 |
 |
Saturday, July 17, 2004 |
Vietnam: dissident on trial. Yet another elderly dissident, an Amnesty International member, is to be brought to trial next week in Ho Chi Minh City. Dr Nguyen Dan Que, 62, a distinguished doctor, former hospital director and long-standing human rights activist, will be tried... [Human Rights News & Actions]
. 7:36:36 PM 
|
|
US withholds $34m for UN. THE United States is to withhold $34 million in assistance to the UN Population Fund because it believes the fund helped China manage programmes that involved forced abortions, Secretary of State Colin Powell said. [Scotsman.com News - International]
. 7:33:23 PM
|
|
John 1:1-3. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. [English Standard Version Bible Daily Verse]
. 10:36:42 AM
|
|
Revolution on Line One?. What happens when a hot new marketing and communications technology runs smack into a repressive political regime? Government censorship, of course. [China - Topix.net]
. 10:33:11 AM
|
|
Sound bite censorship. In a move to further restrict the free flow of information CCTV, the Chinese state broadcaster, appears to be increasingly adopting a policy of selective dubbing and reinterpretation in an effort to control the way that international news is received by the people rather than by issue a blanket restriction. CCTV9, the Chinese national English language service has begun extensively overdubbing English language press reports issued by the UN and other international agencies and news services, w [Angry Chinese Blogger]
. 10:30:07 AM
|
|
© 2004 Radio Free China
Last Update: 7/31/2004; 11:51:19 PM
|
|
|
