2011年12月24日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


In China, a daring few challenge one-child limit (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 05:04 AM PST

In this Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 photo, Wu Weiping, 35, watches her daughter Wang Yile, 4, right, and her son Wu Yixiao, 2, play at home in Zhuji, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Chinese today are free to choose where they live and work and who they want to marry, but when it comes to having kids, the state says the majority must stop at one. China's controversial population-curbing measure is facing a small but increasingly defiant community of parents who have risked their jobs, savings and physical safety to have a forbidden second child. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - Seven months pregnant, Wu Weiping sneaked out early in the morning carrying a shoulder bag with some clothes, her laptop and a knife.


Report: Chinese activist charged with subversion (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 03:41 AM PST

AP - A veteran Chinese activist has been charged with subversion, a human rights group said Saturday, after another dissident was jailed for nine years in a crackdown aimed at preventing Arab Spring-style democratic uprisings.

Chinese villagers demand release of detainees (AP)

Posted: 24 Dec 2011 01:42 AM PST

Villagers gather to protest Friday Dec. 23, 2011 in Haimen, China. Riot police in the southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas at protesters Friday on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to a demonstrator's account and TV footage. A crowd of protesters were locked in a standoff with police near the entrance to a highway in the town of Haimen, demanding authorities release an unknown number of demonstrators, a man surnamed Lin told The Associated Press. (AP Photo)AP - Protesters gathered Saturday outside a town hall in southern China to appeal for the release of people detained during demonstrations over a planned power plant expansion, a witness said.


bnzv