By Lucy Hornby
Aug 14, 2008
ON HIGHWAY 110, China (Reuters) - The 180-km (110-mile) ride to Beijing from the industrial town of Xuanhua, in the next province, involves four identify checks, three roadblocks and a baggage scan when passengers get off the bus.
Aug. 4, 2008
By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
Six weeks after China’s devastating earthquake in May, a group of volunteer social workers arrived in the rubble of Fuxin Number Two Primary School and started meeting parents of children killed when the school collapsed in the tremor.
MARCUS GEE
August 1, 2008
Why make such a fuss about human rights in China, some ask? After all, the vast majority of China’s 1.3 billion people are scarcely touched by the Communist government’s rigid controls on dissent. Hundreds of millions of them have clawed their way out of poverty without the benefit of “Western style” rights and they seem quite content as they are. If they don’t challenge the government head on or make other conspicuous trouble, they can go about living their lives with a degree of personal freedom unheard of in earlier times.
July 30, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) -A teacher in southwest China has been sent to a labour camp for publicising photos of school buildings that collapsed in the devastating May 12 earthquake, a rights group said Wednesday.
Riots — check. Earthquake — check. Flood — check. Plague — check. Such a concentration of woes in this high-profile year has fanned rumors and superstition.
Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:36am BST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in southwestern China on Saturday detained and also beat up some parents who tried to protest outside a city hall, demanding answers to the school collapses in last month’s earthquake which killed their children.
6/17/2008
BEIJING (AFP)- Infectious diseases are emerging as a major threat in China’s quake zone, with injured and traumatised victims most at risk, the health minister was quoted as saying Wednesday.
Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:54am BST
By Chris Buckley
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained a retired teacher on subversion charges after she decried the state of many schools buildings that toppled during last month’s devastating earthquake, a Hong Kong-based human rights group said on Wednesday.
JUYUAN, China (AP) — A photograph hinting at shoddy school construction was pulled from an exhibition about last month’s devastating earthquake, an apparent indication of rising government sensitivity over an issue that has already prompted angry protests from parents of children killed.The photo showed a hand clutching a twisted piece of steel rebar that looked no thicker than a pencil, taken from the ruins of the middle school in the town of Juyuan that was one of 40 that collapsed in the May 12 quake.
6/12/2008
By AUDRA ANG
JUYUAN, China (AP)-Police cordoned off schools destroyed in China’s devastating earthquake one month ago Thursday, apparently on alert for protests by parents demanding investigations into whether shoddy construction played a role in their children’s deaths.