Editorial, Taiwan News, 2008-11-27 - Taiwan citizens should pay close attention to the “concluding observations” issued Saturday by the Geneva-based United Nations Committee Against Torture after its fourth periodic review of the People’s Republic of China’s implementation of the U.N. Covenant Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, especially in light of [...]

Saibal Dasgupta, TNN, via Times of India, 30 Nov 2008 - BEIJING: Mao Zedong abolished organised gambling after the Communist Party acquired power in 1949. Organised gambling on race horses returned to China on Sunday after a span of nearly 60 years since Mao declared gambling along with opium as a serious vice that had to [...]

By Li Zhen, Epoch Times Staff, Nov 28, 2008 -(cont’d) Member of the European Parliament Helga Truepel met with renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Zheng Enchong at his place of residence in Shanghai on November 25. The CCP Should be Held Responsible for the Tibet Issue When Truepel told Zheng that the European Parliament was in support of [...]

By Li Zhen, Epoch Times Staff, Nov 28, 2008 - Member of the European Parliament Helga Truepel met with renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Zheng Enchong at his place of residence in Shanghai on November 25. Mrs. Helga Truepel, German member of the European Parliament, was also a member of the Green Party. During their two-hour meeting, [...]

Reporters Without Borders, 25 November 2008- Reporters Without Borders deplores the behaviour of the Chinese police in preventing European parliament member Helga Trüpel from visiting Zeng Jinyan, the wife of jailed dissident Hu Jia, in her Beijing apartment building today. Foreign journalists who wanted to visit Zeng were also turned back. Hu Jia is this year’s winner [...]

By Jonathan Landreth, via Reuters, Sat Nov 29, 2008 - BANGKOK, Thailand (Hollywood Reporter) - A Belgian TV journalist and his crew were assaulted while reporting on AIDS in Central China. The incident underscores the ongoing difficulties in bringing a new media openness to the provinces under an official change in policy that the government adopted around [...]

Human Rights in China, November 24, 2008- Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that, on November 21, 2008, authorities in Beijing’s Xicheng District used a bulldozer to demolish the home of rights defense activist Ni Yulan (倪玉兰), who has been in detention since April 2008 without a trial. Her husband, Dong Jiqin (董继勤),has been made homeless [...]

By Gu Xiaohua, Epoch Times Staff, Nov 28, 2008 - To cover-up a death caused by a forced demolition, police went to extremes to abscond with the victim’s corpse from the family in the hospital’s parking lot in eastern China’s Yantai City, Shandong Province. Currently, relatives do not know the whereabouts of the victim’s body. The victim’s [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, November 30, 2008 - CHINA has drawn worldwide condemnation after executing a scientist accused of passing information to Taiwan. Wo Weihan, a 59-year-old medical scientist, was executed on Friday, said his daughter Ran Chen, who is married to an American. “My father was put to death, so was our hope in the Chinese [...]

AFP, Nov. 27, 2008- BEIJING (AFP) — China’s unprecedented decision to cancel a summit with the European Union over Tibet shows an increasing willingness for Beijing to flex its ever-strengthening global muscle, analysts said Thursday. The China-EU summit, due to take place on Monday in France, was called off at the last minute by the Asian giant, [...]