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» Urumqi and Xinjiang Authorities Increase Oversight of Migrants, Rental Housing... - 07-June-2010
CECC May 27, 2010 Authorities in the far western region of Xinjiang have stepped up monitoring of migrants in the past year, following demonstrations and rioting in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi in July 2009. Some of the measures, especially controls over rental units in Urumqi that house migrants, appear to target Uyghurs who have migrated to the city from other parts of Xinjiang. Authorities allege that Uyghur migrants who were involved in events in July had lived in Urumqi in unregulated rental housing. Urumqi authorities passed a formal regulation in April to regulate rental housing. Other recent steps to regulate migrants in Xinjiang appear to apply to all migrants in the region, including migrants to Xinjiang from other parts of China. The Urumqi municipal People's Congress Standing Committee in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) passed a new regulation on April 23, 2010, that regulates the management of rental housing, in a step one official connected to problems all

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» China Taxes Xinjiang Energy - 07-June-2010
RFA2010-06-07By Michael Lelyveld BOSTON—China is tapping its energy industry to fund development plans for Xinjiang while leaving the door open for national reforms, analysts say. A new resource tax on oil, gas, and coal producers in Xinjiang is expected to raise 2 billion yuan (U.S. $292.8 million) for the western region this year, although state media have estimated the cost to companies such as PetroChina and Sinopec as high as 5 billion yuan. The switch to a tax based on energy prices rather than volume on June 1 could mark an end to a long-standing break for producers, but it also comes ahead of the one-year anniversary of deadly riots in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi last July. Speaking at a Xinjiang work conference in Beijing on May 17-19, President Hu Jintao said that the tax is aimed at addressing Uyghur concerns that China's reliance on Xinjiang's resources has not helped the local population. "The additional financial resources derived from reform of the resource tax

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» Xinjiang Authorities Tighten Controls Over Muslim Women - 07-June-2010
CECCApril 27, 2010 The Communist Party-controlled women's federation in the far western region of Xinjiang has strengthened efforts in the past year to control the religious practices of Muslim women. The Federation has carried out activities to regulate Muslim women religious specialists and to urge women to remove veils and face coverings. The Federation reported carrying out one local campaign in coordination with government offices, while a separate Communist Party office in another locality reported it would increase monitoring of Muslim women religious specialists. The restrictions on the women's religious freedom come as authorities have instituted broader campaigns targeting "religious extremism" and other perceived threats to the region's stability. The Communist Party-controlled Women's Federation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has strengthened measures in the past year to regulate the religious activities of Muslim women, according to recent reports from th

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» U.S.-China Cooperation: Strengthening the U.S. Hand - 07-June-2010
Heritage FoundationPublished on June 4, 2010by Dean Cheng In the midst of the Obama Administration’s effort to corral Chinese support for international action against Iran and North Korea, it has been widely recounted—including by no less than the Secretary of Defense himself—that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) rebuffed his interest in visiting the PRC for consultations. Speculation is that the Chinese decision not to meet with Secretary Gates is due to their continued pique with U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, although the Chinese themselves have simply relied on the oft-used phrase that such a meeting “is not convenient” (bu fangbian). This incident suggests that military-to-military relations between the PRC and the United States remain at a low point despite efforts by the Obama Administration to “reset” Beijing–Washington relations. It also suggests that the Chinese view military-to-military talks and other U.S. interests as

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» Palau pleads for Uighur refugees - 07-June-2010
ABCSean Dorney reported this story on Sunday, June 6, 2010 08:04:00 ELIZABETH JACKSON: The President of the tiny island nation of Palau is appealing to Australia to accept for permanent resettlement six Uighurs from north western China who late last year were given temporary residence in Palau following eight years of detention in Guantanamo Bay. The six men, who say they fled into Pakistan from Chinese persecution, were handed over to American forces by Pakistani bounty hunters during the early days of President Bush's War on Terror. They were later cleared of charges of terrorism by the United States Supreme Court but they were kept in captivity at Guantanamo Bay because no country would take them. That is, until Palau agreed to give them temporary refuge. Sean Dorney reports from Palau that the six Uighurs are now developing family ties with the Uighur community in Australia. SEAN DORNEY: Most Australians who come to Palau do so for the spectacular diving around Palau's hundreds an

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» Urumqi and Xinjiang Authorities Increase Oversight of Migrants, Rental Housing... - 07-June-2010
CECCMay 27, 2010 Authorities in the far western region of Xinjiang have stepped up monitoring of migrants in the past year, following demonstrations and rioting in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi in July 2009. Some of the measures, especially controls over rental units in Urumqi that house migrants, appear to target Uyghurs who have migrated to the city from other parts of Xinjiang. Authorities allege that Uyghur migrants who were involved in events in July had lived in Urumqi in unregulated rental housing. Urumqi authorities passed a formal regulation in April to regulate rental housing. Other recent steps to regulate migrants in Xinjiang appear to apply to all migrants in the region, including migrants to Xinjiang from other parts of China. The Urumqi municipal People's Congress Standing Committee in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) passed a new regulation on April 23, 2010, that regulates the management of rental housing, in a step one official connected to problems alle

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Uyghur News / World Tibet News

» Why does China keep seeking reassurances on Tibet? - 06-June-2010
Why does China keep seeking reassurances on Tibet? June 06, 2010 By Mayank Chhaya It would have been amusing were it not gratuitous for Beijing to raise the Tibet issue with India's visiting President Pratibha Patil. China has ingrained Tibet so much into its global diplomatic discourse that there is almost no escape for anyone of consequence from taking a position on the dispute, preferably to Beijing's liking. One way to rationalise senior Chinese leader Jia Quinglin seeking President Patil's reassurance over Tibet is to say that the Chinese just cannot help it. But that rationalisation lacks the finesse of global diplomacy which China is so obviously capable of displaying. It is not as if a tactless host made an uncalled for reference to an honoured guest. It is a deliberate element of Chinese foreign policy to raise Tibet irrespective of with whom it is being done. Beijing is astute enough to know that in the Indian system of governance, the president is largely a figurehead who h

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» The Beijing Blues - A rising power is plagued by doubts - 06-June-2010
The Beijing Blues - A rising power is plagued by doubts June 06, 2010 By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK  Published Jun 4, 2010 From the magazine issue dated Jun 14, 2010 Over the last few months, foreign diplomats have privately groused to me about a world power's arrogant foreign policy. Except that they're talking about China, not the United States. A senior official from a developing country said, on background so as not to anger Beijing, "Chinese officials used to meet with us with a great sense of solidarity and warmth. Now they read us a list of demands." Diplomats in Beijing report that Chinese officials now treat them differently than they did just a few years ago. One complained that even getting meetings with senior officials had become difficult. "People I used to see routinely now refuse to give me an appointment," one said to me in Beijing last week. Some of this is understandable. Success breeds confidence, as Americans well know. And China has b

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» Mandala Creation Caught On Time Lapse - 06-June-2010
Mandala Creation Caught On Time Lapse June 06, 2010 http://www.wkrg.com/national/article/mandala-creation-caught-in-time-lapse/892607/Jun-03-2010_5-14-am/ ATLANTA, Georgia - You could call it true performance art with religious connotations. As part of Emory University's annual "Tibet Week" earlier this spring, Buddhist Monks spent six days creating a Mandala of colored sand. An officer at a local monastery says monks have created this precise, sacred art for thousands of years. They use a grated metal rod and a traditional metal funnel. Millions of grains of sands are used to make the art. But it's not just as simple as laying out sand. The monks must first go through lots of training, memorizing religious texts and rituals before they can participate. Within an hour of finishing the art work, the monks swept it away in a ritualistic ceremony. It's designed to symbolize just how fleeting life can be. Monks then passed out half the sand to the audience as blessings for healt

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» Citizen Journalism 'On The Rise' - 06-June-2010
Citizen Journalism 'On The Rise' June 06, 2010 2010-05-27 Chinese Internet users are increasingly taking the news into their own hands. RFA A screen shot from an article about citizen journalist Zhou Shuguang posted on www.dzwww.com. HONG KONG—Citizen journalism in China is thriving in spite of tight government controls on official media and a speedy censorship system that blocks content the ruling Communist Party doesn't like, experts said. "There's a lot of motivation in China right now for the fight against corruption," said Zhu Ruifeng, editor-in-chief of the anti-corruption Web site Supervision by the People. "Particularly on the Internet ... netizens have been using public supervision to force some departments into probing corrupt officials. This strong force against corruption would never have got so large if it hadn't been for citizens working online," Zhu said. Chinese spend more time online than netizens in any other country with the exception of Fr

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» Dalai Lama's Vision for a Healthy, Happy Mind - 06-June-2010
Dalai Lama's Vision for a Healthy, Happy Mind June 06, 2010 What makes a healthy mind? Researcher Richie Davidson at is trying to find out. Through studying the minds and brains of Buddhist meditators, Davidson and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are gaining insight into how we can shift patterns of negative emotion into feelings of compassion, happiness and well-being. I recently attended a private scientific meeting with Dr. Davidson and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The gathering was part of the grand opening celebration of Davidson's new Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. "We see a direct relationship between happiness and physical health," says Davidson. "Negative emotions obscure our ability to make accurate judgments, they cloud the mind and reduce emotional balance." By studying the "healthy" minds of advanced meditators, his team of researchers is attempting to discover the outer limits of brain plasticity and how t

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» China police rescue slaves from brick kiln - 06-June-2010
China police rescue slaves from brick kiln June 06, 2010 Jane Macartney, Beijing Chinese police have freed 33 slave labourers who were held in a brickworks and tortured with electric shocks when they disobeyed their masters. The brutal conditions at the kiln — the latest to be exposed in a series of rural slavery scandals — came to light when a man escaped and told police. The farmer, named as Mr Song, had made his way from the dirt-poor coal-producing Shanxi province in northwestern China to a city farther east, where he hoped to earn more to feed his family back home. The moment that he arrived at Shijiazhuang railway station on April 17, he was approached by a stranger and offered a job. Instead of the promised employment, Mr Song found himself working as a slave with 33 other men at the brick kiln. Conditions were appalling. The workers were regularly beaten, and those who protested were given electric shocks. At night they were herded into a room and the door was lock

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» China Seeing Dawn of a Labor Movement? - 06-June-2010
China Seeing Dawn of a Labor Movement? June 06, 2010 This story was filed by CBS News correspondent Celia Hatton in Beijing.     Striking autoworkers in southern China demanding better pay and job benefits? Just a few weeks ago, that's not something you would have seen in the media headlines here. Since foreign companies began flooding into China in the 1980s, low-wage laborers have formed the backbone of the country's flourishing economy. Few other countries could offer an almost endless supply of relatively well-educated, healthy young laborers who would toil for long shifts without complaint. The only legal labor unions in China are sanctioned by the Chinese government, which has ample reason to keep work disputes to a minimum. That could be changing. About 1,900 workers at a Honda manufacturing plant in southern China's Guangdong province successfully negotiated a pay raise after walking off the job for more than ten days. The company had reportedly been hiring trainees

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» What happens when the Dalai Lama dies? - 06-June-2010
What happens when the Dalai Lama dies? June 06, 2010 DHARMSALA, India (AP) — The question looms over this raggedy hillside town, a place where ancient mysticism constantly brushes against the realities of modern geopolitics. The monks who fled across the Himalayas ask it quietly, as do the exiled politicians. Even the angry young activists are careful how they raise the issue. But as the man at the center of the Tibetan exile movement approaches his 75th birthday, the question has become impossible to escape: What happens after the Dalai Lama dies? The issue echoes far from Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's home since he fled Tibet after a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. It ranges from policy decisions in Beijing to widespread fears inside Tibet and among the 150,000 exiles that their struggle for autonomy may collapse with the death of their icon. It is something he thinks about all the time. "When I pass away, when I die, of course (there will be) a setback. Very ser

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» Surveillance in Lhasa Hotels - 06-June-2010
Surveillance in Lhasa Hotels June 06, 2010 2010-05-31 All guests registering at Lhasa hotels and guesthouses will have their details stored in a police database, and their movements monitored by staff. Online publicity photo Small, family-run guesthouses such as this could be hit by new security rules in Lhasa. HONG KONG—Hotels in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, are being forced to install electronic surveillance equipment amid an ongoing security clampdown in the city, industry sources said. Under a new set of police regulations, hotels and guesthouses in the Himalayan city will be required to install electronic identity card readers and closed circuit television cameras to monitor guests. “We have had all [the equipment] intalled here,” said the owner of one Lhasa guesthouse. “We had to do this, because if we hadn't, the Lhasa municipal police [could]refuse to issue us with our business license.” “We now have monitoring equipment, a second-generation

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» Glaciers in Tibet - never really large - 06-June-2010
Glaciers in Tibet - never really large June 06, 2010 The Tibetan Plateau is the largest and highest mountain region on Earth with glaciers whose meltwater provides the water supply for more than 1.3 billion people through several of the largest rivers in Asia. In a thesis in Physical Geography from Stockholm University, Jakob Heyman shows that the glaciers in Tibet have remained relatively small and have not been much larger than today for tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years back in time. The study deals with the growth and decay of glaciers in Tibet far back in time, with the aim of attaining better knowledge of glaciations and their link to climate variations. The results show that the glaciers in Tibet have varied in size but that they have been fairly small far back in time. In several places the glaciers seems to have been similar in size to today's glaciers or just slightly larger during the entire last Ice Age. Considering that Tibet, often called the roof of th

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» Tibet’s prime minister-in-exile visits Stanford - 06-June-2010
Tibet’s prime minister-in-exile visits Stanford June 06, 2010 The “Free Tibet” bumper stickers may have faded since the 1990s, but for Samdhong Rinpoche, Buddhist scholar and Tibet’s prime minister-in-exile, the issue remains as clear as ever. He and Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the Uighur minority movement in China, spoke in Stanford’s Cubberley Auditorium on Friday about the problems their societies face under Chinese sovereignty. Samdhong Rinpoche, the exiled prime minister of Tibet, spoke at Stanford on Friday. (VIVIAN WONG/The Stanford Daily) Clayborne Carson, history professor and director of Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, joined the panel to discuss his own experiences in China and the promise that nonviolent protest holds for the future. Wearing traditional dress, the prime minister and Kadeer received standing ovations as they entered the auditorium. Both in exile, both attempting to gain their peoples’ fre

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» Internet claims too testy for China - 06-June-2010
Internet claims too testy for China June 06, 2010 Internet claims too testy for China By Jian Junbo SHANGHAI - European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes thinks China's Internet censorship qualifies as a trade barrier that should be taken up by the World Trade Organization (WTO). Speaking at the tail-end of a five-day trip to China on May 17, Kroes linked the matter to achieving a competitive environment for European companies and raised the censorship issue in a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang in Beijing. "It is one of those issues that needs to be tackled within the WTO," she told reporters in Shanghai. "I am pushing wherever I can just to get European enterprises on a level playing field in China and the other way around." She is not alone. Her remarks over the Chinese government's strict monitoring of Internet content within the country - in which  information deemed sensitive by the ruling Communist Party is blocked - is evidence that

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Uyghur News / Radio Free Asia English

» Remembering Tiananmen Square - 04-June-2010
Three former student leaders share reflection on China's 1989 pro-democracy movement. RFA Chai Ling (R) and Xiong Yan (L) share their memories in a discussion hosted by RFA's Mandarin service. Chai Ling was one of the best-known student leaders on Tiananmen Square, and has been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize. Chai, who joined the student movement relatively late, went on to lead organized pro-democracy protests, including hunger strikes, alongside Wang Dan and Wu'er Kaixi. She led the last group of students to leave the Square in the early hours of June 4. She later fled China with the help of overseas organizations."How I got involved with the student movement is very simple. Basically I went on April 17 to help the students on Tiananmen Square by taking them water and bread. Then the police were beating people up and shoving them around and I suddenly got angry. I thought that we have been driven [by the Chinese government] for so many years, that now we should stop runnin

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» Translations Reveal Tibetan Woman Mystic - 04-June-2010
How a fiercely independent Tibetan girl born more than a century ago became a leading Buddhist mystic—and lives on today. Photo: Antonio Terrone Statue of Sera Khandro housed in Kathmandu, Nepal. WASHINGTON—A unique collection of writings by a female Tibetan mystic, little known even among Tibetan Buddhists, is providing a rare glimpse of religious life in Tibet 100 years ago and is stirring new interest among scholars seven decades after her death.The “treasure revealer” Sera Khandro (1892-1940) wrote her autobiography not in classical Tibetan but in the colloquial Tibetan dialect of Golok, in an area that now straddles the border between China's Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. She’s the subject of a forthcoming book by Sarah Jacoby, an assistant professor of religion at Chicago's Northwestern University.“Because Sera Khandro didn’t have a monastic education—she never studied in a monastery or a nunnery—she writes in a kind of ‘oral’ language,” Jacoby said in an interview.“So her autob

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» Quake Critic Arrested - 04-June-2010
A Tibetan who criticized China’s quake relief now faces formal charges. RFA Shogdung, in an undated photo. HONG KONG—Authorities in the western Chinese province of Qinghai have now formally arrested a Tibetan writer who signed an open letter critical of the government’s quake relief efforts in the region. This step almost always precedes a conviction in China. “As we were directed by the local authorities, my mother and I went to police station to receive the formal arrest letter for my father on May 28, 2010, around 6 p.m.,” Yeshi Tsomo, daughter of the Tibetan writer Tagyal, said in an interview. “The contents of the letter were very similar to what the Chinese officials had said earlier. My father was accused of instigating to split the motherland. This and the letter we were given earlier, when he was first detained, are almost the same except for the mention that his case had been transferred for prosecution,” she said. Tagyal is detained in Xining Metropolitan Detention Center No

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Uyghur News / Uyghur American Association

» Ms. Rebiya Kadeer Speaks at the Geneva Human Rights Summit - 04-June-2010
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» Ms. Rebiya Kadeer Speaks at the Movies That Matter Film Festival... - 04-June-2010
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» China's political and military leaders split over ties to Washington, Gates says... - 04-June-2010
The Washington Post By Craig Whitlock Friday, June 4, 2010; A08 SINGAPORE - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates accused China's military on Thursday of impeding relations with the Pentagon, taking exception to its unwillingness to invite him to Beijing during his trip to Asia this week. Gates told reporters that there is a clear split between China's political leaders, who he said want a stronger military connection with Washington, and the People's Liberation Army, which he said does not. "I think they are reluctant to engage with us on a broad level," he said. "The PLA is significantly less interested in this relationship than the political leadership of China." Beijing's political and economic relations with Washington have gradually improved in recent years, as the emerging global superpower and the established one have tried to come to terms with each other. But military cooperation has lagged, a source of frustration for Pentagon officials. They say that communication with the Peo

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» Deng Is Said to Have Backed Tiananmen Violence - 04-June-2010
The New York Times June 4, 2010 By MICHAEL WINES and ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING — The former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ordered the military to try to limit injuries when it moved against Tiananmen Square protesters 21 years ago, but told them to be ready to “shed some blood” if necessary, according to an unpublished diary said to document internal decisions that led to the violent crackdown. The death toll from the military action against the protesters, whose anniversary is on Friday, remains in dispute. Official estimates at the time said 200 demonstrators died; some rights activists place the toll at 1,000 or more and say anywhere from 70 to 300 Tiananmen protesters remain in prison. The diary, covering some nine weeks before and after the military action, is said to be written by Li Peng, China’s premier at the time and an ally of conservatives in the Chinese leadership led by Mr. Deng. A Hong Kong publisher, New Century Press, plans to release the 279-page m

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» Two senior China judges shot dead in court office - 04-June-2010
Reuters BEIJING Tue Jun 1, 2010 9:55am BST (Reuters) - A man wielding three guns shot dead two senior judges and another court official in the central Chinese province of Hunan and then killed himself, media reported. The attack at the Lingling District People's Court in Yongzhou came on the same day as a new governor was named in Hunan province. The man shot the two judges with a rifle, before turning a pistol and a small machinegun on court personnel rushing to the rescue. He killed a clerk and injured others before putting a gun in his own mouth and pulling the trigger, according to the Sanxiang Metropolis Daily (www.hunan.voc.com.cn) a popular local paper. It did not give a motive. The paper also did not say how the unidentified gunman could have entered a court office building, which in China are usually guarded by gates, police and security guards. Gun ownership is illegal in China but there has been an uptick in gun-related crimes reported in the media. Four men were jailed for

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Uyghur News / Uyghur Human Rights Project

» Ms. Rebiya Kadeer Speaks at the Geneva Human Rights Summit - 04-June-2010
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» China's political and military leaders split over ties to Washington, Gates says... - 04-June-2010
The Washington PostBy Craig WhitlockFriday, June 4, 2010; A08 SINGAPORE - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates accused China's military on Thursday of impeding relations with the Pentagon, taking exception to its unwillingness to invite him to Beijing during his trip to Asia this week. Gates told reporters that there is a clear split between China's political leaders, who he said want a stronger military connection with Washington, and the People's Liberation Army, which he said does not. "I think they are reluctant to engage with us on a broad level," he said. "The PLA is significantly less interested in this relationship than the political leadership of China." Beijing's political and economic relations with Washington have gradually improved in recent years, as the emerging global superpower and the established one have tried to come to terms with each other. But military cooperation has lagged, a source of frustration for Pentagon officials. They say that communication with the Peopl

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» Ms. Rebiya Kadeer Speaks at the Movies That Matter Film Festival... - 04-June-2010
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» Two senior China judges shot dead in court office - 04-June-2010
ReutersBEIJINGTue Jun 1, 2010 9:55am BST (Reuters) - A man wielding three guns shot dead two senior judges and another court official in the central Chinese province of Hunan and then killed himself, media reported. The attack at the Lingling District People's Court in Yongzhou came on the same day as a new governor was named in Hunan province. The man shot the two judges with a rifle, before turning a pistol and a small machinegun on court personnel rushing to the rescue. He killed a clerk and injured others before putting a gun in his own mouth and pulling the trigger, according to the Sanxiang Metropolis Daily (www.hunan.voc.com.cn) a popular local paper. It did not give a motive. The paper also did not say how the unidentified gunman could have entered a court office building, which in China are usually guarded by gates, police and security guards. Gun ownership is illegal in China but there has been an uptick in gun-related crimes reported in the media. Four men were jailed for o

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» Deng Is Said to Have Backed Tiananmen Violence - 04-June-2010
The New York TimesJune 4, 2010By MICHAEL WINES and ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING — The former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ordered the military to try to limit injuries when it moved against Tiananmen Square protesters 21 years ago, but told them to be ready to “shed some blood” if necessary, according to an unpublished diary said to document internal decisions that led to the violent crackdown. The death toll from the military action against the protesters, whose anniversary is on Friday, remains in dispute. Official estimates at the time said 200 demonstrators died; some rights activists place the toll at 1,000 or more and say anywhere from 70 to 300 Tiananmen protesters remain in prison. The diary, covering some nine weeks before and after the military action, is said to be written by Li Peng, China’s premier at the time and an ally of conservatives in the Chinese leadership led by Mr. Deng. A Hong Kong publisher, New Century Press, plans to release the 279-page man

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Uyghur News / World Tibet News

» Amnesty: G20 frustrating human rights progress - 04-June-2010
Amnesty: G20 frustrating human rights progress June 04, 2010 By SYLVIA HUI (AP) – May 26, 2010 LONDON — Amnesty International accused the United States, Russia and China on Thursday of ignoring human rights violations by allies and failing to open their own records to scrutiny in an annual survey meant to pressure governments to act more compassionately. The human rights organization took the U.S. to task for President Barack Obama's failure — despite promises — to close its prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and criticized Russia and China for what it described as blocking international scrutiny of the Sri Lankan government's conduct during its bloody conflict with insurgents. Amnesty criticized all three nations, and several other Group of 20 countries, for refusing to participate in the International Criminal Court, which is intended to prosecute war criminals. "China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey and the USA have stood aside from — if not

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» Tiananmen mothers fear history will die with them - 04-June-2010
Tiananmen mothers fear history will die with them June 04, 2010 By CARA ANNA, Associated Press Writer Cara Anna, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jun 2, 10:20 am ET BEIJING – The man was in his 80s and dying. The woman was 73 and held his hand. They each lost a son in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and fought for decades to get China to acknowledge the deaths. But Duan Hongbing wouldn't live to see that day. "I held his hand and told him that I won't give up," the woman, Zhang Xianling, said she told Duan on a visit to his Beijing hospital bed. She said he squeezed her hand and closed his eyes in response, no longer able to speak. He died last year, a few days after that promise was made. As the Tiananmen anniversary approaches Friday, the aging parents of victims fear their cause will die with them. The oldest of the Tiananmen Mothers, as the group is called, is 94 years old. The group's leader, retired professor Ding Zilin, says more and m

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» Hong Kong Police Confiscate Tiananmen Statue - 04-June-2010
Hong Kong Police Confiscate Tiananmen Statue June 04, 2010 (AP)  HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong police on Saturday confiscated a statue mourning victims of China's 1989 crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square and arrested 13 activists, a participant said, in what critics called an escalation in political censorship in the semiautonomous Chinese territory. China's military suppression of pro-democracy student protesters in Beijing, which killed at least hundreds, is still a taboo topic on the mainland. But in Hong Kong, a former British colony that enjoys some Western-style civil liberties, the incident is openly mourned, with tens of thousands usually attending an annual candlelight vigil on the evening of June 4, the anniversary of the crackdown. However, on Saturday, Hong Kong police officers confiscated a Tiananmen-themed statue and a carving shortly after pro-democracy activists set them up outside a popular mall as part of their annual commemorative activities, TV news foota

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» Tibetans Protest Over Land - 03-June-2010
Residents of a quake-stricken county are angrily rejecting plans to move them from their land. Local resident An undated photo submitted by a local resident shows buildings in Gyegu town, Yushu county undergoing demolition following the April 14 earthquake. HONG KONG—Scores of Tibetan residents of an earthquake-damaged western Chinese county are protesting local government plans to take possession of choice properties to reconstruct ravaged homes, schools, offices, and other sites, Tibetan sources say. Some properties claimed by the authorities suffered no damage in the April earthquake, which left nearly 3,000 people dead, according to Tibetans in Yushu county, Qinghai province, as well as Tibetans in exile who said they have been in touch with relatives there. “The local government has forced local residents out of their houses—they said they had to clean the area to build office buildings, schools, and parks, and they are planning to take away the sites for our homes and our fields,

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» Police Quash Tiananmen Memorials - 03-June-2010
China blocks efforts to commemorate the 1989 massacre in Beijing of pro-democracy demonstrators. Photo: courtesy of Zhu Yanguang Police in Beijing detained six artists as they staged public memorial events outside the capital's Museum of Fine Arts. HONG KONG—Attempts to stage public events and protests commemorating the 21st anniversary of the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square have been largely thwarted by Chinese authorities, activists said."The Chinese government continues to refuse to openly and truthfully address the events of June 4, 1989, and persists in its efforts to silence Chinese citizens who seek to commemorate the massacre," the nongovernment network Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said.Activists using the microblogging service Twitter said a planned commemorative event on the campus of Beijing University, one of the centers of the student movement two decades ago, had failed owing to the presence of large

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» Palau urges Australia to allow permanent resettlement for six Uighurs... - 03-June-2010
Radio Australia Updated June 3, 2010 07:51:03 The President of Palau is appealing to Australia to accept for permanent resettlement, six Uighurs from north western China who late last year were given temporary residence in Palau following eight years of detention in Guantanamo Bay. The six men, who say they fled into Pakistan from Chinese persecution were handed over to American forces by Pakistani bounty hunters during the early days of President Bush's war on terrorism. They were later cleared of charges of terrorism by the United States Supreme court, but were kept in captivity at Guantanamo Bay because no country would take them until Palau agreed to give them temporary refuge. Sean Dorney reports from Palau that the six Uighurs are developing family ties with the Uighur community in Australia. Presenter: Sean Dorney Speakers: Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau; Abdulghappar Abulrahman; Uighur Ex Guantanamo Bay Detainee; Ahmad Abdulahad, Uighur Ex Guantanamo Bay Detainee; Engli

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» Tibet?s prime minister-in-exile visits Stanford - 03-June-2010
Stanford Daily Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 By Zoe Leavitt The “Free Tibet” bumper stickers may have faded since the 1990s, but for Samdhong Rinpoche, Buddhist scholar and Tibet’s prime minister-in-exile, the issue remains as clear as ever. He and Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the Uighur minority movement in China, spoke in Stanford’s Cubberley Auditorium on Friday about the problems their societies face under Chinese sovereignty. Clayborne Carson, history professor and director of Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, joined the panel to discuss his own experiences in China and the promise that nonviolent protest holds for the future. Wearing traditional dress, the prime minister and Kadeer received standing ovations as they entered the auditorium. Both in exile, both attempting to gain their peoples’ freedom from Chinese sovereignty, they described the oppression of two ancient societies. “The Tibetans remain in exile,

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Uyghur News / Uyghur Human Rights Project

» Tibet's prime minister-in-exile visits Stanford - 03-June-2010
Stanford DailyThursday, June 3rd, 2010By Zoe Leavitt The “Free Tibet” bumper stickers may have faded since the 1990s, but for Samdhong Rinpoche, Buddhist scholar and Tibet’s prime minister-in-exile, the issue remains as clear as ever. He and Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the Uighur minority movement in China, spoke in Stanford’s Cubberley Auditorium on Friday about the problems their societies face under Chinese sovereignty. Clayborne Carson, history professor and director of Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, joined the panel to discuss his own experiences in China and the promise that nonviolent protest holds for the future. Wearing traditional dress, the prime minister and Kadeer received standing ovations as they entered the auditorium. Both in exile, both attempting to gain their peoples’ freedom from Chinese sovereignty, they described the oppression of two ancient societies. “The Tibetans remain in exile, an

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» Palau urges Australia to allow permanent resettlement for six Uighurs... - 03-June-2010
Radio AustraliaUpdated June 3, 2010 07:51:03 The President of Palau is appealing to Australia to accept for permanent resettlement, six Uighurs from north western China who late last year were given temporary residence in Palau following eight years of detention in Guantanamo Bay.The six men, who say they fled into Pakistan from Chinese persecution were handed over to American forces by Pakistani bounty hunters during the early days of President Bush's war on terrorism.They were later cleared of charges of terrorism by the United States Supreme court, but were kept in captivity at Guantanamo Bay because no country would take them until Palau agreed to give them temporary refuge. Sean Dorney reports from Palau that the six Uighurs are developing family ties with the Uighur community in Australia.Presenter: Sean Dorney Speakers: Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau; Abdulghappar Abulrahman; Uighur Ex Guantanamo Bay Detainee; Ahmad Abdulahad, Uighur Ex Guantanamo Bay Detainee; English t

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» Anatomy of a Factory Visit - 02-June-2010
North Koreans shine and polish venues in an impoverished northern province for a visit by their Dear Leader. AFP This undated photo released by the official Korean Central News Agency on May 18, 2010 shows Kim Jong Il visiting a battle memorial in Hyesan. SEOUL—Details of a March visit by North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Il to Yanggang province have begun to trickle out of the isolated Stalinist state, with sources in the region saying the trip was costly and lacked any real value. Instead, North Koreans in the area have described an elaborate propaganda exercise for which plans were first made six months earlier. “New tools and machinery kits, purchased by the government, were brought to the Hyesan Steel Mill in September last year, but for a while were kept unpacked and unassembled,” a source familiar with the steel mill’s operations said. In March, the new tools and machinery were assembled, “to operate them and provide a demonstration during Kim Jong Il’s visit,” the source ad

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» D.C. Circuit Deals New Setback to Uighur Detainees - 02-June-2010
Marcia Coyle The National Law Journal June 02, 2010 A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected another attempt by five Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be released into the United States. In Kiyemba v. Obama, the panel, in a per curiam opinion, reinstated a 2009 circuit court decision which held that it is within "the exclusive power of the political branches to decide which aliens may, and which aliens may not, enter the United States, and on what terms." The U.S. Supreme Court in March had vacated that 2009 decision and ordered the circuit court to take another look at the case in light of new developments surrounding the government's efforts to relocate the five men, members of an ethnic minority known as Uighurs. Of the 17 Uighurs originally seeking release, 12 have accepted resettlement offers: four in Bermuda, six in Palau and two in Switzerland. The five remaining detainees have received and rejected three offers. The t

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» Strategic alliances a deceptive blind alley - 02-June-2010
Global Times 21:17 June 01 2010 By Ni Lexiong On Friday, the Global Times ran an article by He Kai, "China needs security allies, not just economic partners," arguing that China should form alliances with neighboring countries for security purposes. But historically, countries sought security alliances either because they felt that their core national interests, such as sovereignty and territorial integrity, were seriously threatened, or because they were ready to expand their external sphere of influence. Although China's sovereignty and territorial integrity are threatened to a certain degree, China's nuclear power is sufficient to safeguard its national core interests. Therefore, the degree of such threats is not very serious, and China can fully handle such threats with its own capabilities. The Taiwan question and separatists in Tibet Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, despite interference from external forces, are essentially domestic matters, and the key t

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» Beijing's Islamic Complex - 02-June-2010
The Wall Street Journal JUNE 2, 2010 By CHARLES HORNER AND ERIC BROWN In early July 2009, the official Chinese press reported that 197 people had been bludgeoned or stabbed to death and nearly 2,000 more injured in communal violence in Urumqi, the principal city of Xinjiang, the People's Republic of China's farthest northwest region. The antagonists were Han Chinese—Urumqi's dominant ethnic group thanks to decades of government-encouraged settlement—and Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority, some seven to nine million strong, who have long bristled under China's erratic and harsh rule. For the most part, deference to China's rising regional profile subdued the response of Muslim states in the Greater Middle East. Even those two most self-congratulatory champions of Islamic causes, Saudi Arabia and Iran, downplayed the violence as an internal Chinese affair. Each of these countries, of course, has billions of dollars of business on the line with China, and they are racked as we

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» China launches new resources tax in Xinjiang - 02-June-2010
The Wall Street Journal JUNE 2, 2010, 7:55 A.M. ET By SHAI OSTER BEIJING—China is introducing a 5% tax that the country's energy companies must pay on oil and gas produced in Xinjiang, part of efforts to improve the economic prospects of the poor western region, where local ethnic Muslims have rioted against Han Chinese and where the windfall from the development of rich resources has been scant. The new natural resource tax, which will eventually be rolled out nationwide, will increase the local government's coffers, but will hurt the profits of China's two biggest oil and natural gas companies, PetroChina Co. and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., also known as Sinopec. Xinjiang is important for China's energy needs: It is the source of 13% of its crude oil production and 29% of its natural-gas output. Oil and gas production accounted for nearly 30% of the economic output of Xinjiang last year, a vast area ringed by high mountains and deserts that has seen increasing migration

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» Pak-China security cooperation - 02-June-2010
Daily Times Dr Rashid Ahmad KhanWednesday, June 02, 2010The Chinese ambassador to Pakistan has publicly stated that separatist elements responsible for trouble in Xinjiang received training in Pakistan’s tribal areas and Afghanistan during the 1980s While bilateral military ties between Pakistan and China remain strong, the two countries are looking forward to expanding the parameters of their cooperation to address new security concerns that threaten not only the peace and security in the region but also pose a serious challenge to the national security interests of the two countries. This was evident from the accords reached between the two countries during Chinese Defence Minister General Liang’s recent visit to Pakistan as the head of a 17-member delegation. Underlining the Chinese commitment to bolstering Pakistan’s defence capabilities and supporting it politically, General Liang, in his statement, told his Pakistani hosts that his country would continue to pro

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» China launches new resources tax in Xinjiang - 02-June-2010
The Wall Street JournalJUNE 2, 2010, 7:55 A.M. ETBy SHAI OSTER BEIJING—China is introducing a 5% tax that the country's energy companies must pay on oil and gas produced in Xinjiang, part of efforts to improve the economic prospects of the poor western region, where local ethnic Muslims have rioted against Han Chinese and where the windfall from the development of rich resources has been scant. The new natural resource tax, which will eventually be rolled out nationwide, will increase the local government's coffers, but will hurt the profits of China's two biggest oil and natural gas companies, PetroChina Co. and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., also known as Sinopec. Xinjiang is important for China's energy needs: It is the source of 13% of its crude oil production and 29% of its natural-gas output. Oil and gas production accounted for nearly 30% of the economic output of Xinjiang last year, a vast area ringed by high mountains and deserts that has seen increasing migration of

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» Strategic alliances a deceptive blind alley - 02-June-2010
Global Times21:17 June 01 2010By Ni Lexiong On Friday, the Global Times ran an article by He Kai, "China needs security allies, not just economic partners," arguing that China should form alliances with neighboring countries for security purposes. But historically, countries sought security alliances either because they felt that their core national interests, such as sovereignty and territorial integrity, were seriously threatened, or because they were ready to expand their external sphere of influence. Although China's sovereignty and territorial integrity are threatened to a certain degree, China's nuclear power is sufficient to safeguard its national core interests. Therefore, the degree of such threats is not very serious, and China can fully handle such threats with its own capabilities. The Taiwan question and separatists in Tibet Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, despite interference from external forces, are essentially domestic matters, and the key to

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» Beijing's Islamic Complex - 02-June-2010
The Wall Street JournalJUNE 2, 2010By CHARLES HORNER AND ERIC BROWN In early July 2009, the official Chinese press reported that 197 people had been bludgeoned or stabbed to death and nearly 2,000 more injured in communal violence in Urumqi, the principal city of Xinjiang, the People's Republic of China's farthest northwest region. The antagonists were Han Chinese—Urumqi's dominant ethnic group thanks to decades of government-encouraged settlement—and Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority, some seven to nine million strong, who have long bristled under China's erratic and harsh rule. For the most part, deference to China's rising regional profile subdued the response of Muslim states in the Greater Middle East. Even those two most self-congratulatory champions of Islamic causes, Saudi Arabia and Iran, downplayed the violence as an internal Chinese affair. Each of these countries, of course, has billions of dollars of business on the line with China, and they are racked as well

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Uyghur News / World Tibet News

» Challenges of reporting in China - 02-June-2010
Challenges of reporting in China June 02, 2010 http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/05/25/bs.vause.china.beijing.cnn

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