On August 14, 2011, about 12,000 protesters in Dalian went into the streets to demand that a chemical plant be moved away from their city. Complaints against the project began when it started operations two years ago. The protesters were afraid that flood waters could cause harmful chemicals to come from the plant after a [...]
September 30, 2011 /
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The Chinese government does not like its people to protest government actions. Recently, the government put down the “Jasmine Revolution” and the Shanghai truck driver’s strike. Now China’s electric companies are protesting. China’s government economic planners tell the electric companies how much electricity to produce. The Chinese electric companies are now refusing to produce as [...]
June 3, 2011 |
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Three explosions occurred in the morning of May 26 in Fuzhou city, Jiangxi province, China. First reports say a car exploded outside the prosecutor’s office at around 9:18 AM. A second explosion occurred in the district government building around 10 minutes later, and the third explosion happened outside the Linchuan District Food and Drug Administration [...]
June 2, 2011 |
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The Associated Press news reporters found some of the people who organized the “Jasmine Revolution” events in China. This is some of the information they got from one of those people, a 22 year-old computer science student in Seoul, Korea. The group is a network of 20 highly educated, young Chinese. There are eight members [...]
April 24, 2011 |
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A “house church” called Shouwang or Lighthouse collected $4 million from its 1000 members to buy a building to meet in. The Chinese government forced it out of the building it had purchased. House churches are not legal in China but the government has not taken action against them because these churches have not created [...]
April 24, 2011 |
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