Extra! Extra! Human trafficking lessons, censorship and currency issues

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  • A rural community in southwestern China is teaching its women how to avoid becoming trafficked. But, while the idea is good, the execution makes trafficking seem like a problem of a stranger randomly attacking you on the street, rather than more common methods: people offering jobs, a new "friend," someone in a private place where kicking and screaming would be ineffective. [Change.org]
  • While China is set to be a superpower on par with the United States, it's leaders seem - at least for now - to prefer taking the backseat rather than the responsibility. [Time]
  • The media restrictions on reporting the Google story seem to signify that leaders are worried about the public's views on internet censorship. I'm not sure I'm completely convinced. [WSJ]
  • Hukou is a word you've been hearing a lot lately in complaints to the NPC. The biggest victims of this decades old registration system: migrant children. [Guardian]
  • The U.S. has been asking Beijing to ease currency controls again... which, surprisingly, Beijing has not enjoyed. [Google]
  • Those artists who protested the razing of 008, a studio district in Beijing, have now received one million dollars in compensation from developers, their spokeswoman has said. It seems the district is still getting razed though. [AFP]
  • So even though nobody actually KNOWS where Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most prominent human rights lawyers, is since his disappearance right after meeting police last year... he's been convicted of subversion. [Wall Street Journal]
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By Elaine Chow in on March 16, 2010 10:00 PM Comment 0 Likes Likes

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