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- 'Two shot dead' by Chinese police [BBC] "Two ethnic Uighurs have been shot dead by police in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang province, officials have said. A government statement announced that a third "lawbreaker" had been injured. A reporter with Hong Kong's RTHK radio said two police officers were also shot in a confrontation in a Uighur district of the city."
- China to sack officials who mishandle protests [Reuters] "Chinese officials who mishandle protests could be removed from their posts, state media said Monday, a week after demonstrations in the capital of Xinjiang degenerated into ethnic attacks. New regulations on accountability issued over the weekend hold officials responsible if misconduct leads to serious accidents, group protests or other serious incidents, state news agency Xinhua reported."
- Attacks on China's diplomatic missions well-orchestrated [China Daily] "Hurling stones, Molotov cocktails and burning Chinese national flags, supporters of the East Turkestan separatists started well-orchestrated and sometimes violent attacks on Chinese embassies and consulates in several countries soon after the riots occurred last Sunday in China's northwest city of Urumqi that killed 184 people."
- China Eastern to Take Over Shanghai Airlines [Wall Street Journal] "China Eastern Airlines Corp. will take over Shanghai Airlines Co. through a share swap in a deal valued at 8.9 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion), the two carriers said Monday. China Eastern will swap 1.3 of its Shanghai-listed A shares for each Shanghai Airlines share, the two carriers said in separate statements, confirming an earlier story reported by Dow Jones Newswires."
- 'Figuring out China's GDP is an art, rather than a science' [The Economic Times] "At a time when the world is still clawing its way back from a painful recession, China's projected GDP growth of 8% in 2009 is the cause of much envy. But that figure may actually be an understatement , says Adam Matthews, MD of JP Morgan AMC's Client Portfolio Management team. According to Matthews, if the growth were to be calculated on the basis of figures submitted by various provincial governments , it would be much higher. But China's central authorities prefer to release conservative figures. "In any case, given the vast grey component of China's economy, figuring out its GDP is an art rather than a science," he told TOI."
- China's Web Porn Arrests Include Tech-savvy Site Owners [PC World] "Chinese porn site owners who tried to hide from Web police by moving their illegal ventures to foreign servers are the latest victims in China's crackdown on online smut. The latest arrests or detainments go a step beyond past Chinese measures to combat online porn, which conservative officials see as an assault on cultural values. Pornography is illegal in China."
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"the standard fare in Chinese papers today on the recent Xinjiang developments"? Here is more in Chinese TV:
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Kadeer sworn statement before leaving China for USA:
---“I repeat again that no matter where I go, I am citizen of China. My country is my mother and father and Party is my savior forever. I was born and grew up after liberation so I belong to Party. No matter what kind of separatists of any nationalities, they are the enemy first to Xinjiang and secondly to the human kind of world and thirdly to the stability of China. This is very very clear to me while I am not making a show. For the unity and stability of all nationalities of our country, I am absolutely and forever against the slaughtering each other among lovely people and friends. I will talk this way ( abroad)”.