Archive for the 'Torch relay' Category

Breaking News – Communist propaganda meddles with press freedom

Posted by Daniel Teng on Monday, June 23rd, 2008
 
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A few days ago; the CCP’s Propaganda Ministry issued an ordinance setting out five rules on reporting the Olympic Torch Relay in Mainland China. There is to be one voice for all reports on sudden and sensitive issues, further tightening control of the news media.

Breaking News – Lhasa, one hundred-day resistance against despotic rule

Posted by Daniel Teng on Monday, June 23rd, 2008
 
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It has been one hundred days since the Communist authorities violently suppressed mass resistance in Lhasa against its despotic rule. Since then the Beijing Olympic torch relay has reached Lhasa.

Breaking News – Mass arrests of Falun Gong Practitioners as Olympics approach

Posted by Daniel Teng on Monday, April 21st, 2008
 
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According to reports from the website Clearwisdom, a major website covering the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Over the last month, in Guangzhou city of Guangdong Province, it has been confirmed that local police or those of the Gestapo-like 610 office have arrested at least 11 practitioners. Local police also searched practitioners’ homes and [...]

Edge on China 60 – Headlines from China

Posted by Ben Smith on Monday, December 10th, 2007
 
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In this episode of Edge on China, toxic chemicals found in Chinese food exports, human to human bird flu transmission fears arise, and China forces Miss Tibet out of beauty pageant.
In the latest scare over the safety of Chinese exports, one of China’s largest and most well known food companies has halted exports of all [...]

Edge on China 57 – Special Edition; Human Rights Torch Relay graces Queensland

Posted by Ben Smith on Sunday, November 11th, 2007
 
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The Human rights torch relay made its trip around the rest of Queensland after visiting Brisbane, touching down in the Sunshine Coast, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns, and the Gold Coast. The support from local Politicians, NGO’s, and human rights groups was enormous. In this show hear speeches from Joe Natoli the Mayor of the Maroochy Shire [...]

Edge on China 55 – Special Edition; Human Rights Torch Relay arrives in Sydney Australia.

Posted by Ben Smith on Sunday, October 28th, 2007
 
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The Human Rights Torch Relay arrived in Sydney, for the Australian leg of its journey. A day of activity surrounded the torch’s arrival as it draws attention to the Chinese communist parity’s gross human rights abuses in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Join us for an interview with Manly Mayor Dr Peter MacDonald [...]

Edge on China 54 – Headlines from China

Posted by Ben Smith on Sunday, October 21st, 2007
 
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In this Bulletin,
US President Bush meets with Dalia Lama, Protests abound in China, and the Human Rights Torch Relay moves through Sweden

Edge on China 53 – Headlines from China

Posted by Ben Smith on Sunday, October 14th, 2007
 
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In this Bulletin
Dalai Lama recieves the Congressioal Gold Medal, The Human Rights Torch Relay arrives in Gothenburg Sweden, and Mass Rallies in Hong Kong.
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China should view the Dalai Lama’s high-profile visit to Washington next week as a chance to listen to the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader who Beijing shuns as a Tibetan separatist, his envoy [...]

Breaking News – Human Rights Torch arrives in Sweden

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, October 11th, 2007
 
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On the 7th of October 2007, The Global Human Rights Torch from Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, finally arrived at the first stop in Sweden, Malmo, the largest city in the south. The most popular newspaper in the south of Sweden, Sweden South Daily reported with an early morning article, titled: “A Kind of Burning [...]