By Melinda Liu | NEWSWEEK

Published Nov 15, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Nov 24, 2008

Beijing is pumping more than half a trillion dollars into the Chinese economy in order to stave off unrest. It has good reason to worry. ( Photo: James Whitlow Delano / Redux for Newsweek/Pedestrians at Beijing’s bell tower on [...]

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Tuesday, 28 October 2008
By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have signed a global code of conduct promising to offer better protection for online free speech and against official intrusion.
The Global Network Initiative follows criticism that companies were assisting governments in countries like China to censor the Internet.
The guidelines seek to [...]

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New York Times October 23, 2008
Chinese Activist Wins Rights Prize
By JIM YARDLEY
(Chinese civil rights advocate Hu Jia. Bill Austin/European Pressphoto Agency)
BEIJING — Hu Jia, a soft-spoken, bespectacled advocate for democracy and human rights in China, was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe’s most prestigious human rights prize, on Thursday. The award was [...]

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China Aid Association October 3, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Congressional letter spearheaded by leadership of the 62-member U.S.-China Working Group (USCWG) was sent to China’s Ambassador to the U.S., Zhou Wenzhong, voicing concerns over reports of a post-Olympic crackdown by the Chinese government planned for October.
ChinaAid released a report in August regarding the crackdown after [...]

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By John Markoff
International Herald Tribune
Thursday, October 2, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO: A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
The system tracks text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese [...]

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By Jim Yardley
Published: September 17, 2008 by International Herald Tribune
BEIJING: At Children’s Hospital on the east side of Beijing, harried nurses spent Wednesday behind a small wooden desk, registering infants in a rapidly filling logbook. Anxious parents, fearing they might have unwittingly fed their infants with tainted baby formula, waited for hours to determine if [...]

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BBC News 09-16-2008
China’s health ministry says the number of babies sickened by contaminated milk powder could rise further.
Two babies died and over 1,200 became ill after drinking the milk, which was spiked with the chemical melamine.
State media quoted the ministry as saying medical agencies were ready for a “possibly rising” number of cases.
Hundreds of angry [...]

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