#213 european rights prize

Hu Jia, a prominent activist and currently serving jail sentence from China apparently won the European rights prize. What does this prize stand for?
Will this prize given to Hu Jia encourage more dissent in China?
When people are given the housing and food, will they rise up against the leadership of a country?
Will any nation in Europe [...]

#199 domestic maids pregnant?

I read this interesting news today:
Maternity perks urged for maids
The proposed changes to the Employment Act may see more local workers coming under its umbrella, but two non—government organisations (NGOs) want the protection extended to domestic workers too — including the provision of the latest maternity benefits….
Domestic workers here, most of whom are women, number [...]

#157 can man control weather?

There is constant vigilance and scrutiny these days about pollution and the weather on the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing…will the pollution hinder or bring some side-effects on the health of the athletes?
What is the media doing by constantly harping upon whether China is able to clean up the air for the Games?
Is China not doing her level-best [...]

#139 release of political prisoners

According to some news sources, Congressmen Frank R Wolf and Chris Smith went to Beijing to lobby release of 734 (?) political prisoners under the human rights banner.  
Are these congressmen willing to absorb these political prisoners to America — that is, to offer these political asylum to their country?
What are some implications in releasing these political prisoners? [...]

#138

Mongolia is in a confused state – some Mongolians took to protest allegating that votes were rigged. Does freedom means protest and destruction of premises and getting one another arrested – in the name of human rights which the world is hawking on China’s human rights issue?
If Mongolians do not appreciate freedom, will there be elections in future? Will the world point a finger [...]

#113

Most interesting! I received this sms on the recent happenings in China — when adding the single numerics, they all add up to 08.

On Jan 25, the snowstorm preventing many from returning home for family reunion at the Spring festival celebration – mother nature from the sky (天灾）:   1+2+5= 8
Mar 14, human rights groups gathered in protest about Tibet during the Olympic Torch Relay – man [...]

#101 suffering silently

Yesterday, parents left inheritance for their children.
Today, are children left with debts of their parents? And their own?
I know of marriages where one spouse has to service loans for the other. Will love help overcome the problem? Or will this increase the rate of divorce?
In the midst of high inflation and food/fuel crises; credit crunch and [...]

#85

I read this from BBC international news online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7343060.stm
(I do not know if I’m allowed to link  this…if I’m violating, can someone let me know. Thank you.)
During the late 1970s, I’d met Africans who spoke immaculate Chinese as these ones received scholarships to study in China. I was told then that China had some form of ties with Africa [...]

#83 sexual violence

I heard this shocking story over the BBC international radio station, a followup of last year’s reporting – a Congolese woman was raped by 19 men and she saw her entire family members killed before her eyes. They even made her killed her baby by ‘pulling the string’ to strangle the baby to death.
Today she is survived with [...]

#77

In light of the drama of Torch Relay and human rights issue calling for boycott to the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, I cannot help reflecting on this story in the Christian Bible in John’s Gospel chapter 8:1-11
Jesus went to Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around [...]