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Jul 18, 2010	China’s Censors Rein in ‘Vulgar’ Reality TV Show QUOTE: The shows [broadcasted on Chinese television] are now forbidden to “hype up marginal issues, show the ugly side of things, or overly depressing, dark or decadent topics,” according to the directive. Instead, the shows have to “maintain core Socialist values.”	New York Times
Jun 09, 2010	Views of North Korea Show How a Policy Spread Misery QUOTE: North Koreans are used to struggle and heartbreak. But the Nov. 30 currency devaluation, apparently an attempt to prop up a foundering state-run economy, was for some the worst disaster since a famine that killed hundreds of thousands in the mid-1990s.	New York Times
Jun 03, 2010	In Leaked Lecture, Details of China’s News Cleanups QUOTE: The content of Mr. Xia’s speech, transcribed and posted online by someone who attended the May 15 lecture at Tianjin Foreign Studies University, has become something of a sensation in recent days, providing the Chinese a rare insight into how their news is stage-managed for mass consumption.	New York Times
May 26, 2010	Electronics Maker Promises Review After Suicides QUOTE: “Foxconn’s production line system is designed so well that no worker will rest even one second during work; they make sure you’re always busy for every second,” says Li Qiang, executive director of the China Labor Watch, a New York-based labor rights group. “Foxconn only values the enterprise benefits but totally ignores the social benefits.” Those claims have been bolstered in recent weeks by some of China’s state-run newspapers, which have published a series of sensational reports about the suicides, alongside exposés detailing what they claim are the harsh conditions inside Foxconn factories.	New York Times
May 26, 2010	Trampled in a Land Rush, Chinese Resist QUOTE: Protests like those in Laogucheng — including self-immolations and deadly standoffs — have forced officials to at least consider measures to make it harder to seize property and turn it over to developers without fully compensating those who live on it or use it. Effective confiscation of land nominally owned by the state, but farmed or lived on by the poor, has been a major source of unrest for the past two decades.	New York Times
May 23, 2010	Korean Tensions Grow as South Curbs Trade to North QUOTE: Tensions escalated sharply Monday on the Korean peninsula, as South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said that his nation would cut nearly all trade with North Korea, deny North Korean merchant ships use of South Korean sea lanes and ask the United Nations Security Council to punish the North for what he called the deliberate sinking of a South Korean warship two months ago.	New York Times
Apr 30, 2010	Chinese Rules Said to Threaten Proprietary Information QUOTE: China is expected to issue regulations on Saturday requiring technology companies to disclose proprietary information like data-encryption keys and underlying software code to sell a range of security-related digital technology products to government agencies...	New York Times
Apr 27, 2010	China Moves to Tighten Data Controls QUOTE: China is on the verge of requiring telecommunications companies and Internet service providers to halt and report leaks of what the government deems to be state secrets, the latest in a series of moves intended to strengthen the government’s control over private communications.	New York Times
Nov 15, 2009	Racial rethinking as Obama visits: Increasing diversity, born out of boom, forces Chinese to confront old prejudices QUOTE: As the country gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S. president, whose first official visit here starts Sunday, the Chinese are confronting their attitudes toward race, including some deeply held prejudices about black people.	Washington Post
Oct 08, 2009	Chinese history textbooks: The fragility of truth QUOTE: SCHOOL textbooks in China have a habit of bending the truth, to suit Communist Party dogma or to reinforce moral messages. Rarely does anyone challenge them. Exams require rote learning, and children are not encouraged to question received wisdom.	Economist
Sep 19, 2009	Some Chinese parents say their babies were stolen for adoption QUOTE: [in China] some parents are beginning to come forward to tell harrowing stories of babies who were taken away by coercion, fraud or kidnapping -- sometimes by government officials who covered their tracks by pretending that the babies had been abandoned.	Los Angeles Times
Sep 04, 2009	Ethics scrutiny needed for Chinese–European projects: Panel calls for joint advisory body to monitor research. QUOTE: Biomedical research collaborations between Europe and China need greater ethical oversight to combat unregulated stem-cell therapies and prevent the exploitation of clinical-trial participants.	Nature
Aug 21, 2009	In South Korea, Freed U.S. Journalists Come Under Harsh Criticism QUOTE: in South Korea, human rights advocates, bloggers and Christian pastors are accusing them [the two freed U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, freed from North Korea] of needlessly endangering the very people they tried to cover: North Korean refugees and the activists who help them.	New York Times
Aug 20, 2009	Lead Sickens 1,300 Children in China QUOTE: Lead pollution from a newly opened and unlicensed manganese smelter has poisoned more than 1,300 children in southeastern China’s Hunan Province...	New York Times
Aug 04, 2009	China snares NGOs with foreign funding: With little help at home, nonprofits often rely on outside aid. But the government may be using tax, licensing laws to shut them down. QUOTE: The harassment of these and other foreign-funded NGOs in Beijing has raised fears of a Russian-style squeeze on civil society.	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 03, 2009	Did China's Nuclear Tests Kill Thousands and Doom Future Generations? QUOTE: Three decades on, [Enver] Tohti, now a medical doctor, is launching an investigation into the toll still being taken—and one that the Chinese government steadfastly refuses to acknowledge. A few hundred thousand people may have died as a result of radiation from at least 40 nuclear explosions carried out between 1964 and 1996 at the Lop Nur site in Xinjiang...	Scientific American
Jul 30, 2009	Hepatitis Group Is Harassed in China QUOTE: The raid on Mr. Lu’s [Jun] organization, the Yi Ren Ping Center, comes at a precarious time for China’s nongovernmental organizations, many of which operate in a kind of legal gray zone.	New York Times
Jul 29, 2009	Chinese Workers Say Illness Is Real, Not Hysteria QUOTE: As soon as the Jilin Connell Chemical Plant started production this spring, local hospitals began receiving stricken workers from the acrylic yarn factory 100 yards downwind from Connell’s exhaust stacks. A clear case of chemical contamination? Not so, say Chinese health officials who contend that the episode is a communal outbreak of psychogenic illness, also called mass hysteria.	New York Times
Jul 23, 2009	Chinese-American Children Sent to Live With Kin Abroad Face a Tough Return QUOTE: The phenomenon of American-born children who spend their infancy in China has been known for years to social workers, who say it is widespread and worrying....Their repeatedly disrupted attachments to family members “could potentially add up to a mental health crisis for some immigrant communities,” Dr. Bohr wrote in an article in May in The Infant Mental Health Journal.	New York Times
Jul 17, 2009	China reins in more rights activists by seizing computers QUOTE: In another sign of the Chinese authorities clamping down on civil rights activists, on Friday officials confiscated the computers of lawyers working on last year's tainted milk scandal.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 15, 2009	Labor issues in China continue to plague Apple and others QUOTE: A new investigation into Chinese labor law disputes reveals that Apple still isn't immune to associations with manufacturing partners that aren't in compliance with laws designed to improve labor conditions for Chinese workers.	Ars Technica
Jul 14, 2009	Is China spying on Uighurs abroad? QUOTE: Analysts and Uighur exiles say that China has an intelligence network aimed at monitoring developments in the Uighur diaspora and trying to sow dissension within and among Uighur groups. There is also wide agreement that Uighur operatives involved in the network are often coerced into it by the Chinese authorities.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 13, 2009	China Broadens Investigation of Steel Industry QUOTE: The Chinese authorities have detained or questioned at least seven Chinese steel industry executives in a broadening corruption investigation...	New York Times
Jul 11, 2009	China's flood of fortune seekers unsettles Xinjiang: Opportunities found by one group -- the Han -- and lost by another -- the Uighurs -- are behind the violence in China's far west. QUOTE: The Uighurs, a Turkic people whose majority here [Xinjiang] has been slipping away, complain that the outsiders are gobbling up the best jobs. Many employers here refuse to hire Uighurs for even the most menial positions, whether picking cotton or working in mines.	Los Angeles Times
Jul 07, 2009	New Ethnic Violence Flares in China QUOTE: The continuing violence underscored the extent of the mistrust between Uighurs and Han Chinese and how close the city [Urumqi] remains to another major bloody clash.	Washington Post
Jun 23, 2009	As China Stirs Economy, Some See Protectionism QUOTE: the Chinese government has quietly started adopting policies aimed at encouraging exports while curbing imports, even though China, as one of the world’s largest exporters, has aggressively criticized protectionism in other countries.	New York Times
Jun 23, 2009	U.S. Slams China on Exports QUOTE: The U.S. and the European Union on June 23 formally accused China of illegally hampering exports of raw materials in order to benefit its own manufacturers....U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said he has asked the World Trade Organization to step in and resolve the issue after two years of unsuccessful U.S. attempts to persuade China to "lift these unfair trade restrictions" on nine raw materials used in the making of steel, aluminum, and chemicals."	BusinessWeek
Jun 14, 2009	Gay Festival in China Pushes Official Boundaries (Shanghai Journal) QUOTE: In the 12 years since homosexuality was decriminalized in China, there has been an unmistakable blossoming of gay life, even if largely underground. But official tolerance has its limits.	New York Times
Jun 10, 2009	N. Korean Women Who Flee to China Suffer in Stateless Limbo: Many Are Sold Into Marriage QUOTE: North Korea regards them [North Korean women] as criminals for leaving. China refuses to recognize them as refugees, sending many back to face interrogation, hard labor and sometimes torture.	Washington Post
May 24, 2009	Spain's Judges Cross Borders in Human Rights Cases: U.S. Officials Among Targets QUOTE: The judges have opened the cases by invoking a legal principle known as universal jurisdiction, which under Spanish law gives them the right to investigate serious human rights crimes anywhere in the world, even if there is no Spanish connection. International-law advocates have called the judges heroes for daring to hold the world's superpowers accountable.	Washington Post
May 05, 2009	For Chinese parents, few answers on quake deaths one year later: Officials have intimidated citizens trying to find out why so many schools collapsed or to compile a list of all the children killed. QUOTE: Allegations [all related to Chinese earthquake] of shoddy building practices and corruption go unanswered; the dead remain officially unnamed, despite private efforts to identify them; parents who have pressed their right to know have been beaten and imprisoned.	Christian Science Monitor
Apr 10, 2009	Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines QUOTE: Work-safety officials in Beijing complain that even more than in other industries, death tolls from accidents at coal mines are often ratcheted down or not reported at all.	New York Times
Mar 23, 2009	China targets an academic culture of cut-and-paste: After a scandal highlighting rampant plagiarism, the government tries to rein it in – and a new generation of teachers trained abroad could help. QUOTE: Plagiarism and sheer invention have flourished in Chinese academic circles, adds Stephen Stearns, a Yale University professor...	Christian Science Monitor
Jan 19, 2009	Drug Making’s Move Abroad Stirs Concerns QUOTE: experts and lawmakers are growing more and more concerned that the nation is far too reliant on medicine from abroad... “The lack of regulation around outsourcing is a blind spot that leaves room for supply disruptions, counterfeit medicines, even bioterrorism,” said Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio...	New York Times
Dec 24, 2008	China's Capital Cases Still Secret, Arbitrary QUOTE: Starting in 2007, China began for the first time in more than two decades to require a final review of every capital case by the Supreme People's Court. The hope was to reduce the number of executions and bring some consistency to a process that had been handled unevenly by lower courts....But in a largely closed legal system directed by party committees, the changes have not been as far-reaching as the statistics suggest, and consistency remains a distant goal.	Washington Post
Dec 20, 2008	Madoff Scheme Kept Rippling Outward, Across Borders QUOTE: whatever else Mr. Madoff’s game was, it was certainly this: The first worldwide Ponzi scheme — a fraud that lasted longer, reached wider and cut deeper than any similar scheme in history, entirely eclipsing the puny regional ambitions of Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler who gave his name to the scheme nearly a century ago.	New York Times
Nov 28, 2008	Baidu Vows to Overhaul After Search Scandal QUOTE: China's Internet search leader Baidu said on Friday it will overhaul operations after state media said it allowed unlicensed medical services to buy high search rankings to win more customers.	PC Magazine
Nov 28, 2008	Google’s Gatekeepers QUOTE: As more and more speech migrates online, to blogs and social-networking sites and the like, the ultimate power to decide who has an opportunity to be heard, and what we may say, lies increasingly with Internet service providers, search engines and other Internet companies like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and even eBay....some House Democrats and Republicans have introduced a bipartisan bill called the Global Online Freedom Act, which would require that Internet companies disclose to a newly created office in the State Department all material filtered in response to demands by foreign governments.	New York Times
Nov 08, 2008	Bush’s seven deadly environmental sins: How Bush made a mockery of the nation’s environmental laws and values -- and what Obama must do to get us back on track. QUOTE: It hardly bears repeating that George W. Bush's record on the environment makes his own father look like Teddy Roosevelt by comparison. By taking environmental policymaking away from scientists, and turning it over to industry cronies, Bush has made a mockery of the nation's environmental laws and values.	Salon
Nov 08, 2008	China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites QUOTE: China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked.	TorrentFreak
Oct 20, 2008	Ask Pablo: The presidential candidates keep talking about the evils of China's new coal plants and "clean coal technology" as a savior. What's the real story? QUOTE: So does the solution really lie in "clean coal technology," as both presidential campaigns keep saying? As nice as it sounds, clean coal is an oxymoron of epic proportions, promoted by the coal industry, a sort of Orwellian doublespeak meant to introduce the notion that coal can be environmentally friendly.	Salon
Oct 06, 2008	China's Eye on Web Chatter ABSTRACT: In China, you can't search for anything you want on popular search engines like Yahoo! or Google. The government has set filters on words that it's leaders think may jeopardize the political state of China. In addition to this search limitation movement, there has been a surveillance scheme employed. In fact, the United States has assisted in the scheme.	Technology Review
Oct 03, 2008	Skype: We didn't know about security issues QUOTE: ...Josh Silverman, Skype's president, explained he did not realize that TOM-Skype, Skype's partner in China, was logging and storing users' instant messages that were deemed offensive by the Chinese government. He said the company knew that instant-messaging chats were monitored by the government...	CNET
Oct 01, 2008	Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China QUOTE: A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.	New York Times
Sep 02, 2008	Injections of Hope: Doctors Promote Offshore Stemcell Shots, but Some Patients Cry Foul QUOTE: Patients dart across the border to Mexico or jet to the Caribbean, India, China and elsewhere for injections of stem cells from embryos, fetuses, umbilical cords and the patients' own fat, blood and bone marrow. These shots would be illegal in the United States, where the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any such treatments.	Washington Post
Aug 20, 2008	Too Old and Frail to Re-educate? Not in Chinan’ in China QUOTE: ...the two women, former neighbors, were seeking to draw attention to a government-backed real estate deal that promised to give them apartments in the new development that replaced their homes not far from Tiananmen Square.... the women were told they had been sentenced to one year at a labor camp for “disturbing public order.”	New York Times
Aug 19, 2008	Would-Be Protesters Detained in China QUOTE: The government’s recent announcement that preapproved protests would be allowed at three sites during the Olympic Games gave him a wisp of hope...On Monday, 10 days into the Games, the government had yet to permit a single demonstration in any of the official protest zones.	New York Times
Aug 13, 2008	IOC turns blind eye to controversy over China's kiddie gymnasts QUOTE: Amid pre-Olympic hand-wringing over why the birthdates of He, Yang and Jiang didn't jibe with other registration materials that showed they might be as young as 14, China swore on its stars' passport stamps that the tots are the legal tumbling age of 16. But while the tiny trio helped their nation whisk the gold medal away from a suddenly clumsy U.S. group in the team competition, it was impossible to deny the visual evidence of something unjust in China.	Sports Illustrated (SI)
Aug 02, 2008	Defiant Chinese Harassed, Jailed Before Olympics: Defiant Chinese Harassed, Jailed Before Olympics QUOTE: The Olympic Games have become the occasion for a broad crackdown against dissidents, gadflies and malcontents this summer. Although human rights activists say they have no accurate estimate of how many people have been imprisoned, they believe the figure to be in the thousands.	Washington Post
Jul 22, 2008	Chinese Officials Nix Warhol Exhibition: Officials say there is no "Chinese art only" policy, but 18 Warhol works slated for a gallery exhibit will spend the Olympics in a warehouse QUOTE: The exhibit, Andy Warhol Portraits: Sports, Stars, and Society, was to have opened on July 26 and run through Aug. 21 at Faurschou Gallery, a space in the city's trendy 798 Art District. However the Ministry of Culture has refused to grant a license on the grounds that it was inappropriate to allow an exhibition of works by a foreign artist during the Olympics, according to Kai Heinze, the Danish director of the gallery.	BusinessWeek

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