China: Dark days for China's liberals
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Rebecca MacKinnon looks into the political implications of the repression of Gongmeng and the arrest of human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong in China.
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Rebecca MacKinnon looks into the political implications of the repression of Gongmeng and the arrest of human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong in China.
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The Philippine government has recently launched the Budget ng Bayan website to promote transparency and good governance in the country. Budget documents and state expenditures are uploaded in the site.
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Bersih, an election reform movement in Malaysia, identifies key reforms that the government can implement to ensure free and fair access to media during elections
David Wertime from the Tea Leaf Nation blogs about a serial rape crime committed by a local official in Henan province who had raped “nearly one hundred” young girls. So far the local police have identified a doze victims the youngest was born in 2001.
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a feature story showing German photographer Michael Wolf's collection of “Architecture of Density” which reflects the living condition of ordinary Hong Kong people in high-rises.
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