Archive for May, 2011

Remembering Sichuan Earthquake 3 Years Later

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Quake Baby–Chen Xingwen, together with her Mother and Auntie


Chen Xingwen returning home from Kindergarten in Menishan, Sichuan Province

Chen turns 3 tomorrow, she was the first child born in a Temporary Delivery Room following the catastrophic Sichuan Earthquake 12 May, 2008


Gala Event–3rd Anniversary of Sichuan Earthquake held in Beijing on Wednesday

On the 05 February, 2010 I archived here links to some of my posts subsequent to the devastating Sichuan Earthquake, three years ago today which claimed the lives of more than 19,000 children.

Related: Three Years After Wenchuan Earthquake –China Daily

China Opens Quake Museum to Mourn 80,000 Dead in 2008 Earthquake –Sina

Information Vital for Quake Response –China Daily

Chinese Teenage Boy & Parents Criticized by Netizens for Grandiose Obsession in Politics

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Obama and Huang Yibo

Chinese Boy and his parents are harshly criticized by Netizens for his overachieving behavior and smug pretentious photographs.

More here from China Smack

Related: 13 Year Old Boy Gains Popularity for his Precocious Zeal in Politics –China Smack

China Communist Party Blames United States For It’s Unrest

Monday, May 9th, 2011


China “Jasmine Revolution” Activists Clash with Police in Beijing

Beijing has waged its harshest crackdown on speech in years, hundreds of Chinese have been arrested, imprisoned, beaten, interrogated, humiliated and put under house arrest.

China has for years guarded against (evil) Western influences, including blocking social media sites as Twitter and Facebook but these restrictions have intensified since the Middle East and Northern Africa revolts began.

The crackdown on freedom of speech and activism continues in China and is largely aimed at the United States another other foreign (evil) influences as China Digital Times reports.

Related: Chinese Communist Party Blames Rising Fuel Prices on Western Media

China blames United States for Souring Food Prices –Swedish Wire

China Police Detain Female Petitioner, Strips Off Her Clothes Leaving Her Naked In Front Of Her Children To Intimidate Others

Thursday, May 5th, 2011


China, Tiananmen Square: A Petitioner detained by Police sits in a van. Authorities have clamped down on dissent, rounding up human rights and democracy activists.

On the 13 April, I wrote here that Qiang Wei, a 21 year old former art student of Ai Weiwei who disappeared in Beijing, was sentenced by the Chinese Communist Party to 2 years in a reeducation labor camp for participating in pro-democracy Jasmine Revolution protests in February.

For Xu Jincui, it was horrifying when Police ripped off her clothes in front of her children and left her naked during her visit to the State Bureau of Letters and Calls but the humiliation did not stop there as the local division of the Bureau, shamelessly used her experience to intimidate other petitioners.

Such conduct is now a tool used to detain those seeking justice and achieve so called “Social Stability” in China.

More here from Epoch Times

Related: Two Journalists Missing, Feared Detained –China Digital Times

Sichuan Earthquake 3rd Anniversary Post Disaster Reconstruction

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011


Love on the Earthquake Site

Ghost Town–New Look for the Reconstruction of Beichuan

On the 05 February, 2010 I archived here links to some of my posts subsequent to the catastrophic Sichuan Earthquake which claimed the lives of more than 19,000 children

Wenchuan 3rd Anniversary Post Disaster Reconstruction See Changes –China Radio Network

China Latest Food Scare: Dirt For Pepper

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

China Dirt for Pepper –Qzone QQ.com

Inedible substances continue to make their way into China’s food with disturbing frequency on the 25 April, I wrote here that China’s latest cancer causing food scare was Tainted Bean Sprouts.

Now comes news from China Radio Network that markets have been found, passing off mixtures of dirt and flour as black pepper.

More here from China Real Time Report –Wall Street Journal

Coca-Cola Not Ready to Stop Using Industrial Chemical in Food and Beverage Containers Harmful to Infants and Children

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Coca-Cola’s top executives said last week, that it would be premature to stop using Bisphenol A (BPA) an industrial chemical, that has been present in many hard plastic bottles including metal based food and beverage cans since the 1960’s—the Food & Drug Administration shares the perspective of the Natl Toxicology Program, that recent studies provide reason for some concern that the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior and prostate gland of fetuses, infants and children.

BPA has been banned in Canadian Baby Bottles according to USA Today likewise the City of Chicago, Suffolk County NY, Connecticut, Massachusetts have banned BPA from food containers, other states including California, New Mexico, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vermont have pending legislation to ban the chemical additive.

More here The Independent UK

H/T: China News

China, Wuhan Iron & Steel Company Employee Xu Wu, Complains About Back Wages Confined To Mental Hospital

Monday, May 2nd, 2011


Xu Wu Standing in Front of Bullet Train after Escaping from Mental Hospital

Xu Wu, once an employee of a steel company in Wuhan, Hubei Province, had been petitioning Beijing attempting but failing to get satisfaction in a financial dispute, between the company where he had been employed, when he was abducted and confined in a mental hospital being mistreated for 4 years—Eight days after he escaped from the asylum, Xu was arrested thousands of miles from his home and has been thrown back into the asylum without explanation.

Xu Wu is a Wuhan native and had worked as a Firefighter for Wuhan Iron & Steel Co before 2004 believing that he was a victim of unequal pay he filed suit to collect back wages, while the company wanted to settle with Xu, he refused their offer because he wanted to prevail in court with dignity.

After Xu’s complaint was dismissed, he appealed–on a day in December, 2006 the moment he stepped out of Peking University, he was arrested by Wuhan Police and escorted back to the local public security office. Police convinced Xu that if he claimed that he suffered from a mental illness, that he would be released, however his compliance landed him in a mental hospital affiliated with Wuhan Iron & Steel Co

More here from Ministry of Tofu

Related: Chinese Whistleblower Wronged and Detained for 14 Years in Mental Hospital

China Mental Hospital Horror–Elderly Patient Beaten to Death –Video in Chinese

China Mental Hospital Horror –Epoch Times

Why China’s Crackdown of Dissidents is Selective –China Digital Times

Silencing of China’s Human Rights Lawyers –Epoch Times