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• China Detains Dad of Baby Sickened by Tainted Milk

  Parents of the babies sickened by melamine in the Chinese tainted milk scandal shot down a $160 million payout, and now they're being punished. Zhao Lianhai, organizer of a parents' news conference slated for yesterday, was picked up by the Chinese government and detained.  The families' lawyer, Li Fangping, says the government did it just to keep the parents from talking. Read More... Posted Jan 03 2009, 02:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: China, recall, formula, Jeanne Sager, chinese government, tainted formula, melamine, tainted milk, milk scandal

• Elderly Chinese Women Sentenced to "Re-Education"

  Chinese authorities have sentenced two elderly women to a year of “re-education” through labor because they repeatedly sought permits to protest in one of the official Olympic protest sites—areas that Chinese authorities designated as the only places where protests were allowed during the Olympic games, but which have yet to see a single protest. The women, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying, are 77 and 79. Read More... Posted Aug 20 2008, 07:17 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: China, punishment, protest, labor, homes, olympics, sentence, beijing, chinese government, disappeared, inadequate compensation, applicant, demolish, re-education, permit, elderly women, labor camps, wang xiuying, wu dianyuan

• Chinese Parents Believe Quake Deaths Were Avoidable

  Perhaps the only thing worse than losing is a child is the sense that that loss could have been prevented. This is the situation facing thousands of Chinese parents who believe that their children would have survived the massive May 12 earthquake if it had not been for the shoddy construction of school buildings.  Read More... Posted May 21 2008, 03:15 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: China, schools, earthquake, chinese government, bereaved parents, collapsed schools, shoddy construction, substandard school buildings, schoolchildren killed, cost cutting, school buildings, public protests, may 12 quake, sichuan, chinese earthquake