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News from China with a focus on human rights and religious liberty

Saturday, January 10, 2004

NORTH KOREANS STILL FLEE DESPITE INCREASED SECURITY (RFA)
Desperation is driving North Koreans to make the increasingly hazardous journey across the border to China despite an intensifying crackdown on defectors in the border area, RFA's Korean service reports.
7:30:46 AM

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NORTH KOREAN WOMEN RAPED, SOLD IN CHINA (RFA)

Women who make the dangerous journey across the border from North Korea to China as defectors are routinely raped and even sold when they arrive, RFA's Korean service reports.

7:27:32 AM

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Beijing Leaders' Populist Touch Is Not Being Felt by Rural Poor. China's new leaders are finding that the Communist Party and government apparatus sometimes pay only lip service to their demands. By Joseph Kahn. [New York Times: International]
7:11:27 AM

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China Uses New Approach in SARS Fight. Last year, when what would become SARS first appeared, you couldn't pry information loose from China's secretive government. Now, as the virus edges back into the spotlight, the country's leadership has a different message: Operators are standing by. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
7:09:06 AM

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