kellyramsey + china   48

Amid Brickbats From China’s Government, Tibetans Will Ponder a New Strategy (Edward Wong, New York Times)
"Robbie Barnett, a Tibet scholar at Columbia University, said the meeting appeared to be a forum in which the Dalai Lama would allow his more radical and frustrated compatriots to air their opinions but in which he would also try to consolidate support for a moderate, nonviolent approach."
social-movements  Tibet  China 
november 2008 by kellyramsey
Young Tibetans call for civil unrest in split from Dalai Lama (Amrit Dhillon, Telegraph)
"Exiled Tibetans from around the world are gathering in Dharmsala for a six-day meeting, called by the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists to discuss the future of the movement. "
social-movements  Tibet  China 
november 2008 by kellyramsey
Students Quarantined in University As Epidemic Unfolds (Annalee Newitz, IO9)
"Apparently there's been an outbreak of cholera, and the local officials dealt with it Resident Evil style: Lock everybody in, give them no information, and see if they survive. But one woman student has been blogging about the ongoing ordeal, posting pictures and giving status updates several times a day."
police-state  China 
november 2008 by kellyramsey
Google defiant over censorship in China (David Smith, Observer)
"At the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, starting tomorrow, the firm will insist its presence in China does more good than harm by getting more information to more people."
information-hegemonies  censorship  China 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Video: BBC hidden cam shows China selling prisoners' organs (Raw Story)
"An undercover investigation by BBC News finds that China has a flourishing trade of organs from executed prisoners. China is becoming the destination of choice for rich foreigners in need of organ transplants."
China  police-state  mass-killing 
september 2006 by kellyramsey
A New, Computer-Generated Voice (Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times)
China struggles with censorship and the suppression of online dissent. Meanwhile, various pissants in the West fret about not having 24-7 broadband access to free non-DRMed music and video.
censorship  police-state  China  unrest 
september 2006 by kellyramsey
On the Roof of Peru, Omens in the Ice (Doug Struck, Washington Post)
"Since Thompson's first reports, he and others have confirmed a rapid recession of glaciers worldwide. Snows on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro... will be gone within 14 years... Glaciers in the Alps, the Himalayas and throughout the Andes are also shrinking,"
global-warming  Peru  Nepal  China  India 
july 2006 by kellyramsey
Pollution fuelling social unrest in China | Reuters
"China's environment chief has made a rare official admission that serious water and air pollution is fuelling social tension, protests and riots."
China  unrest 
april 2006 by kellyramsey
Farmers in China Face Great Wall | LA Times
"Uneducated farmers, once considered the backbone of the Communist Party, are facing off in growing numbers against well-funded local officials versed in divide-and-conquer tactics, intimidation and backroom dealing."
China  unrest 
april 2006 by kellyramsey
China 'selling prisoners' organs' | BBC News
"The British Transplantation Society says an accumulating weight of evidence suggests the organs of thousands of executed prisoners in China are being removed for transplants without consent."
China  police-state  mass-killing 
april 2006 by kellyramsey
China Protest Claims 800 Hunger Strikers | Telegraph
Claims *to have participating*, not claims *to have caused the untimely ends of*
China  unrest 
february 2006 by kellyramsey
More Than 115,000 Chinese Disciplined | Washington Post
"The Chinese Communist Party disciplined more than 115,000 members for corruption and related violations last year and turned more than 15,000 of them over to the courts for prosecution, the government reported Tuesday."
China  unrest 
february 2006 by kellyramsey

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