Radio Free China
News from China & asia with a focus on human rights and religious liberty.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
CHINA’S GUANGDONG CRACKS DOWN ON CUTTING-EDGE MEDIA(RFA) Recent leadership changes in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong may be part of a crackdown on cutting-edge media organizations there that are beginning to break sensitive news stories without prior government approval, RFA’s Mandarin service reports.
10:11:34 AM
MANY IN NORTH KOREA DON'T KNOW FOOD AID GETS DIVERTED(RFA) Many North Koreans are unaware that international food aid to their isolated Stalinist country is frequently diverted to feed the military and bureaucrats, believing government propaganda that rest of the world is starving the country out, RFA's Korean service reports.
10:09:55 AM
Third SARS Case Suspected in China. A 35-year-old man hospitalized with SARS symptoms in southern China was officially pronounced a "suspected case" by the government on Monday, becoming the country's third patient of the season linked to the still-mysterious virus. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
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