Results tagged “gaozhisheng”

• A shuttlecock fight of epic proportion [theage.com.au] "Emerging superpower China annoyed neighbouring Malaysia this week as an unprecedented Chinese domination of badminton's showpiece event — the All-England Championships — led to heated claims of match-fixing."
• Rumor: Focus Media Executives In China May All Resign [Digital Marketing Inner Circle] "In what is some hot gossip circulating in the digital marketing industry in Beijing is that former Focus Media CEO Tan Zhi will collectively resign with the other Focus Media executives once the executive adjustment plan post the merger of some of its businesses with Sina.com."
• Chinese Officials Prohibit Blizzard's Lich King Expansion [Life from Wired.com] "Chinese World of Warcraft fans will have to wait even longer to enjoy the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, as the Chinese government has twice rejected applications for its release."

Fresh off the press: A video of the secret police who watched over AIDS, environmental and democracy activist Hu Jia (胡嘉) day and night while they were under house arrest from July last year to March this year has just been released (h/t to CDT).

Zhu said that after 10 minutes of treatment Bai's lung cancer had been cured and he would recover quickly.

Shanghaiist recently saw this RFA report (in Chinese, and not normally accessible within China) about the continuing struggles of the property rights protesters and hunger strikers in Shanghai. It says that on February 17 five protesters left Shanghai for Beijing, where they planned to continue their housing related petitions. On the 24th, they were caught and forcibly taken back to Shanghai, where they have been held in administrative detention since. Among them was Liu Xinjuan, who was sent to the Minhang district mental asylum shortly after arriving back in Shanghai. According to someone the RFA interviewed, Liu is actually not crazy, despite what seems to be patent evidence to the contrary: her actions reveal a (delusional) belief that social justice and political liberties exist in China.

Shanghaiist found this report from Human Rights in China (to state the obvious, not accessible within China) about hunger strikers in Shanghai. Here are the first few paragraphs:

Members of the Fangzhou Congregation, a house church in Beijing's Chaoyang district (they gather in apartments or other non-official sites to meet and worship) received some surprise visits last Sunday afternoon, January 15. At around 4:30 pm, two uniformed Beijing police officers and two plainclothes police (well, no one knows if they were really police) came in and said that they had to do some investigation of this congregation. The police accused the church of “disturbing the peace" (扰民）and illegal assembly, owing to the fact that the place where they had held the Sunday services had not been officially sanctioned. The usual type melee ensued, with accusations flying back and forth and tugs of war with video cameras. Why all the brouhaha over some small, insignificant house church? Because of the people in it, who are all notorious troublemakers. Yu Jie is an outspoken writer and intellectual that founded China's first PEN association, a pro-freedom of expression writer's group. Gao Zhisheng is a lawyer, and Wikipedia has this to say about him: