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Number of Chinese coal miners trapped underground in the coastal province of Shandong since Aug. 17, when a burst river dike flooded two shafts...
...balmy Sunday recently found Yuan Weijing and her two-year-old daughter in the apartment he has hardly left since arriving in Beijing on July 6. Yuan, 30, a forthright homemaker from the coastal province of Shandong, won't venture out for fear of being kidnapped. As paranoid as that might sound, in Yuan's case it is a well-founded concern. Her husband, Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer and activist, was himself kidnapped by policemen from his native Shandong province when he visited Beijing in June of 2005. Chen, who has been blind since birth, is now serving a four...
...Chen Guangcheng in his trial last year on what would under other circumstances be considered the bizarre charges of damaging property and attempting to organize a crowd to obstruct traffic. In fact, Chen's crime seems to have been that he embarrassed local officials in his home province of Shandong...
...Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its 'one-child' policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local bureaucrats, Chen believed he could persuade higher-level officials to step in and stop them." Chen was at least partly successful: apparently due to his efforts, the state family planning commission issued a statement calling some of the activities...
...earlier while reporting a story about flawed village elections in China. Beijing had been touting the success of grassroots democracy, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter had lauded the balloting. But many of the polls didn't result in true change. In Qixia, the area in eastern China's Shandong province from where my visitors hailed, 57 village chiefs were elected in 1999; local Communist Party secretaries refused to hand over power, however. After spending two years locked out of their own offices, the 57 quit en masse. Soon after, a Qixia official told TIME the situation was "completely resolved...