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Archive for November, 2007
China: Blogger's home searched
From an RFA interview with Zhai Minglei (ZH), pictured here on the far left at CN BloggerCon (Photo: Josh Chin): “Five people came to see me at about 10 this morning [Thursday]. Three of them showed ID which confirmed they were from the Shanghai Cultural bureau. They said that I was involved in the illegal [...]
China: Hepatitis B carriers' lifeline shut down
Many people come to this forum when they are on the brink of psychological breakdown, to get a little emotional support. These closures are going to affect a lot of people. In the past we have had a lot of people on the forums talking about committing suicide. Whenever we saw someone talking like that, we immediately found out their location and found a volunteer to go and support them. There was a young lad in Shenzhen recently who was going to jump off a building … and we sent someone round there to talk him down. So, this Web site has really helped a lot of people. — Guo Dong, forum moderator
Thousands protest over wages in Guangdong
Thousands of workers at a Hong Kong-invested AV equipment factory in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong blocked the streets with a sit-in outside their workplace Tuesday. They said they were protesting wage deductions. Several thousand workers at the Aigao Electronics Co. in Houjie township staged a sit-in in the main streets near the factory, in the suburbs of Dongguan city. They told RFA’s Cantonese service that the sit-in occurred on a major street near the factory, snarling traffic and prompting a heavy police turnout.
More clashes in Tibet
More news is emerging about another large-scale clash between Tibetan nomads and Chinese officials, this time in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) of China. It started last week when three teenaged Buddhist monks went shopping in Baikar (in Chinese, Baiga Shang), Nagchu (in Chinese, Naqu) prefecture, in what used to be Tibet. Police were called [...]
Laos: Illegal logging still goes on
RFA’s Lao service has found that Lao officials are still turning a blind eye to the illegal trade in timber, despite tought new restrictions and loud cries of alarm at massive deforestation in the impoverished Southeast Asian country. A highly placed source said the export of black-market timber remains widespread, thanks to systemic corruption among [...]
Cantonese: Guangdong detentions over land protest
Hundreds of officials and security personnel were patrolling Shibixia village in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong Monday following demonstrations by local residents. The uneasy state of calm descended following demonstrations early Monday when dozens of local residents protested the detention of several of their number at the weekend who had been planning to lodge [...]
Relatives gather for sentencing of Tibetan nomad
Relatives of a Tibetan nomad convicted of subversion for demanding the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet are gathering in Dartsedo (in Chinese, Kangding) as they wait to learn what his sentence will be. Ronggyal Adrak was tried at the Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture People’s Court in Dartsedo on Monday, Oct. 29, on charges of [...]
North Korean Orphans: A Long-Running Story
Three North Korean children found wandering in northeastern China have been granted refugee status in the United States, and overseas rights groups say there could be thousands more. These “second-wave” orphans are mostly the children of North Korean women who were forced to marry Chinese men. But the problem isn’t new. Georgeta Mircioiu, 75, worked [...]
The cyberdissident's mother and the cyberdissident's wife
[UPDATE: RFA's Cantonese service -- 粤语部首页 -- interviews Yu and Gao as they arrive in China - see below] Here are some highlights of recent interviews given by Shi Tao’s mother, Gao Qinsheng, and Wang Xiaoning’s wife, Yu Ling, to RFA’s Mandarin service (ZH). You can hear the 30-minute Mandarin audio clip in its entirety [...]
Running aground on the ethical shoals: Jerry Yang meets Shi Tao's mother
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko_7yIce2GQ] Yahoo’s chief executive Jerry Yang and executive vice president Michael Callahan faced a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in Washington yesterday over providing misleading information to Congress last year as part of an investigation into the company’s role in disclosing former journalist and cyberdissident Shi Tao’s identity to Chinese authorities.