kellyramsey + china 48
Amid Brickbats From China’s Government, Tibetans Will Ponder a New Strategy (Edward Wong, New York Times)
november 2008 by kellyramsey
"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)
november 2008 by kellyramsey
"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)
november 2008 by kellyramsey
"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)
october 2006 by kellyramsey
"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)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"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)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
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)
july 2006 by kellyramsey
"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
april 2006 by kellyramsey
"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
april 2006 by kellyramsey
"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
april 2006 by kellyramsey
"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
More Sinister Than A Wicker Basket | Warrenellis.com
april 2006 by kellyramsey
I knew it! Skeleton farms.
China
police-state
mass-killing
april 2006 by kellyramsey
Japan's Rich Buy Organs from Executed Chinese Prisoners | Independent
march 2006 by kellyramsey
next up: skeleton farms
China
police-state
mass-killing
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Concentration Camp for Falun Gong Disclosed; Prisoners Killed for Organ Harvesting | Indymedia Ireland
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Any confirmation from other than IMC and Falun Gong? No, the Epoch Times doesn't count.
China
police-state
mass-killing
march 2006 by kellyramsey
China Protest Claims 800 Hunger Strikers | Telegraph
february 2006 by kellyramsey
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
february 2006 by kellyramsey
"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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