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A Tibetan Street Hawker's Beijing Journey

Reforestation programs are forcing Tibetans in Zanta's remote village to leave their tiny farms to make a living. Zanta, a... more

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8 days ago

Jail for Reporting Poison Animal Feed

Once the owner of a private company, Ms. Wang Haizheng is now an appellant leading a vagrant’s life to avoid revenge, because she and her husband reported a company that was producing poisoned animal feed.

In a SOH interview on November 9, Wang described how she escaped being chased by about five to six men in Beijing with the help of other appellants on October 24. “I sensed danger and immediately ran when they gave me that threatening look. They also tried to stop a taxi I was in but failed.” Wang added the men were actually in a police vehicle.

Wang came to Beijing to appeal for her husband Mr. Gao Songlin and to find a lawyer to represent him.
Protecting Society Can Land You to Jail

Gao tipped off the local regime authorities that a large feed company was producing poisoned animal feed. However, for this information, he was framed and sentenced to four years in prison by the local authorities in August 2007.

“Shijiazhuang City has China’s largest animal feed producer and wholesale operation, but the biggest manufacturer is producing poisoned feed,” said Wang.

Gao used to work as the General Sales Manager for Feilong Animal Medicine Corporation. Gao reported the company’s crime, and the Ministry of Agriculture shut down the company. However, it changed its name to Dashan Animal Medicine Corporation and continued business-as-usual without any government interference.
Carcinogenic Additives

Gao discovered that the company added the carcinogenics thyroprotein and melamine to its pig and chicken feed products.

“Thyroprotein can speed up the growth of a pig, and it’s cheaper than fish powder. A piglet can quickly reach a weight of 100 kilograms using such carcinogenic feed, but it takes one year without such additives. The feed additive has a special flavor that lures pigs to eat more feed and it wants to drink and sleep thereafter, thus it shortens the growth period.” said Wang.

According to Wang, the company bribed local police and the court with about one million yuan (approximately US$145,500) to throw her husband into jail. Because of her repeated appeals to the Beijing National Appeals Office, the Shijiazhuang City police followed her to Beijing to apprehend her.Once the owner of a private company, Ms. Wang Haizheng is now an appellant leading a vagrant’s life to avoid revenge,... more

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5 days ago

Is Beijing Fudging Its Pollution Numbers?

A report has been published suggesting that the Chinese government may have falsified statistics in reporting decreases in air... more

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6 days ago

Calling for Obama in Beijing

American expat Clayton McClintock participates in democracy from China. A 13-hour time difference can't keep him from... more

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8 days ago

Asia and Obama

Check it out - a CNN video of Asia's reaction to Obama's election.

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13 days ago

China sentences 55 people over Tibet riots

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China has sentenced 55 people for their involvement in anti-government protests that broke out in Tibet in... more

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13 days ago

Beijing History Lesson

The Chinese government has slowly been overhauling Beijing to erase any memory of the cities past. In this story, Zack Mexico will... more

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21 days ago

China breaks up male prostitution ring

BEIJING (Reuters) – Four Chinese men have been jailed for up to 5- years for running a male prostitution service that sold... more

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25 days ago

Europe and China clash on global financial crisis.

China is today resisting calls from European leaders to take a lead role in efforts to combat the credit crisis that threatens to... more

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25 days ago

UN: Major inequality in US cities

Levels of economic disparity in major US cities, including New York and Washington DC, are comparable to those of African cities,... more

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26 days ago

White House seeks to halt release of 17 detainees

Again, we see this administration that thinks it is above the law..even the Supreme Court. Why? They have much to hide..here is the article, and the rest at the link

This week could see a remarkable moment in American legal history, as 17 Guantanamo detainees are on the verge of being let out of prison. On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the men released into the U.S. and told the Bush administration to produce the men in his courtroom Friday morning.

The detainees are 17 Chinese Muslims, known as Uighurs, who have been held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly seven years. In past decades, the U.S. government has treated the group as Chinese nationalists. But in 2003, in an effort to accommodate the Communist Chinese government, the Bush administration listed one of the Uighur groups as a terrorist organization, using the designation as a rationale for the Uighurs' continued detention at Guantanamo.

However, a largely conservative panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled in June that the group is not hostile to the U.S. and that the administration had produced no reliable information to justify holding the Uighurs. The case was then sent back to a lower court for further action, including the possibility of release.

Federal Judge Ricardo Urbina said Tuesday that, in essence, enough is enough. Whatever authority the government may have had for detaining the Uighurs has ceased, he said.

The government now concedes these men are not enemy combatants, Urbina noted, and has provided no other justification for detention.

Uighurs living in the United States have arranged for 17 families to take the men until more permanent arrangements can be made. Urbina said he would hear from the Department of Homeland Security as to any conditions it would like imposed on the men after release — conditions that could include a ban on travel and requirements that the men report to authorities on a regular basis. The judge reacted angrily, however, when Bush administration lawyers suggested they could imprison the men in the U.S. once the Uighurs are transferred here. It is expected he will forbid that.

As luck would have it, one of the lawyers for the Uighurs was in Guantanamo on Tuesday and told the men of their court victory. The lawyer is not permitted to talk about the men's reaction by phone under classification rules.

The Chinese government on Tuesday again demanded that the men be returned, but the U.S. has refused because it concedes they would be tortured and possibly killed. The Chinese government sees the Uighurs as a threat because many of them want greater autonomy from Beijing.Again, we see this administration that thinks it is above the law..even the Supreme Court. Why? They have much to hide..here is... more