the first lawsuit case of house church Christians against government religious authority in China. |
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Reuters 04/09/08
HONG KONG/BEIJING—Savvy Internet users in China began avoiding the version of Skype offered by its Chinese partner two years ago, but news it filtered and recorded text messages has sparked new worries about the global firm's commitment to privacy.
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Epoch Times 04/09/08
CHINA, Beijing—Since the beginning of the year, housing markets in many of China’s cities have continued to decline. Beijing’s existing home market has also experienced a decline for two consecutive months in both volume and value. Centaline China Property Research Center recently pointed out that the sell-off of existing homes signaled an upcoming buyers market. |
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Epoch Times 01/10/08
Guangzhou authorities announced that close to 40 percent of the furniture produced in Guangdong Province, China, fails the quality test. |
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Epoch Times 01/10/08
The Sanlu Group, the source of tainted powered milk, will pay huge refunds and even medical bills for babies suffering from kidney-stones. Sanlu, facing the fate of bankruptcy, would layoff 30,000 employees. Those who would be impacted nationwide may reach 350,000. |
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By Qiao Qi 30/09/08
There has been much coverage by Western media over the last two years about the health risks posed by "Made in China" products, including Chinese export of counterfeit medicines. Chinese counterfeit medicines may have already caused hundreds—if not thousands—of deaths outside of China. |
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By Shi Yu 29/09/08
On September 27, Xinhua.net, the official news agency of the Chinese regime, published a short apology on its homepage for fabricating an article dated Sept. 27, but accidentally posted two days before. |
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Epoch Times 29/09/08
CHINA, Fujian Province—Clothing, declared as “ladies’ beach pants” and “dresses” for export to Finland, were found to be old garments from Xiamen City, Fujian Province, recently. Authorities confiscated and destroyed them, some of which were tainted by feces. Businessmen under investigation complained that they were victims also, claiming that it was the suppliers who had tricked them by using old garments for new ones. |
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Central News Agency 27/09/08
TAIPEI— In response to the recent contaminated Sanlu milk powder scandal, the average wages of poorly treated wet nurses have been rising in mainland China. In a nanny service center in Wenzhou of China’s Zhejiang Province, some wet nurses demanded a monthly salary of 18,000 yuan (US $2,600) , surpassing the current top salary of 10,000 yuan ($1,500) seen in Shenzhen’s wet nurse market. |
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Epoch Times 27/09/08
BEIJING—The health of a jailed Buddhist Chinese dissident outspoken on Tibet and other sensitive topics, is poor and he is not being allowed to communicate freely with his family, according to a source who met him recently. |
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Epoch Times 26/09/08
Just as China faces another food safety crisis, an article titled “Licensing Ceremony For Food Products Specially Supplied for the Central State Agencies” is spreading widely on the Internet both inside and outside China. The article discloses how China’s high-ranking officials only use high quality organic food products that come from special supply bases. |
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Central News Agency 26/09/08
TAIPEI—Heavy rain and landslides since Monday have seriously damaged the area which was hit by the May 12 Sichuan earthquake. The latest toll stands at nine dead, 340 injured, 35 missing in Beichuan County, and eight dead and 38 missing in Mianyang City.
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By Charlotte Cuthbertson 25/09/08
Chinese ex-pats are saying Westerners are naïve about doing business in China and do not understand the long reach of the communist party and its presence behind everything. |
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By Wen Long 23/09/08
In early September 2008, China’s official media reported a number of cases of ocean contamination. One example occurred last month in Qingdao City at the sailing venue for the 2008 Olympics. |
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Epoch Times 23/09/08
According to China’s Internet News, on September 19, an elementary teacher in Hunan Province pushed four students off a building, killing two and critically injuring the other two.
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By Wen Hua 23/09/08
Up to 10million infants in China may have future complications as a result of drinking contaminated milk powder. |
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By Zhang Jianbao 23/09/08
The Chinese authorities have been hurriedly inspecting factories across China since the Shijiazhuang-based Sanlu company, which supplies nearly a fifth of China's market with baby formula, was exposed just over a week ago knowingly selling tainted milk.
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Epoch Times 22/09/08
CHINA— In mid August, Ms. Zhang Sukun, 76 years, old rushed back to Shenyang City from Beijing to do maintenance on her house, at the request of her former neighbor. But after she finished, she couldn't pass through the security check points for the Beijing Olympics on the any trains or buses.
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Central News Agency 21/09/08
TAIPEI—The recent slowdown of economic growth in mainland China has resulted in reduced prices for steel. To survive this crisis, the iron and steel industry has been forced to cut production. According to the Hua Xia Times, most companies make such production cuts only in secret, in order to save face. |
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Epoch Times 20/09/08
A grassroots anti-Communist movement to “Quit the Party” continues in China, with banners appearing during the Mid-Autumn Festival harkening others to take part.
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Epoch Times 19/09/09
China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has lost two thirds of its value from the market’s peak of 6,124 last October. The combined loss of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets has reached 21 trillion yuan (approx. US$3 trillion). Shanghai Security News teamed up with stockstar.com to conduct an online survey, the result showed that 48 percent of investors suffered more than a 70 percent loss. |
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By Maria Zheng 18/09/08
Many might remember an incident where Zhang Danhong, the Chinese editor of Deutsche Welle's CCP-friendly Chinese program, accused Focus program journalist Guenther Baehr of having a Falun Gong background. |
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Reuters 16/09/08
SHIJIAZHUANG, China—Twenty percent of Chinese dairy firms probed in the wake of a baby milk health scare have been found to have produced melamine-tainted formula, state media reported on Tuesday. |
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By Gu Qinger 15/09/08
More than 200 taxi drivers in Chibi City, Hubei Province have been on a strike since September 8 over a management rights dispute with two taxicab companies. The authorities dispatched more than 200 military police to break up the strike, arresting six taxi drivers, and injuring and detaining another driver surnamed Deng for seven days |
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By Donna Ware and Gary Feuerberg 15/09/08
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The largest gathering of leaders of Asian human rights organizations in the nation’s capital gathered in the Gold Room of the Rayburn House Office building on Sept. 12, to discuss the post-Olympics human rights situation in China and throughout Asia. |
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By Wang Manna 14/09/08
A reporter for The New York Times recently disappeared in mainland China. Zhao Yan, had previously spent three years in prison for charges made against him after he conducted research for a story about the retirement of Jiang Zemin, former Chinese regime leader and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. |
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By Gu Qinger 14/09/08
On September 11, China’s Ministry of Health reported that a tainted baby formula had been linked to kidney stones in dozens of infants and one fatality. |
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Epoch Times 14/09/08
Property developers are slashing the prices of new residential and office buildings around China as real estate prices continue to fall. |
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Feng Yiran 13/09/08
CHINA—On the thirty-second anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death, Mao Memorial Hall on Tiananmen Square was closed. On the surface, it appears to be associated with the Paralympic Games. However, Chinese have had varied opinions about Mao for over 30 years. Mao obviously has become an embarrassment to the authorities.
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By Gu Qing’er & Li Qihua 12/09/08
Local residents say more than a thousand could be dead after the collapse of a mine waste reservoir in China, but officials are saying only 178 people have died so far. The landslide buried several villages and a market place in Linfen City, Shanxi Province on 8 September.
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Reuters 11/09/08
BEIJING—China is probing the death of a baby and the development of kidney stones in dozens of others who may have drunk the same milk formula, a grim reminder of a milk-powder scandal that killed 13 infants four years ago.
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Epochtimes 11/09/08
The results of the elections for the fourth Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) were announced on the morning of September 8. Sixty candidates have been successfully elected as members of the new Legislative Council. |
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By Guqing' er 10/09/08
CHINA—Although the large protest gainst alleged illegal fundraising was quashed by military police in Jishou City, Hunan Province, people have little confidence in the government’s promises to “return their investment in three months.” |
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Fang Xiao 08/09/08
China Information News published a report by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics on inflation trends in the last two years last week. The report stated that inflation has become a major problem in the current Chinese economy. The report also provided the main characteristics, reasons, and projected trends of inflation. |
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By Yan Xiu 08/09/08
Beijing has just spent a huge amount of money in hosting the 2008 Olympic Games. The 2008 Paralympics Games began last Saturday. Many public letters to Paralympics officials and handicapped athletes have shown up on China’s unofficial Internet sites. There have also been disabled people organizations calling for demonstrations against the Paralympics Games on opening day. |
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Reuters 06/09/08
BEIJING—Thousands of students attacked a county government office in central China, smashing windows and clashing with riot police, in unrest triggered by a property dispute, a rights group said on Saturday. |
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By Ji Da 04/09/08
As food prices soar worldwide, feeding 1.3 billion Chinese has become the primary goal in Beijing’s efforts to control the nation’s inflation. Rapid business and industrial development encroaches on major arable lands, and the problem of hybrid rice has caused a miraculous increase in output, but lower prices. The topical subject in today’s world is whether China’s development will be the determining factor for future food prices globably.
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RFA 03/09/2008
Nearly six months after a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, authorities are releasing some Buddhist monks from detention. |
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Epoch Times 03/09/2008
September 4 marks 113th day since the devastating Sichuan earthquake. It also marked the back-to-school day in mainland China, and also the day China started to lift its nine-year compulsory education fee. While 11,687 schools are in need of reconstruction and the exact casualties from the collapsed school buildings remain unannounced, Sichuan local schools are required to continue charging tuition fees. |
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By John Kusumi 04/09/2008
Folks, CNN is now caught in its worst nightmare, and I can't even gloat. It's tragic and it may cause lost sleep, the blame game, finger pointing, internal review, infighting, or worse. Congressional hearings may be in order, as an outside investigation.
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Ann Pei 03/09/08
According to China’s Ministry of Agriculture, the urban-to-rural average income differential last year was about 9,600 yuan (Approximately US$ 1400), the largest in the last 30 years. |
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Reuters 03/09/08
HONG KONG—Chinese police have arrested members of a gang suspected of murdering more than 100 disabled or elderly people and selling their corpses in a bizarre scheme to avoid cremations, a newspaper said on Tuesday. |
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Epoch Times 01/09/08
The Chinese regime officially admitted for the first time the Chinese exported dumplings that has sicken many Japanese could have been deliberately poisoned inside the factory in China, according to Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) report on August 30. |
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By Sonya Bryskine and Gary Du 01/09/08
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday August 30, making it the sixth tremor to rattle the volatile region since the May 12 “Great Sichuan Earthquake”. |
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By Shi Yu 01/09/08
On August 28, the Chinese communist regime’s mouthpiece Xinhua.net fabricated words by Zhang Danhong, the vice chairman of Voice of Germany (VOG)’s Chinese Department who was suspended from broadcasting because of her pro-communist comments. |
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Reuters 31/08/08
BEIJING—An earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces has killed 25 people, damaged or destroyed more than 100,000 homes and affected at least 440,000 residents, state media said on Sunday. |
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By Qiao Long 31/08/08
The Uyghur people in Xinjiang will start a religious ritual, the annual Sunnah of Fasting starting September 3rd for a month. Some residents in Xinjiang called Radio Free Asia (RFA) saying that the authorities oppose the ritual. |
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zhengjian.org 30/08/08
During the Warring States Period (5th century B.C. – 221 B.C.), the country of Zhao was about to attack the country of Yan. Su Dai, a representative for the king of Yan, spoke to King Hui of Zhao. He told King Hui the following story: |
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Epoch Times 30/08/08
Two people died and others were seriously wounded in a bomb attack in Xinjiang Province, China, August 27. The attack was directed at police in Jiash County, Kashi Prefecture, according to an AFP report. |
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Wen Hua 30/08/08
The Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, formally signed the “Supplemental agreement for the east section of the Sino-Russian border” at Diaoyutai State Guest House in July. This agreement between the two countries redefines a total of 4300 kilometers (2,672 miles) of the Sino-Russian border. According to critics, this act also means that China has permanently lost vast territories that originally belonged to China. |
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John Kusumi / 25.08.08
Folks, CNN is now caught in its worst nightmare, and I can't even gloat. It's tragic and it may cause lost sleep, the blame game, finger pointing, internal review, infighting, or worse. Congressional hearings may be in order, as an outside investigation. |
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By Yan Xiu 29/08/08
Tibet’s most famous female author and blogger, Woeser, was questioned by police for eight hours and accused of taking photographs on the street. Later, she returned home briefly to the capital, Lhasa. |
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By Qiao Long 29/08/08
Zeng Jinyan, wife of imprisoned Chinese AIDS rights activist Hu Jia, is currently under the surveillance of Chinese authorities and unable to contact outside media. It is believed that authorities may have also transported Zeng out of Beijing during the Olympics.
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Epoch Times 29/08/08
A posting on a mainland China BBS entitled, “The shocking adulteration of soft-shell turtles” by a Web user with the username, “The Third Grader” exposed the process of injecting water into the creatures and attracted more than 200,000 on-line responses. |
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Epoch Times 28/08/08
As China’s market is anticipated to see a slight dip in the post-Olympic economy, it has been reported recently that the Chinese Communist Party is considering a 370 billion yuan (approximately US$54.03 billion) economic stimulus package. |
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Reuters 28/08/08
BEIJING—Chinese central government departments misused or mismanaged more than 46 billion yuan ($6.73 billion) last year, including using disaster relief money to build government offices and diverting funds to speculate in stocks, the National Audit Office said on Thursday. |
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Reuters 27/08/08
BEIJING—One of China's longest-held political prisoners was released on Tuesday after serving 16 years of a 20-year jail sentence for setting up a political party in defiance of a ban by ruling Communist authorities. |
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Epoch Times 27/08/08
The China Earthquake Network Center (CENC) reported that a 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Zhongba County, Xigaze Prefecture in the western region of Tibet on August 25 at 9:22 p.m. |
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Epoch Times 27/08/08
A huge explosion occurred around 6 a.m. on August 25 in a chemical plant in Guangxi province located in southern China. As of August 26, 16 people have been confirmed dead, 60 people have been hospitalized, and six are missing. Preliminary investigation shows that the accident was caused by negligence towards work safety. |
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