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		<title>Ministry approves environmental impact report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 06:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A yearlong assessment of the controversial Shuangjiangkou hydropower project in southwestern China has been given approval on Monday, prompting concern among green campaigners and local residents. Despite critics claiming the dam &#8211; on the upper reaches of Dadu River in Sichuan province &#8211; would affect water quality, kill fish and result in several nature reserves being submerged, the Ministry of Environmental Protection gave the assessment the green light. China Guodian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCSC &#8216;too close&#8217; to oversight body</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29142</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 05:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A whistle-blower said Monday that the social supervision committee of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) was not qualified as a third party to monitor the scandal-stricken organization due to financial links and business connections. Zhou Xiaoyun, a whistle-blower who claimed to have insider information, published an article online Monday stating that the supervisory body&#8217;s funds and facilities are provided by the RCSC as its protocol states, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alibaba&#8217;s Ma steps down, turns to NGO</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29098</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 07:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ma Yun, founder of the Alibaba Group, stepped down as CEO of the firm Friday, ending his 14-year reign in the top job of China&#8217;s biggest e-commerce company. Lu Zhaoxi, a veteran of the company who has worked in nearly all of the group&#8217;s divisions since joining in 2000, was announced as Ma&#8217;s successor. Lu, 43, is a former CEO of taobao.com, the country&#8217;s largest consumer-to-consumer online platform. &#8220;I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domestic violence by men &#8216;shocking&#8217;: survey</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29078</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 08:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concepts about masculinity can contribute to abusive behavior An international survey on domestic violence that interviewed more than 2,000 Chinese found that half of male respondents confessed they have physically or sexually abused their wives or girlfriends. James Lang, program coordinator of Partners for Prevention, a regional joint program by four United Nations agencies including the UN Population Fund, said &#8220;some preliminary findings are shocking&#8221;. The survey showed that one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The uncharitable work of charity</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29066</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 08:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Red Cross Society of China, being the largest charity organization in the country, should have led the relief operations in Ya&#8217;an city, Sichuan province, after it was hit by a magnitude-7 earthquake on April 20. But its once lofty credentials seem to have been tarnished beyond repair, and it has become an object of ridicule in public discussions, especially in cyberspace. Immediately after the quake, the Red Cross said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing protest sparked by alleged suicide</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29070</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 08:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of people protested outside a Beijing market building Wednesday, demanding an open investigation into the death of a migrant worker who plummeted from the building on Friday. A large number of policemen, including armed forces and helicopters were sent onsite to dispel the crowd, while police said there was no evidence of foul play in the preliminary investigation, dismissing public speculation that the woman was gang raped and thrown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look into Red Cross Society of China’s alleged misuse of quake zone donations</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29068</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 08:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies celebrated 150 years of humanitarian work around the world on Wednesday, the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) is facing its most serious crisis after coming to the country 109 years ago. On April 15, one month before the fifth anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake, senior RCSC leaders gathered in the southwestern city of Chengdu to review the outcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detention of petitioners denounced</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28980</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 09:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-graft officials vow protection of whistle-blowers from retaliation Officials with China&#8217;s top anti-graft authority expressed firm opposition on Tuesday to the detention of petitioners. Authorities are not allowed to detain petitioners at any level of petition offices and at public venues, said Zhang Shaolong, deputy director of the office of letters and calls of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. It is a legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters clash with police, damage vehicles in Guizhou land dispute</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28917</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 05:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 100 rural residents in Sansui county, Guizhou Province, blocked the construction of a government-subsidized housing property project and attacked local police, damaging five police vehicles on Friday, according to a statement issued by the county government over the weekend. The statement said the project in the county&#8217;s economic development zone involves the expropriation of land that is home to 96 households in Bagong township, and accused residents of making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public demands transparency in plant protests</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28915</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 05:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protests over the weekend against two large petrochemical projects built in close proximity to residential areas in Southwest China&#8217;s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces again sparked questions about the opaque process of environmental impact assessments. Thousands of residents in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, gathered in the city center on Saturday afternoon to oppose a large oil refinery project by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The project, located in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOEs need to look at the bigger picture</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28913</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 05:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all plant relocations are advisable, as they may adversely affect employees and communities. Although in some cases the effects will be temporary and can be internalized by the market over time, this is not the case when a single enterprise is the major economic engine of a city. The relocation of dominant plants has been accelerating over the past decade. For example Foxconn, the electronics manufacturer, has laid off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planting a new legacy</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28989</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 09:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI Roots and Shoots is back in Inner Mongolia working on planting 1 million more trees. Volunteers who have been on previous tree-planting trips say they can see the positive impact the trees make on the environment. Lyu Feiran picks up a shovel. Farmer Gao Zhongmin has lived in Molimiao, an area near Tongliao City in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, since he was born. Working on a tree farm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters clash with police, damage vehicles in Guizhou land dispute</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28898</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 100 rural residents in Sansui county, Guizhou Province, blocked the construction of a government-subsidized housing property project and attacked local police, damaging five police vehicles on Friday, according to a statement issued by the county government over the weekend. The statement said the project in the county&#8217;s economic development zone involves the expropriation of land that is home to 96 households in Bagong township, and accused residents of making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncharitable sentiments</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28896</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our stance is clear, we will not give the money to you and we will make the vote fail today,&#8221; said Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) member Wong Yuk-man during a debate on whether to provide aid to people in the earthquake-stricken area of Ya&#8217;an, Sichuan Province. The 7.0-magnitude quake claimed more than 190 lives, prompting Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung to propose donating HK$100 million ($12.89 million) in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public demands transparency in plant protests</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protests over the weekend against two large petrochemical projects built in close proximity to residential areas in Southwest China&#8217;s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces again sparked questions about the opaque process of environmental impact assessments. Thousands of residents in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, gathered in the city center on Saturday afternoon to oppose a large oil refinery project by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The project, located in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public trust key to environmental disputes</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28890</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 4, residents in Kunming, capital of southwest China&#8217;s Yunnan Province, took to the streets to protest against a Paraxyline (PX) processing plant planned for the Anning Industrial Park. Almost simultaneously, people in Pengzhou, Sichuan Province, appealed against a petrochemical project. After Xiamen citizens successfully drove out a PX plant through protests in 2007, similar environment-related conflicts have occurred in places such as Dalian, Shifang and Nantong. Obviously, these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Justice</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=29093</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 08:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minor offenders in China receive rehabilitation through community service and education For a teenage girl pseudonymed Tian Zi, life took a turn on February 18. On that day, Beijing&#8217;s Xicheng District People&#8217;s Procuratorate announced its decision not to prosecute her and wipe her criminal record. Tian, accused of disorderly conduct, had confessed to picking quarrels and provoking trouble. She earned the pardon because of her good performance during the six-month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Regulator Clamps Down on Internet Rumors</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28874</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities have launched another round of crackdowns on false information spread through the Internet China&#8217;s Internet czar has started a campaign to clean up online rumor mills, weeks after false information was spread through the Internet on the latest strain of avian flu. Individuals identified by authorities as creators of rumors can be detained, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. Two individuals in Guizhou Province were detained for five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebirth of the Red Cross</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28852</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zhao Baige, executive vice-president of the Red Cross Society of China, said at a recent news conference that she will resign if the society fails to change its public image within three years. However, public concerns over its role in the relief efforts after the Lushan earthquake in southwestern Sichuan province, and their increased hesitation to make donations to victims via the Red Cross mean that China&#8217;s largest charity organization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More anger at Red Cross over use of donations</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28850</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Red Cross Society of China caused controversy on Monday when it apologized for using a 2008 donation of 84.72 million yuan ($13.73 million) for different charity projects than those originally agreed upon. The society, the biggest humanitarian organization in the country, said in an online notice that the money donated by more than 100 top Chinese contemporary artists was used on a project called Boai Jiayuan, or &#8220;Homeland Philanthropy&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCSC faces uphill struggle to win back hearts and minds</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28866</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 08:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earthquake that hit Ya&#8217;an, Sichuan Province on April 20, has pushed the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) into the eye of the public opinion storm once again. The latest incident about the Red Cross&#8217; appropriations of fixed donations for other aid programs triggered a new wave of suspicions. The blame on the RCSC is not breaking news. The RCSC is still embarrassingly overshadowed by the 2011 scandal related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds march to oppose battery plant</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28860</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 08:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local residents carrying green ribbons circled the Songjiang district government offices on foot Wednesday afternoon to continue their protest of a lithium ion battery plant planned to be built in the district, the protestors said Wednesday. The protestors numbered in the hundreds, according to pictures and discussion posted Wednesday on a QQ chat group started by the residents. The protest marked the second time Songjiang residents have organized a demonstration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese NGOs reach out to African countries</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28767</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groups give new impetus and direction for people-to-people exchanges in Africa with their community outreach programs, report Meng Jing and Sun Yuanqing. At almost the same time that President Xi Jinping announced during his recent visit to Africa that China will extend a $20 billion credit line to the continent over the next two years, Zhang Ming, a director of the Red Cross Society of China, was busy raising funds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top charitable donor list published</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28803</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A list of China&#8217;s biggest charitable donors was published on Saturday, naming 311 individual benefactors who donated a combined total of nearly 7.1 billion yuan ($1.14 billion) last year. The list, jointly compiled by the China Association of Social Workers and the China Philanthropy Times, both of which are under the administration of the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA), also includes 627 enterprises that donated nearly 9.5 billion yuan last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake reveals shift in charity sector</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28812</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since a 7.0-magnitude quake rocked Sichuan Province on April 20, China&#8217;s private charities have served as an important channel for individual donations. Meanwhile, facing the pressure of public criticism, the country&#8217;s official, government-affiliated charities have taken more initiative in improving transparency and efficiency. On the same day the earthquake shook Ya&#8217;an City, Sichuan Province, the One Foundation, a private charity initiated by kung fu film star Jet Li, took in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disasters put traditional media under more pressure</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28800</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You must have seen the Chinese television journalist who, dressed in full bridal finery complete with a veil, reported the strong earthquake that struck near her town in Sichuan province last week? In a video that went viral on the Internet and appeared on some major international networks as well, Cheng Ying, the journalist, interviewed residents in the streets after the magnitude 7.0 quake shook the nearby Lushan county. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong’s charity comes with concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While donations are being amassed for the victims of the Ya&#8217;an earthquake in Sichuan Province by charity organizations across the nation in the past few days, there are debates in Hong Kong on whether the local government should use public funds for donation. On Wednesday the finance committee of Hong Kong&#8217;s Legislative Council did not approve a HK$100 million donation ($12.88 million) request to help earthquake relief efforts because lawmakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese lawmakers call for laws on eco-compensation</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28702</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s lawmakers on Wednesday called for the introduction of laws on ecological compensation mechanism to improve the country&#8217;s ecological environment. Lu Hao, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People&#8217;s Congress (NPC), said national legislation on ecological compensation is urgently needed. This is because the mechanism, as a key long-term strategy to cope with ecological and environmental problems, entails guidance from the top. Lu made the remarks at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Cross raises 236 million yuan for Lushan</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28697</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) said Wednesday that it has raised donations worth 236 million yuan ($37.8 million) from across the country for Lushan earthquake victims. The RCSC started receiving donations for Lushan on Saturday afternoon, after a 7.0-magnitude quake hit the county in southwest China&#8217;s Sichuan Province, said Wang Haijing, vice chairman of the RCSC, in an interview with Xinhua. The 236 million yuan donated was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsinghua to open program with $300 million donation</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28711</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tsinghua University announced the launch of an international one-year postgraduate program to train potential global leaders in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Sunday. The program, Schwarzman Scholars, is named after financial tycoon Stephen Schwarzman, cofounder of the Blackstone Group, a premier global investment and advisory firm. He personally donated $100 million and will help secure the remaining $200 million in necessary funds. This is by far the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HK people balk at donation plan</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28709</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large majority of Hong Kong residents have opposed the proposal to inject HK$100 million ($12.89 million) into the region&#8217;s disaster relief fund, which will be donated to the quake-hit Sichuan Province, fearing that it might be misused and bringing up the public&#8217;s lack of trust in the government. Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong&#8217;s chief executive, announced the proposal Monday. However, as of late Tuesday, some 92 percent of more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media’s Responsibility in This Era</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28743</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: A media outlet should share the same destiny as the era it lives in. It must be responsible and courageous in recording history. The worst thing would be that people’s view of the era they’re living through is clouded by pretense and lies. When we claim to be media people, what does it mean? It means that we’re not impulsive, not hypocritical, not low-brow and not destructive. 12 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bear bile industry gets bitten by legal action</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28693</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese wildlife activists have resorted to legal action for the first time to try to end the bear bile industry, which has aroused concern due to the alleged ill treatment of bears. Animal rights activists, led by Beijing Fengtai YTAHZ Environmental Institute, a Beijing-based NGO promoting environmental protection, brought a lawsuit against the wildlife authority of Fujian province on April 11, requesting that it revoke the certificate issued to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capital squanders scarce water: NGO</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28576</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carwashes, golf courts, ski slopes and bathing centers continue to threaten the capital&#8217;s already-severe water crisis, according to an NGO report released on Thursday. Beijing has over 5 million cars, more than any other city in China, according to the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau. To keep cars clean given the capital&#8217;s severe pollution and airborne dust, at least 6.5 million cubic meters of water are used every year, mostly tap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less cash from philanthropists seeking &#8216;more effective&#8217; ways</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28562</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DONATIONS from the China&#8217;s philanthropists have fallen for the second year in a row, with the top 100 contributing US$890 million in the past 12 months, according to a list published by the Hurun Report. That was a drop of 44 percent compared to last year and 53 percent lower than 2011, when natural disasters dominated the national agenda. &#8220;Donations are down for the second year running, as Chinese entrepreneurs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School turns away activist’s child after class seizure</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28526</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 10-year-old girl in Anhui Province was seized from her school and has been unable to renew her studies, allegedly due to her father&#8217;s activism. A group of lawyers are providing legal aid to secure her educational rights. Zhang Anni, a fourth grader at the west campus of Hupo Elementary School in Hefei, Anhui Province, has not been allowed to go back to class since Monday after she was seized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor, no education</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28528</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recalling the English words marked on parts or logos of jeans she worked on, Tang Shuxiu, 53, once a model worker at Nanjing Turbine and Electric Machinery Group in Jiangsu Province, never thought her skills at work would one day be of use in a &#8220;reeducation through labor&#8221; center. Tang was put into Jiangsu provincial labor reeducation center for women for a one-year stretch starting from April 6, 2011 after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philanthropists donate less as economy slows</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28514</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donations by China&#8217;s top 100 philanthropists have dropped dramatically for a second year running, according to a report released on Wednesday. The latest Hurun Philanthropy List 2013 — from the Shanghai-based Hurun Report, which documents wealth in China — measured cash or cash-equivalent donations from April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013. It showed a 44 percent fall to $890 million from the previous period, after a 53 percent fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in the Life of a Beijing &#8216;Black Guard&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28435</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Henan native collected his pay and quit his job stopping petitioners from airing their grievances in Beijing. Then he told Caixin how he went about his work After receiving his wages late, a 30-year-old we&#8217;ll call Wang Jie decided to change professions. On March 7, he pressed a fingerprint onto a receipt that read: &#8220;Today I have received settlement of the 12,000 yuan in wages owed to me by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NGOs cautious over new rule</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28404</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Non-governmental organizations have expressed concern over new municipal regulations regarding registration of NGOs, which came into force Monday, as the government has yet to announce specifics of the new rule. Four types of non-governmental organizations can directly register with the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau without finding governmental supervising departments from Monday, Beijing government announced Friday. According to the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau, the four types of NGOs include industrial associations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soil experts inspect pollution in Miyun</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28351</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local environmental NGO took a group of experts Saturday to inspect farmland in Miyun county which was allegedly polluted by a South Korean auto-parts company. NGO Nature University has alleged that KB (Beijing) Autosys, which produces auto parts such as brake pads, has been dumping trash on the farmland, currently owned by Liu Yuying, a 55-year-old Miyun resident. She said the 12.26 hectares of land Daxinzhuang Village Committee leased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food fight</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28248</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Yang Xiaolu, a resident in Beijing, lobbied the local education authorities to order schools in the city to stop using genetically modified (GM) soybean oil three years ago, he never expected the battle would be so hard. Yang and a number of other parents formed a group in 2010 after they found that not only canteens at their children&#8217;s schools but also most other schools and universities in Beijing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New charity for epileptic children</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28206</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A charity program to aid families with epileptic children and to train medical staff in epilepsy treatment was launched in Shanghai today. Funded by Project HOPE, a US-based non-governmental charity organization, the program has chosen ten children&#8217;s hospitals, including Shanghai Children&#8217;s Medical Center, to train pediatricians in epilepsy diagnosis and treatment and to conduct public education. Li Shizhuo, director of the Chinese Epilepsy Association, said the country&#8217;s incidence of epilepsy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product Woes</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28313</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers have little in the way of recourse when their rights are violated. What needs to be done? The direct shift gearbox (DSG) transmission technology and its smooth shifting between gears has long been a bragging point for Volkswagen. What Volkswagen didn&#8217;t anticipate in its highly touted technology was a defect, one that could be fatal. A Shanghai native surnamed Li said he will never forget the day when his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web of charity</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=27804</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To his family and friends, Zhao Zilong is an optimistic 24-year-old man. Hailing from Dongying, Shandong Province, he is known among his friends as a talented singer and dancer. However, Zhao is facing a potentially fatal leukemia diagnosis, which can only be averted if the family raises enough money. It was this tragic news, which the family discovered earlier this year, that led Web users to new forms of online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something fishy with new CSRC org</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=27822</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) recently established a non-profit organization (NPO) aimed at protecting investors&#8217; interests. And to help investors safeguard their legal rights, the CSRC said the organization will purchase shares of listed companies. This move is quite confusing. It indicates that the CSRC cannot protect investors without indirectly becoming a shareholder in listed companies. Obviously, this assumption doesn&#8217;t hold water. Since the CSRC has the authority to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly Green Lamps</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=28062</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Widespread use of fluorescent lamps elicits calls for safe disposal to avoid mercury pollution Zhang Hong is a program director at the Global Village of Beijing, an established environmental NGO. Zhang&#8217;s organization has carried out a program of promoting the replacement of incandescent lamps with energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) since 2006. When Zhang realized that the mercury residue in the &#8220;greener&#8221; fixtures might make a mess of the environment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NGOs given expanded role to play in society</title>
		<link>http://china-wire.org/?p=27746</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHINA pledged yesterday to allow charities, industry associations and other nonprofit groups to play a greater role in society in an acknowledgement of the growing importance of social organizations. Civil Affairs Minister Li Liguo said as part of the Cabinet&#8217;s recently announced restructuring plan, the government will expand the scope of functions it will let social groups fulfill. &#8220;Overall, from now on, the role that our country&#8217;s social organizations will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federation planned for charities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China will set up a national service federation for charity organizations and continue to develop legislation for the sector as it struggles to reach a consensus on several issues, an official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs told a press conference Wednesday at the ongoing legislative session. Dou Yupei, vice minister of civil affairs, said that a national coordinating charity federation will be established to promote self-regulation in the sector. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bigger role of NGOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nongovernmental organizations may play a bigger role in China&#8217;s social and economic issues, but whether they can perform such a role will depend on the establishment of an effective monitoring mechanism and improvements in their operating capabilities. At a news conference held on the sidelines of the ongoing session of the National People&#8217;s Congress, China&#8217;s top legislature, on Wednesday morning, Li Liguo, minister of civil affairs, said his ministry will [...]]]></description>
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