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News from China with a focus on human rights and religious liberty
Saturday, July 17, 2004

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]
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China simulates Taiwan invasion. Beijing holds annual drills on the island of Dongshan amid increasingly tense relations with Taiwan. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition]
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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]
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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]
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China acts to protect baby girls. China says it will intensify its efforts to protect girls and address the gender imbalance of newborn babies. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition]
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US cuts UN funds in abortion row. The State Department says it is withholding $34m to the UN Population Fund in an ongoing row over abortion in China. [BBC News | Asia-Pacific | World Edition]
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Colin Powell, 'we have continuously called on China to end its program of coercive abortion' Medical Science News Jul 17 2004 11:35AM GMT [Moreover - China news]
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