Archive for April, 2008

Breaking News – Chinese community forms an organisation against forced removals and violence

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
 
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The formation of an anti-violence organisation named China National Anti-Demolition Home Alliance(CNADHA)was recently announced in China. The organising committee declared the establishment of the organisation, calling on victims of forced removals and those having lost land or their home in China to unite together to resist violence. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1389′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) [...]

Breaking News – Tragic lives of Laing Mountain child labour exposed

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
 
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In recent years, large numbers of children from the Yi Tribe in Liang Mountain in Sichuan province were tricked into working as child labourers at factories in the Delta Pearl Region. Most of the children are under 16 and enticed with so called high wages by labour hunters, who seek out children from poor families, [...]

Breaking News – Intensified crackdown by Communists on Tibetans further deteriorates the situation in Tibet

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
 
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According to reliable sources in Mainland China, on 28th April, foreign media reporters were forbidden to enter Lhasa. The Chinese communist authorities specifically reduced deployment of the military, and police in Lhasa, and opened Sera Monastery in Lhasa that had been sieged for days while monks are allowed access to the temple. Yet, believers are [...]

Breaking News – Hebei officials said: It’s alright to sacrifice the public interests for the Olympics

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
 
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At present, Beijing Municipal Government is now actively constructing canals to pool four reservoirs in Hebei Province, to divert the water to Beijing Olympic competition venues in order to satisfy the water demand during Beijing Olympics in August. This makes the drought-stricken Hebei Province worse, causing farmers anguish with no water available for use to [...]

Breaking News – EV71 intestinal virus spreads to neighboring provinces

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
 
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Since March 2008, the EV71 intestinal virus epidemic in Fuyang city of Anhui Province has gradually expanded. As of April 28th, more than 1520 juvenile cases had been reported, which was more than double of the recorded figures on April 21st. 20 juvenile victims died of the disease, after multiple organ failure in the brain, [...]

Breaking News – Chinese students facing prosecution for extreme behavior during Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in Canberra

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

On April 24 Beijing Olympic torch arrived in the Australian capital, Canberra, where relay was completed in chaos, but tens of thousands of Chinese students were organized to appear in Canberra from various cities of Australia. The “temporary red tides” posed by their actions and words astonishingly shocked Australian communities and the Western media, as [...]

Stage of the East: Jia Kuo: Divine Performing Arts troupe is taking on the mission of resurrecting traditional Chinese culture

Posted by Ben Smith on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

On the 17th of April, the first show in New Zealand by the Divine Performing Arts New York Troupe came to a successful close. Jia Kuo, the son of former Secretary-General of the China Association of Science and Technology in Shanxi Province – Jia Jia, also came to watch the show. Jia Kuo was very [...]

Breaking News – Outbreak of intestinal virus in Anhui province leaves 19 children dead.

Posted by Ben Smith on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
 
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Since March this year, children in Fuyang city of Anhui province have been killed by a mysterious virus. Due to the prolonged silence by officials over the incidents, there has been widespread speculations as to the cause of the outbreak. In recent days experts have concluded that the virus is the intestinal virus called entero [...]

Breaking News – East Airlines pilots in China go on hunger strike over resignation disputes

Posted by Ben Smith on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
 
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According to sources in China, disputes have erupted in recent days between pilots and the Shanghai division of East Airlines over pilot’s discontent over salary levels. One pilot revealed that 78 pilots have tendered letters of resignation, and have commenced hunger strikes and silent vigils in their efforts to resign. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1381′).each( [...]

Breaking News – Uncovering the horror of child labour in Liangshan and death threats against their lives

Posted by Ben Smith on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
 
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On the 28th April, news emerged from Sichuan province that in the last few years, large numbers of children from the Yi ethnic autonomous prefecture of liangshan have been lured to factories in the Pearl River Delta region to perform child labour. They were children mainly under 16 years of age. Foremen from the factories [...]