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Three Gorges Dam at Risk

Posted 07.27.10

The weekend’s torrential rains are threatening Three Gorges Dam on the Yagntze river. The Chinese government today announced that the waters upstream of the dam will reach the maximum level in the next 24 hours and for the past two days the authorities have been pumping as much water as possible from the basin ahead of the flood. According to experts, even stronger rains will hit southern China in the coming days.

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From -Asia News

Woman Activist Tortured

Posted 07.27.10

China's brutal physical torture and attack has escalated hugely recently. Earlier, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng went through 50 days torture that his genital was pierced and his body tortured to the extent that could not be recognized any more. Zhao Xin was attacked that he nearly lost his leg. Also, human rights lawyers, Li Heping, Teng Biao were both kidnapped and physically beaten severely.

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From -China Aid Association

What If China Had Bought Newsweek?

Posted 06.29.10

The news that bidders for Newsweek included China’s Southern Media Group—a bid that was rejected—has left all sides a bit insulted. For Newsweek, the prospect of being bought by a company in the world’s No. 2 jailer of journalists (Iran is number one) appears to have been too grim to take seriously. For American journalists generally, the implication that our industry is edging toward a fire sale was not especially welcome.

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From -The New Yorker: Evan Osnos

Fostering China’s Taste for Nuts

Posted 06.29.10

How might the Chinese best like to snack on their almonds? Pickled with chili peppers? Wrapped in seaweed like sushi? Or perhaps mixed with donkey hide glue, a substance prized in traditional Chinese medicine? Those offbeat ideas were among the winners in a student recipe contest sponsored in China by California’s almond industry, which is seeing powerful demand for its products from a country that has begun gobbling up as many American walnuts, pecans and almonds as it can get.

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From -The New York Times

House Arrest for Lawyers

Posted 06.18.10

A group of dissidents and rights lawyers in Beijing have been placed under house arrest or harassed for planning a get-together at a homeless activist's tent yesterday. The dissidents and lawyers last night planned to visit human rights activist Ni Yulan , a former lawyer who was left homeless after a forced eviction, as a gesture of support and to mark the Dragon Boat festival. The plan attracted support after being publicised on Twitter, a popular social networking site that has been blocked on the mainland but is still used by defiant internet users able to circumvent the censorship. The activists believed the Twitter postings alerted the police and prompted the crackdown.

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From -China Aid Association