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...HUA NING, program director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, on the 11 rare Siberian tigers that starved to death at a Shenyang zoo; three more are in critical condition...
...Hua Foundation, a U.S.-based human-rights group, reported that Chinese officials had said Gao was working in China's far western Xinjiang region. Gao told another lawyer, Teng Biao, during a brief phone conversation on Sunday that he had indeed been in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi. "He said that he had been free for six months. But if that was true, why hasn't he contacted anyone, including his family, since then? I find that suspicious," says Teng...
professors who belong to departments ranging from History to Anthropology. The Committee also brought in two visiting professors: Denise Khor, a recent Ph.D. from UC San Diego and Hua Hsu, a professor at Vassar College and author of “The End of White America?”, the cover story for The Atlantic Monthly in early 2009. Although both visiting scholars are technically based in other departments—History and English, respectively—their courses are directed toward the curriculum of the secondary field...
...year anniversary of his disappearance, which was presumably at the hands of state security officers. "This series of repression against dissent and activism ... I don't know if it's coincidence or reflective of a deeper meaning," says Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based researcher for the Dui Hua Foundation, a human-rights group. "Certainly looking at it from the outside, at case after case of heavy sentences being handed down for things that should be constitutionally protected rights, it's hard to come away from this and not see a hardening line." (See pictures of the making of modern...
...Rosenzweig says the resumption of high court reviews is "probably the biggest area of progress in China in the past few years." According to a Dui Hua Foundation estimate, the number of prisoners executed annually may have fallen by as much as half from the 10,000 cited by a National People's Congress delegate in 2004. Even with such a decline, China still puts to death more people than the rest of the world combined - about 70% of the global total in 2008, according to Amnesty International...