By Zhang Haishan and Shi Yu, Epoch Times Staff , Oct 7, 2008 - Virtually every eyeball in China was on the launch of Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou VII, just as the Chinese regime wanted. But among those eyeballs were many observant ones—maybe too observant for the Chinese Communist Party’s liking. Chinese state-run media called the Shenzhou VII [...]

By Zhao Zifa, Epoch Times Staff, Oct 8, 2008 - BEIJING—According to an undisclosed source, the Chinese Communist regime abducted China’s outspoken human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng with his wife, teenage daughter and young son a few months before the Beijing Olympic Games. Since then, they have been imprisoned at an undisclosed location in Daxing, south [...]

Press Release, Human Rights in China (HRIC), Oct. 8, 2008- Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that on October 8, 2008, around 1:00 P.M., hundreds of peasants organized a peaceful sit-in and blocked traffic at a major road in Sanjiang town (三江镇), Guangdong province. Witnesses reported that more than five hundred police officers, military police [...]

By D.J. McGuire, Via The Epochtimes, Oct. 6, 2008- The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is desperate to have the free world—especially the American people—believe that it, too, is battling radical Islamic terrorists. So when a report of a machete attack in Kashgar, East Turkestan (called “Xinjiang” by the cadres) made the news just before the Olympics, [...]

Reuters, Tue Oct 7, 2008- BEIJING (Reuters) - Nine Chinese hospital officials have been fired, including the president and a vice president, after eight newborn babies died from infection, state media said on Tuesday in the latest health scandal to hit the country. The No. 1 Hospital, affiliated with the medical school of Xi’an Jiaotong University in [...]

Leeshai Lemish, National Post, Canada, Oct. 7, 2008- The Olympics are over, but don’t look away from China just yet. The fates of thousands of ordinary Chinese arrested ahead of the Games hinge on what we do this autumn. For people like my Chinese-American friend Si Yang, these roundups have struck too close to home. In April, [...]

AFP, Oct.6, 2008- HONG KONG (AFP) — Chinese families have swarmed stores in Hong Kong selling foreign-made milk products as trust in China-made products plummets. Normally, mainland visitors to Hong Kong flood to luxury goods stores for handbags and jewellery during the national holiday. But China’s toxic milk scandal, which has left 53,000 children ill and four dead [...]

by Brian Grow, Chi-Chu Tschang, Cliff Edwards and Brian Burnsed, The Business Week, October 2, 2008- The American military faces a growing threat of potentially fatal equipment failure—and even foreign espionage—because of counterfeit computer components used in warplanes, ships, and communication networks. Fake microchips flow from unruly bazaars in rural China to dubious kitchen-table brokers in [...]

Human Rights Watch- (New York, October 2, 2008) – The Chinese government should immediately exonerate or grant medical parole to imprisoned human rights activist Hu Jia, Human Rights Watch said just ahead of the sixth-month anniversary of his flawed conviction. Human Rights Watch also called on the government to cease the harassment and surveillance of Hu’s [...]

Epoch Times Staff  Oct 1, 2008  - (Victor Chen/The Epoch Times) Celebrities, politicians, artists and CEOs alike were captivated by the Mid-Autumn Spectacular, a Chinese cultural show that just completed a five-day run at Toronto’s John Bassett Theatre. The force behind the Spectacular is the New York-based Divine Performing Arts, a group of leading artists who have been [...]