Archive for July, 2007

China has cornered the global market for vitamins

Posted by Michael Anderson on Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
 
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SHIJIAZHUANG, China - If you pop a vitamin C tablet in your mouth, it’s a good bet it came from China. Indeed, many of the world’s vitamins are now made in China.In less than a decade, China has captured 90 percent of the U.S. market for vitamin C, driving almost everyone else out of business.
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Guangxi upsurge over birth control

Posted by Michael Anderson on Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
 
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News from 26th May, uprisings broke out in Buo-Bai County of Guangxi Province with fifty thousand people involved from seven towns since the 17th May to 23rd May. Angry crowds burnt down the three-story government building in Buo-Bai Napu County on 17th May. The siege surrounding the government complex topped on the 19th May. The [...]

EOC 47 - Travel Special “Beating the streets of Taiwan”

Posted by Ben Smith on Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
 
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Evicted Residents join Quit CCP campaign

Posted by Michael Anderson on Monday, July 30th, 2007
 
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According to a report on 26th July, it has been two years since the residents at Hua Lou Street, Wuhan City, rose up to the forced eviction implemented by the government on them. Lately, the local government with the police authority have crushed down hard on them. The local police regulated a special force to [...]

Heavy rains and mudslide cause major road fault in Yun Yang

Posted by Michael Anderson on Monday, July 30th, 2007
 
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According to a report by the Epoch Times on the 13th of July, at the site of where a mudslide occurred at satellite village of Nanxi Town, Yun-Yang County of Chongqing City, the passers-by had to go on the slope in order to pass. The same day, the slope continued to slide down, further hampering [...]

Chinese Human Rights “Frontline” Website attacked by virus

Posted by Michael Anderson on Sunday, July 29th, 2007
 
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Human Rights Protection and Anti-Violent Front Line website attacked by Virus, Members of the Front line are arrested Recently, The Human Rights Protection and Anti-Violent Front Line website (Front Line) has been attacked by a computer virus. Now information from Mainland China is blocked. Also, The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has arrested and summoned many [...]

Retired Cadres warn Chinas President of the Regimes demise

Posted by Michael Anderson on Friday, July 27th, 2007
 
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The Retired High-level Cadres of the Communist Regime Wrote to Hu Jintao Warning him of the Demise of the Party and CountryAs per the Report by the Epoch Times dated 16th July, a group of retired high-ranking officials wrote an open letter to Hu Jintao, recounting with anguish various failures since the reform that led [...]

Two thousand retired soldiers in China appeal for settlement

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, July 26th, 2007
 
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On the 17th of July, 2007, many retired soldiers from different areas of YanTai city, gathered at the front gate of YanTai People’s Congress Hall at 8 o’clock in the morning, to appeal for proper settlement. They protested against the local government, accusing it of covering up the settlement policy.Mr. Yanbing Qiao, a retired soldier [...]

Police in China can seize Falun Gong Practitioners at will !

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
 
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Insiders revealed that following the ordinance of the authority, the police could seize Falun Gong practitioners at will. It was reported that Chuan-Yin Court in Jilin City opened a trial on five Falun Gong practitioners on the 10th of July whereby the Judge deprived the defendants of the rights to seek any legal aid to [...]

Large Chinese Bus Drivers Strike

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
 
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Enough Is Enough: Thousands of bus drivers in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province went on strike.Thousands of bus drivers of the Jinzhou Municipal Public Transport System in Liaoning Province started their strike on the 18th of July, protesting the state-owned enterprise being privatised and operated by the controlling shareholder. The strike has gone into its third [...]