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February 2005



Journalist Case File: Wang Jinbo

Monday, 28 February 2005 5:10 P GMT+09
Name: Wang JinboAgency: FreelanceDate Imprisoned: 13 December 2001Charge: Incitement, SubversionSentence: 4 yearsWang is an essayist and freelance journalist who posted works through the internet. Wang was in contact with an unknown number of oversea

The Rabbit Hole: Firework Safety, What's That?

Saturday, 26 February 2005 2:38 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: Firework Safety, What's that?  With Spring Festival, and China’s peak period for firework related emasculations over, it is probably a good time for me to reflect on the Chinese fireworks culture.People in China like firewor

Journalist Case File: Lu Xinhua

Thursday, 24 February 2005 2:10 P GMT+09
Name: Lu XinhuaAgency: FreelanceDate Imprisoned: 30 December 2001Charge: Inciting Incitement, SubversionSentence: 4 YearsLu was a freelance writer who was detained while living in the city of Wuhan in Hubei Province. His detention came soon after art

If tropical timber were people, China would be raping Nanking once a month

Wednesday, 23 February 2005 11:27 A GMT+09
The title may sound dramatic, but to Indonesian environmentalists, China's timber industry is the new Imperial Japan, and to the island of New Guinea, the forests of Papua province are Nanking.Regionally, Japan is well known in Asia both for its love

Lantern Festival: China

Wednesday, 23 February 2005 9:00 A GMT+09
元宵節Lantern Festival: China

Journalist Case File: Zhang Ji

Tuesday, 22 February 2005 3:37 P GMT+09
Name: Zhang JiAgency: FreelanceDate Imprisoned: 8 November 1999Charge: IncitementSentence: UncorroboratedZhang was a student at Heilongjiang Province’s Qiqihar University. He was detained in October 1999 a nationwide crackdown on the banned FLG med

Journalist Case File: Gao Qinrong

Monday, 21 February 2005 9:23 A GMT+09
Name: Gao Qinrong Agency: XinhuaDate Imprisoned: 1998Charge: Bribery, Embezzlement, Organized ProstitutionSentence: 12 YearsGao is a former reporter for Xinhua, China’s state media group. Early in 1998, Gao reported on a high level corruption scand

Bread winners Versus Rice Growers: Are China’s Peasants About to Revolt?

Sunday, 20 February 2005 12:37 P GMT+09
While China’s ‘bulletin board warriors’, a new generation of urban based middle class Chinese youths with food in their stomachs, money in their pockets, and time on their hands, are busy seeding the internet with calls for the Chinese people t

Journalist Case File: Chen Renjie

Saturday, 19 February 2005 4:35 P GMT+09
Name: Chen RenjieAgency: 自由报 (The Freedom Report)Date Imprisoned: July 1983Charge: Incitement, Spying for TaiwanSentence: LifeDuring the latter half of 1982, Chen Renjie, along with two colleagues Chen Biling and Lin Youping wrote and published

Journalist Case File: Chen Renjie

Saturday, 19 February 2005 4:31 P GMT+09
Name: Chen RenjieAgency: 自由报 (The Freedom Report)Date Imprisoned: July 1983Charge: Incitement, Spying for TaiwanSentence: LifeDuring the latter half of 1982, Chen Renjie, along with two colleagues Chen Biling and Lin Youping wrote and published

The Rabbit hole: Chinese Roads - Part 4, Road Safety Comrade

Saturday, 19 February 2005 8:59 A GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: Chinese Roads Part 4, Road Safety Comrade     During the late 1990s the Chinese government become worried by

Death to Japan, and America, and Sweden and ….: Freedom of speech is alive and well for Chinese nationalists

Friday, 18 February 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
Many people tend to think of China as a restricted nation where the government suppresses or controls all forms of speech and expression, and where public protests are prohibited, yet earlier this week Beijing saw a rare public demonstration. Rarer s

Journalist Case File: Chen Yanbin

Friday, 18 February 2005 5:10 P GMT+09
Name: Chen YanbinAgency: 铁流 (The Iron Current/Flow)Date Imprisoned: September 1990 Charge: Incitement, SeditionSentence: 15 Years, plus 4 years removal of political rightsChen and his classmate Zhang Yafei were detained in 1990 and charged with a

Changing Tones: CIA report warns of “Reds Under The Beds”

Thursday, 17 February 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
After several years of relatively placid reporting on China in the wake of 9/11, the latest annual report by CIA, America’s oft criticized spy agency, has changed its tone on Sino-US relations, warning that the Us should pay more attention to devel

Mining Disaster? What mining Disaster?

Thursday, 17 February 2005 7:58 P GMT+09
Despite promises by the government that it is committed to a path of press freedoms, and assurances, mostly in the wake of the SARs epidemic, that it would open up and the flow of information and not hinder independent media reports, state officials

800 Million and dropping: China’s forgotten Peasants

Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:27 P GMT+09
Unlike Europe and America, where many farmers are working land that their families have cultivated for generations, who hold a great attachment to their land and their way of life; and who are backed up by substantial government subsidies, more and m

Down the Rabbit Hole: Chinese Roads - Part 3

Tuesday, 15 February 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: Chinese Roads - Part 3     Despite the morbidity of it, today’s installation of The Rabbit Hole is dedicate

Journalist Case File: Lin Youping

Tuesday, 15 February 2005 2:05 P GMT+09
Name: Lin YoupingAgency: 自由报 (The Freedom Report)Date Imprisoned: July 1983Charge: Incitement, Spying for TaiwanSentence: Death (later commuted)During the latter half of 1982, Lin, along with two colleagues Chen Biling and Chen Renjie wrote and

Tokyo to seek dialog over ending war reparations to China

Monday, 14 February 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
Amid a series of tense political standoffs, but booming economic cooperation, the Japanese government has indicated that it is about to seek direct talks with Beijing to draw the Japan’s provision of Official Development Aid to China to an amicable

The Rabbit Hole: Chinese Roads - Part 2

Saturday, 12 February 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: Chinese Roads - Part 2     As many people will know, China’s roads are a little different from their own,

Journalist Case File: Yue Tianxiang

Friday, 11 February 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
Name: Yue TianxiangAgency: 中国工人观察 (Chinese Workers’ Observer/Monitor)Date Imprisoned: 1999Charge: SubversionSentence: 10 YearsYue is a workers rights activist and a former journalist with 中国工人观察 (Chinese Workers’ Observer/

The Rabbit Hole: Chinese Roads - Part 1

Friday, 11 February 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: Chinese Roads - Part 1     As the topic of Chinese roads is a large topic indeed, I now present to you part 1

Journalist Case File: Liu Shui

Wednesday, 9 February 2005 2:08 P GMT+09
Name: Liu ShuiAgency: 南方都市报 (Southern Metropolitan Report), 深圳晚报报 (Shenzhen Evening Report) Date Imprisoned: 2 May 2004Charge: SolicitingSentence: 2 yearsIn May 2004, Liu was detained and held overnight by police in Shenzhen on ch

Disclosure of US-Nazi collaboration may open old wounds for China.

Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:40 A GMT+09
Under mounting pressure from Congress, the CIA, America’s much maligned intelligence service, has agreed, in principle, to hand over records of post war US-Nazi collaboration that it had previously been deemed outside the scope of the 1998 Nazi War

Spring Festival/New Year: China

Wednesday, 9 February 2005 9:00 A GMT+09
Spring Festival/New Year: China