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24 July 2008 year (time zone GMT 00:00)  Number of sources in English: 4603
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China Dissident's Wife Appeals For End To Harassment

24.07.2008 11:48    chinadigitaltimes.net
From Reuters:The wife of a blind, jailed Chinese rights activist has appealed to President Hu Jintao to end official harassment of her family, saying she cannot wait for the Olympics to end.Yuan Weijing's husband, Chen Guangcheng, was jailed for four


Angry Youth: The New Generation's Neocon Nationalists

24.07.2008 11:48    chinadigitaltimes.net
Evan Osnos writes in the New Yorker:On the morning of April 15th, a short video entitled "2008 China Stand Up!" appeared on Sina, a Chinese Web site. The video's origin was a mystery: unlike the usual YouTube-style clips, it had

US Lawmakers Consider Olympic Rights Message To China

24.07.2008 11:48    chinadigitaltimes.net
From AFP:A resolution was introduced Wednesday in the US House of Representatives asking China to end human rights abuses and its support for tainted governments in Sudan and Myanmar in line with "Olympic traditions of freedom and openness".The resolution, proposed

China Buying Silence In Quake

24.07.2008 11:48    chinadigitaltimes.net
From International Herald Tribune:The official came for Yu Tingyun in his village one evening last week. While clutching a contract and a pen, he asked Yu to get into his car.Yu's daughter had died in a cascade of concrete and

Rewards And Risks Of A Career In The Legal System

24.07.2008 11:45    chinadigitaltimes.net
From Financial Times:Tao Jingzhou and Teng Biao represent the yin and yang of China's justice system. Both graduated from the prestigious Peking University law school, but they have followed very different career paths and been rewarded in very different ways.Mr

Relocation For China's Three Gorges Dam Finished

24.07.2008 11:45    chinadigitaltimes.net
From AP:Residents in the last township to be moved to make way for the rising waters of the Three Gorges Dam reservoir have been relocated, a state news agency reported Wednesday.The emptying of Gaoyang town of Hubei province, part of

Open China's Great Firewall

24.07.2008 11:45    chinadigitaltimes.net
From Christian Science Monitor:China has more people online than any other country. But its rulers are also world-class obstructors of the Internet, a practice sure to be under scrutiny during the Olympic Games, when foreigners used to Web freedom will

Beijing-Bound Artwork Seized by Chinese Customs

24.07.2008 11:45    chinadigitaltimes.net
From ARTINFO:Chinese-born, New York-based artist Zhang Hongtu's recent experiences with Chinese authorities in the run-up to next month's Olympic Games have left him "very angry," he told ARTINFO yesterday. Zhang, who shows in New York with Cheryl McGinnis, had a

An Investigation Into Officials' Anti-petition Effort in China

24.07.2008 11:41    chinadigitaltimes.net
Phoenix Weekly, a news magazine based in Hong Kong, published an investigative story recently on how local officials in China try to prevent residents in their jurisdiction from petitioning in Beijing. According to the article, various levels of local governments

Dan Blumenthal: Concerns With Respect to China's Energy Policy

24.07.2008 11:41    chinadigitaltimes.net
Written by Dan Blumenthal, a resident fellow in Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute, from AEI Online: The tremendous increase in China's appetite for energy, and the response to this by regional powers, is changing the dynamics of international

Off Camera: Broadcasters Fighting With Chinese

24.07.2008 11:41    chinadigitaltimes.net
From AP The Beijing Olympics may not look much different from previous games on TV.Behind the studio sets, however, world broadcasters have been squaring off for months with Chinese officials over censorship. Among the issues: what they'll be allowed to

Powerful Aftershocks Hit China Quake Area, 1 Dead

24.07.2008 11:41    chinadigitaltimes.net
From Reuters At least three powerful aftershocks hit southwest China's quake area on Thursday, killing one elderly person and injuring more than a dozen, the official Xinhua news agency said.More than 69,000 people have been confirmed dead and some 18,000

Khomeini Reluctantly Renounces War

24.07.2008 01:34    media.ohmynews.com
Khomeini repeated how painful it had been for him to accept UN Resolution 598, but provided no information as to what had prompted him to do so. The Supreme Leader, however, made it very clear that the decision had been

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