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ICT - The CCP persecutes Uighur people before the Olympics

Posted by Daniel on Monday, July 14th, 2008
 
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The Chinese Communist authorities have used terrorism as a basis for prosecuting fifteen ethnic Uighurs. The United States Congress human rights core group issued a statement accusing the Chinese Communists in Beijing of persecuting the Uighur people before the Olympic games.

ICT - Democracy advocate detained again prior to Beijing Olympics

Posted by Daniel on Monday, July 14th, 2008
 
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According to recent news reports, with the Beijing Olympics fast approaching, dissidents and petitioners in various regions of China have been suppressed to varying degrees. A well-known dissident in Zhejiang, Fan Ziliang was again detained in a home raid by authorities. This has been the second time since his detention two months ago.

ICT - Chinese residents voice support for a police attacker

Posted by Daniel on Monday, July 14th, 2008
 
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The attack on Shanghai police on July first by Yang Jia, a Beijing resident has been closely watched by Chinese residents. One former military officer says there is overwhelming support for Yang’s actions and if Yang was to be sentenced, it is the police who have broken the law.

ICT - Appeals to Eutelsat to stop helping the CCP deceive people

Posted by Daniel on Monday, July 14th, 2008
 
 Appeal to Eutelsat [2:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


Reporters without Borders disclosed a recording and confirmed that to please the Chinese Communist Regime, the Eutelsat Company deliberately cut off the satellite signal of the New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) and Sound of Hope. People from various social circles have appealed to Eutelsat not to help the Chinese Communist dictatorship suppress the Chinese people’s […]

Inside China Today - Ten thousand businesses in strife as Wenzhou enters economic downturn

Posted by Daniel on Monday, July 14th, 2008
 
 Wenzhou economic downturn [1:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


Due to a range of influential factors such as escalating raw material costs, and unexpected Renminbi exchange rate trends, the most prosperous city in Zhejiang province, Wenzhou, has entered an economic downturn. Approximately twenty percent of businesses have ceased production, or have reduced production by half.

The Call For Freedom Echoes From Leipzig to Flushing

Posted by Catherine on Sunday, July 13th, 2008
 
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 This is Catherine Hennessy bringing you a special report titled “The Call for Freedom Echoes From Leipzig to Flushing” edited by Thomas Kleiber Special to The Epoch Times. 
West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early on November 11, 1989, as a section of the wall is demolished, an event that the “Monday Demonstrations” […]

Breaking News - Impact fears over one hundred million single children in China

Posted by Daniel on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
 
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The number of single children in China under the one child policy has exceeded one hundred million, according to a conference co-hosted by the Shanghai China Population Welfare Foundation.

Breaking News - Attorney Zhen Enchong under house arrest

Posted by Daniel on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
 
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Shanghai attorney Zhen Enchong who exposed a scandal of former Shanghai Communist Party Secretary Chen Liangyu is being kept under house arrest, according to sources on July sixth.

Breaking News - Dangers lurk in Chinese real estate bubble

Posted by Daniel on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
 
 Plunging housing market [1:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


The rise of the real estate market in China has caught the Central Government’s attention over the past two years. In late two thousand and seven, the State Council passed a series of legislation to suppress intentional manipulation of the real estate market, which saw a subsequent fall in property prices.
The market currently faces the […]

Breaking News - Beijing’s torrential rain highlights inadequate transport infrastructure

Posted by Daniel on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
 
 Weak Transport System [1:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


On the evening of July third, heavy rainfall in Beijing and ninety percent of flights were delayed at the Capital Airport. The airport highway was temporarily closed. Power at Chongwenmen Subway Station was cut due to flooding, resulting in the main north-south train route being cut off for three hours, stranding many passengers.

Breaking News - Human rights activist Hu Jia under heavy restrictions

Posted by Daniel on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
 
 Hu Jia Prison Term [1:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


Recently, renowned Beijing human rights advocate Hu Jia was transferred to Chaobai Prison in Tianjin. He has since been placed under heavy restrictions, in which four prisoners have been instructed to teach him the prison code. Hu’s mother, wife and daughter had visited him on June fifth. Subsequently Hu wrote separate letters to his parents, […]

Breaking News - Chinese laws are child’s play if earthquake investigations neglected

Posted by Daniel on Monday, July 7th, 2008
 
 Earthquake response is child's play [1:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


Former Chinese top level structural engineer Xia Yifan and Beijing lawyer Wei Rujio equated Chinese legislation to child’s play in the wake of the Sichuan disaster. Their comments come after twenty experts said in a conference that the main cause of collapsed buildings during the May twelfth earthquake was the earthquake itself, and that lucky […]