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Thursday, April 22, 2004

Vietnam: Open Central Highlands to International Observers. Human Rights Watch Apr 22 2004 8:05PM GMT [Moreover - Human rights news]
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North Korea asks China for help after rail blast (Reuters). BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea has asked China for help in rescue operations after two fuel-laden trains collided and exploded near the border, killing up to 3,000 people, an official said on Friday. [Google World]
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N. Korea Trains Collide, Igniting Blast. Two fuel trains collided at a North Korean railroad station near the Chinese border Thursday, igniting a deafening explosion that rained debris for more than 10 miles around, South Korean media said. As many as 3,000 people might have been killed or injured, according to the reports. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
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Cameras eye Shanghai web users. Shanghai installs video cameras in its internet cafes as part of a crackdown on web use. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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N Korean trains explode in crash. Overseas officials confirm a massive blast feared to have killed and injured thousands, but North Korea stays silent. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition]
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China Reports Suspected Case of SARS in Beijing. A nurse in Beijing was hospitalized with a suspected case of SARS and five other people were isolated with fevers. By Jim Yardley. [New York Times: International]
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Products Worldwide Made by Falun Gong Slave Labor
Labor Camps Reduce Production Costs to Shore up Chinese Exports
NEW YORK (FDI) - Mr. Wang Jiangping is handicapped and can’t knit as fast as the others. It’s almost 2:00 a.m. and the Division Six prisoners have been working since dawn. They have to meet the deadline. His fellow Falun Gong practitioners nod off only to be wakened by guards stabbing them with scissors. The guards throw bricks at his chest. The Changji Labor Camp has to meet Tianshan Wooltex’s quota of Kashmir sweaters, or the guards won’t get their bonus. The Chinese "reform through labor" camps have become privatized. They are small enterprises that sign contracts with big companies and export products to overseas shopping malls. It is a place where torturers get rich, and where Falun Gong practitioners slave to pay for the purchase of the electric batons that will shock them if they slow down. [Read full story]

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More NLD activists flee Burma due to increasing repressions [Democratic Voice of Burma]

Ko Naing Zaw Win, the joint secretary of the organising committee of Kachin State National League for Democracy (NLD) and another NLD member fled to the Thai-Burma border on 20 April because it was impossible for them to continue their political activities inside Burma.

Ko Naing Zaw Win was arrested and detained three times by Burma’s military junta for his active role in the NLD from 1990 to the time of his flight. According to him, the military intelligence (MI) agents have been restricting and watching the movements of the activists to such and extent that they are unable to take part in their political activities freely as promised by the junta to the outside world.

He added that he fled the country with the hope of continuing his political activities and the struggles for democracy and human right from abroad.

Ko Naing Zaw Win was last arrested in June 2003 and detained for more than seven months for helping to organise Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s trip to the Kachin State before she and her supporters were brutally attacked by the junta sponsored thugs at Dipeyin in upper Burma on 30 May.


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VIETNAM: Government persecution of Mennonites and Buddhists [asianews.it]
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CHENEY SPEECH CENSORED IN CHINA’S OFFICIAL MEDIA [RFA]
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NEPAL: Around 300 journalists arrested in past three days [RSF]
19 April 2004 - Police arrested more than 300 journalists and injured more than a dozen others as they covered pro-democracy demonstrations or demonstrated for press freedom. Reporters Without Borders called on the prime minister to launch an investigation into the violence and to punish the police officers responsible.

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UPDATE (Nepal): Continued arrests and detentions of demonstrators, bystanders and journalists [Asian Human Rights Commission website]
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Report: Shanghai Will Monitor Internet. Authorities are installing video cameras and high-tech software in Shanghai's Internet cafes and bars to make sure customers don't look at forbidden Web sites, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
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China finds suspected SARS patient in Beijing (Channel News Asia). BEIJING : China has detected a suspected case of the respiratory disease SARS in the capital Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency cited the Ministry of Health announcing Thursday. [Google World]
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