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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
Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Nutrition Making for Bigger Kids in China. China's children are getting bigger - and that's bad news for many parents' pocket books. Since the 1949 communist revolution, China has given children under age 7 free bus fares, amusement park admission and other services - so long as they're under 3-foot-7. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
10:00:14 AM    

Christians Call for Justice in India's Tribal Hills [onewworld.net]
9:59:13 AM    

1 Peter 2:9. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. [English Standard Version Bible Daily Verse]
9:54:54 AM    

China Arrests an Internet Dissident. A former Chinese civil servant has been arrested for "inciting subversion" on the Internet, the government said Tuesday, issuing the first official word on his case almost four months after he was detained. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
9:53:54 AM    

U.S. to Spend $110M to Fight Trafficking. The U.S. government said Tuesday that it will spend $100 million to eradicate human trafficking, which it described as a modern day form of slavery. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
9:53:26 AM    

Family mourns lost cockler son. Louisa Lim, in China, meets the grieving family of one of the men who died picking cockles in Morecambe Bay. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition]
9:52:05 AM    

China internet dissident arrested. A Chinese internet dissident, Du Daobin, has been formally arrested on charges of subversion. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition]
9:51:19 AM    

China charges internet dissident [ABC.net.au]

A Chinese internet dissident has been formally arrested and charged with subversion. [more}


9:50:00 AM    

Song Dae Ri's Case Will Be Heard Before The House of Commons in Canada today, (Monday Feb 16) at 2PM. The matter of Mr. Ri (Song Dae Ri, the North Korean former diplomat, now defector, who is struggling to stay in Canada as a refugee - who is clearly facing a death sentence if he is deported to the North - his wife and the mother of their child has already been executed for her defection! - C.B.) is being discussed in the House of Commons between 2 and 2:30pm today in Ottawa. Let's hope this embarrassment will be what it takes for the Minister to finally say DEFINITIVELY that he can stay here with his son. Robert J. Moorhouse, B.A., LL.B. Counsel for the Ri Family... [Free North Korea!]
9:44:54 AM    



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