Breaking News - Speech at the Subcommittee on Human Rights, European Union
by Hong Bing Yuan
26 November 2007
I have been invited by Madam Helene Flautre, the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Union, Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union to attend the human rights hearing. However, due to some visa complications, I was unable to attend the meeting in person, but to [...]
Asia Cast for Tuesday 27th November
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In this Bulletin…
- New Government to apologise to Aborigines
- Blooming Udumbara flowers found in Jinan, Shandong and
- Iraq Agree on Talks for Future Relationship
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Kevin Rudd has announced the new government will issue a formal apology to Aborigines for the abuses they suffered in the past, prime minister-elect Kevin Rudd has [...]
Asia Cast Monday 26th November
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In this Bulletin…
- French envoy finalise trade deals with China;
- Pakistan police attempt to detain Sharif supporters; and
- Earthquakes and severe weather cause havoc in South-East Asia.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and an envoy of industrialist dignitaries are visiting China and say they have finalised trade deals worth almost thirty billion [...]
Unlawful eviction renders 3800 villagers homeless in Fujian Province.
News sourced from Mainland China disclosed that Ti-Ting Town government in Fujian Province forced evictions on the local farmers without announcement, any legal proceedings or offering any settlement for relocations. The local farmers of Ti-Ting Town sent their representatives to consult with the government to defend their rights.
But the government disregarded it totally and [...]
Edge on China 59 - Headlines from China
Yuan Wei-Jing, the wife of the blind human rights activist Chen Guang-Cheng, wrote an open letter to the state heads on the twenty-second of November. She shared her consent of Hu and Wen to be concerned with the life of the common people and to run the country by law.
Yet, the officials at the grass [...]
Asia Cast for Sunday 25th November
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In this Bulletin…
- Australia votes for new leadership;
- Pope Benedict inducts twenty three new cardinals; and
- Pakistan’s President Musharraf clear to contest elections.
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Australia has effectively voted in a new Prime Minister, with the Labor Party’s Kevin Rudd achieving a resounding defeat over former Prime Minister John Howard.
Mr Rudd has been [...]
Breaking News - CCP Manipulates Australian Judiciary to intervene Court Verdict (I)
On 5th November, the Supreme Court of New South Wales judged that the plaintiff Pan Yu (a Falun Gong practitioner) won the case, and the defendant (the Chinese Minister of Commerce) Bo Xilai was guilty and needs to give financial compensation to the plaintiff.
The judgment of the court has had a great impact on [...]
Breaking News - Wen Jiabao opposes limited cash withdrawals
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo revealed, during an interview in Singapore on November 19, that he opposed the Shenzhen Bank’s policy to limit daily withdrawals to thirty thousand RMB, and that appropriate legal remedies should be adopted to address this. Wen said that the currency flow from Shenzhen Bank is nearly half of the country’s total, [...]
Do the young Australian school leavers who invade the Gold Coast, Queensland, need some military training…Australian style ‘boot camps’.
Would the mindless training seen in Chinese high schools and universities also benefit from the team approach of ‘boot camps’?
The Militarisation of Education in China
By Robert Burns Ph.D.
While visiting Beihua University in Jilin City in the northeast [...]
Do the young Australian school leavers who invade the Gold Coast, Queensland, need some military training…Australian style ‘boot camps’.
Would the mindless training seen in Chinese high schools and universities also benefit from the team approach of ‘boot camps’?
The Militarisation of Education in China
By Robert Burns Ph.D.
While visiting Beihua University in Jilin City in the northeast [...]
