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More than 500 people joined Pu in signing the document. Bao Tong, a deputy to Communist Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who was purged from the government for his support of the 1989 pro-democracy protesters, is the most prominent former official on the list. It also includes activists such as Liu Xiaobo and Ding Zilin, who co-founded the Tiananmen Mothers group after her teenage son was killed in the 1989 crackdown. Several prominent lawyers and writers who are actively working and publishing also signed, giving Charter 08 more clout than it would carry if it were the work...
Produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education, this survey is heavily weighted towards the natural sciences with less emphasis on the humanities. Independent observers have claimed that the rankings have been impossible to duplicate accurately...
...Tong said he hopes to attract international attention to the impending onslaught of what he called “environmental refugees,” not only for the sake of his own people, but also because he views Kiribati’s situation as a precursor to the larger problems to come...
...While we of small low lying islands face the most disastrous consequences of climate change, no country, big or small, high or low lying, will be untouched,” Tong said. “Whatever we do now, countries like us will be affected. But it is important to do something for the survival of others who will be next...
...close off 11 percent of our sea area because we knew we were going underwater,” Tong explained. “It was an opportunity to make that last stand. It was our contribution to humanity...