Charges Pressed After Unsettling Torch Relay
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May 11, 2008
April 30, 2008
Chinese students facing charges and deportation following scuffles in Australia’s Olympics Torch Relay
by TGS
April 29, 2008
Five Chinese students in Australia are facing charges and deportation due to scuffles in the April 24 Olympic Torch Relay event, reported Australian Chinese Website, Snowpear, on April 29, 2008. Chinese students are hoping the matter would be resolved via diplomatic channels. Apparently Chinese Embassy and Consulates in Australia are unwilling to be involved stating they have nothing to do with the incident.
April 29, 2008
Australian Chinese Organized to Support Olympic Torch and Neutralize Protesters
by ZYH
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Boxun reports on April 14 that various Chinese organizations in Australia are being organized to circulate an urgent letter calling on Chinese in various Australian cities to help [Chinese people in] Canberra and support the April 24 Olympic Torch relay in Canberra. The report published the whole letter issued by the Australian Chinese Youth Exchange Promotion Association. The letter claims that there will be several hundred protesters composed of “Tibetan Independence” and other “anti-China” forces trying to sabotage the event. “These people rehearsed to humiliate China using the torch to light cigarettes and toilet paper, and using extinguishers to put out the Torch,” says the letter. The letter detailed the schedules for free transportation from various locations and promised to provide free meals. The report questions who pays for the free meals and free transportation.
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Letter to the Editor
By David Matas
March 16, 2008
Editor
Star Times
New Zealand
The article written by Tim Hume “The gospel truth: Falun Gong” is troubling. I have written a report with David Kilgour which concludes that Falun Gong practitioners in China have been killed in the tens of thousands so that their organs could be sold to transplant tourists. Hume’s article casts doubt on our report in a number of gratuitous ways.
April 17, 2008
Rudd helps spring China from its trap
Apr 14, 2008
WHEN Kevin Rudd first met Hu Jintao in Sydney, he received and accepted a spontaneous invitation to his family to attend the Olympic Games. Bantering in Chinese, the President Hu momentarily forgot his usual stiff and pre-scripted self.
April 16, 2008
Chinese rally in Australia to guard Olympic flame
Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:24am EDT
By Rob Taylor
CANBERRA, April 16 (Reuters) - Australian police received tough powers on Wednesday to search Olympic torch relay protesters for weapons, as Chinese students called for strong men to guard the flame against pro-Tibet “scum” and “running dogs”, stoking fears of violent clashes in Canberra.