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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Greenpeace Director To Speak On Economic Crisis
Please join us as Dr Gerd Liepold, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, speaks on two major issues facing the world today: the economy, and global warming. Dr Liepold argues that the current economic crisis provides an unprecedented opportunity to make investments on clever energy production and use in a way that creates jobs, rebuilds critical [...]
German Reporter Barred From Tibetan Area In Sichuan
LOCATION: Sichuan Province, border of the Tibetan Autonomous Region Ganzi at Ershanlang tunnel TYPE OF INCIDENT: Intimidation, barred from public space REPORTING TOPIC: Tibetan unrest REPORTER/ORGANIZATION/NATIONALITY: Marcel Grzanna, Aachener Zeitung, German DESCRIPTION: When we arrived at the police-checkpoint our passports were confiscated and we were forced to wait more than an hour for 12 county [...]
Tags: Sichuan
Reporter Barred from Tibetan Area, Staff Intimidated
DATE: Mar. 20, 2009 LOCATION: Sichuan Province, border of the Tibetan Autonomous Region Ganzi at Ershanlang tunnel TYPE OF INCIDENT: Intimidation of staff, barred from public space REPORTING TOPIC: Tibetan unrest ORGANIZATION/NATIONALITY: Marcel Grzanna, Aachener Zeitung, German “Officials grasped our assistant by the arm and one heavy-armed officer from the special anti-riot squad put his [...]
Tags: Sichuan
Free Journalists Held By North Korea
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China calls for the release of two U.S. journalists seized by North Korean border guards on Thursday. Laura Ling and Euna Lee of San Francisco-based Current TV were detained while they were filming along the Chinese-North Korean border. Their current whereabouts are unknown. The FCCC calls on the government in [...]
OECD Secretary-General To Speak On Global Economy
We are honored to host Angel Gurría, the Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, during his trip to Beijing to launch new OECD reports on China. Secretary-General Gurría will speak on China, the global economy and the economic crisis. Accompanying him are the authors of three reports on China — an investment [...]
