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- Protest at China TV tower [The Straits Times] "Demonstrators gathered outside a fire-gutted tower near the new China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing on Tuesday, protesting against what they called forced eviction, state press said. About 30 residents accused the state-run television station of trying to get them to move from the area to make way for the massive and nearly completed construction project, Xinhua news agency said. After about an hour, police persuaded the protesters to put away their banners and leave, the report said. "
- China Backs Off Latest Rio Tinto Claims [WSJ] "Chinese officials distanced the government from allegations on a state-backed Web site that employees of mining giant Rio Tinto PLC had used years of "deceit" to obtain state secrets that cost China's steel industry more than $100 billion — spotlighting the murky and often confusing way China handles such secrecy cases. The allegations, published over the weekend, had quickly gained widespread attention, as they appeared to represent the government ratcheting up pressure over the case of four Rio Tinto employees, including an Australian citizen, who were detained last month by the Shanghai State Security Bureau on vague accusations of using bribery to obtain secrets that harmed China's national interests."
- Another suspect dies in Kunming police custody [GoKunming] "A man being held in detention in Kunming died in a hospital on Saturday with no clear cause of death, according to a Xinhua report. According to a police spokesperson speaking to reporters on Sunday, 43-year-old Wang Shukun (王树坤) had been held in the Guandu District Detention Center since July 19 before being checked into a hospital by police on August 6. After undergoing emergency procedures to save his life, Wang died early Saturday, the spokesperson said."
- China using stickers to quell tension [USATODAY] "For anyone still upset about the ethnic riots that killed nearly 200 people here last month, Li Han says she has just the thing — yellow smiley-face stickers bearing the slogan, "A smile is the common language of all nationalities." Li, a petite, 22-year-old recent university graduate, is one of 1,800 volunteers recruited by the local Communist Party to hand out 100,000 of the stickers, organize public dances in parks and publicize the Chinese government's efforts to ease tensions. "We must make the mutual hatred subside," Li says. "We tell the public that without ethnic unity, nobody will get rich.""
- China should break up India: Chinese strategist [Rediff.com News] "Almost coinciding with the 13th round of Sino-Indian border talks, an article has appeared in China captioned 'If China takes a little action, the so-called Great Indian Federation can be broken up'. Interestingly, it has been reproduced in several other strategic and military Web sites of the country and by all means, targets the domestic audience… Claiming that Beijing's 'China-Centric' Asian strategy, provides for splitting India, the writer of the article, Zhan Lue, has found that New Delhi's corresponding 'India-Centric' policy in Asia, is in reality a 'Hindustan centric' one. Stating that on the other hand 'local centres' exist in several of the country's provinces (excepting for the UP and certain northern regions), Zhan Lue has felt that in the face of such local characteristics, the 'so-called' Indian nation cannot be considered as one having existed in history."
- A rape claim puts focus on Beijing's 'black jails' [AP] "The 20-year-old student spoke softly but firmly as she described how a dispute over grades led to her rape at an unofficial jail. She had been expelled from college because of poor exam scores, so she went to the capital city to petition the Chinese government to reinstate her. Thousands of Chinese travel to Beijing every year to air complaints ignored by local authorities, ranging from real estate scams to wrongful death cases. But shortly after the student arrived, she was picked up by police. She was delivered to a run-down hotel and dumped in a locked room filled with other detainees. There, a guard raped her."
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All bad and sad news on China all times, a country our expats seem forced to banish themselves in. Though we got used to the spoonfeed, can't we change something positive like "China's amazing new bullet train"? DOnt worry it's from CNN.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/03/news/international/china_high_speed_bullet_train.fortune/
wait a sec, so the yellow smiley goes like "please don't slaughter each other, if we stay in one piece there are higher goals we can pursue: money"
WTF?!?!
China is mad that Rio, the Chileans, Japanese and Aussies colluded on price and they weren't included. China is a foul and rotten country populated by filthy heathen expats.
http://tinyurl.com/nakh2l
oakwoods- just 10 seconds with the search function could have saved you from looking like a fool
http://shanghaiist.com/2009/07/29/beijing-shanghai_high-speed_railway.php