Archive for the '2008 Beijing Olympics' Category

Lawyers call for government to bare some blame for recent police killings

Posted by Dennis Wu on Friday, October 24th, 2008
 
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With the recent trial of Jia Yang for the killing of six police officers, and his subsequent death sentence, there does not seem to be any lessoning of his status as a local people’s hero. Since the murders, thousands upon thousands of ordinary Chinese citizens have been holding Jia as a hero and even many [...]

Olympic stadium commanders corrupt actions exposed

Posted by Chris Thomas on Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Former Beijing vice Mayor Liu Zhihua was charged with using his authority to contract a project to his mistress Wang Jianrui, and received an illegal profit equivalent to RMB 600 million yuan. A public hearing will be on the 14th.

“Olympic milk” found to be toxic

Posted by Chris Thomas on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

“Hello SOH listeners ! We will be narrating the two top stories of each day on ICT. We are driving toward getting our ICT having even more up to date news for you to see each day and have cut down the amount of narrated stories to make way for the process of having more [...]

Li Jinping arrested for demonstrating at Zhongnanhai

Posted by Daniel Tang on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

On the eve of the 17th Convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party, a Beijing Human Rights Defender Li Jinping went to the Xinhua Gate at Zhongnanhai displaying banners calling for a rehabilitation for the former General Secretary of Chinese Communist Party Zhao Ziyang, who was arrested by police. [...]

CCP tramples the rights of the disabled.

Posted by Daniel Tang on Monday, September 29th, 2008
 
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