Edge on China
Edge on China is a weekly News commentary program looking in depth at sensitive China issues including human and civil rights abuses, environment and health cover ups, land disputes and protests, corruption, and the growing disparity between the rich and the poor.
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Edge on China: What Happened to all the Recalled Toys?
I cant but wonder what happened to all the toys recalled last year. I remember seeing a Gettys photo of banned toys still on the Chinese shop shelves after the recall date. After reading the article below I notice that Western children have many people checking the safety of their toys, but who is c …
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Edge on China 64 - Headlines from China
Reports by Ming Pao newspaper on the 5th of January, indicate that a metal processing and chemical fertilizer plant in Dushan District was suspected of illegally manufacturing sulphuric acid and that it discharged huge amount of effluents that contained highly toxic arsenic into Duliu Jiang River, w …
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Edge on China: Crowd Control with Chinese Characteristics
Margery Dunn is thinking How would Australians react if told how to behave during a world sporting event? I remember as mature foreign language student getting a free ticket, as do many Chinese students, to attend a soccer match where Xiamen City played another city in a large, local stadium. The hu …
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Edge on China 63 - Headlines from China
This week, 50 year old farmer aquitted after 10 years in Jail, Hong Kong surges toward true democracy, and a Special update on the Chinese performance, Holiday Wonders. Last week a fifty years old farmer, Hao Jinan, from China???s Henan province, left the jail where he was held for nearly 10 years o …
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Asia Cast for Saturday 29th December
External Podcast: Visit Asia-Cast.com to listen In this bulletin AIDS activist detained -Pakistan accuses Al-Qaeda of killing Bhutto and -Hong Kong to elect leader by 2017 Hu Jia, a prominent AIDS and human rights campaigner has been detained by Chinese police accusing him of subversion, in an appa …
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Edge on China: Is This How the ???Rule of Law??? Works in China?
Margery Dunn wonders, after reading the following article, if an unplanned act and the amount of money involved deserved a harsh sentence. Why are the Chinese jailed for long terms for small crimes? Is it because the jails operate intense labor programs that that make money for the officials and jai …
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Edge on China - The Season to be Merry
This time of the year a good time to reflect on our charitable natures. We could sponsor World Vision Children, give to the Flying Doctor service or provide a food hamper to the needy. Then promptly we spend a fortune on gifts and Christmas celebrations and enjoy ourselves. How wonderful to read abo …
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Edge on China 62 - Headlines from China
In this bulletin 63 year old human rights activist to spend 3 years in jail, Taiwanese Vice President condemns organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and up to a million Chinese threaten an Olympic boycott (more)
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The Season to be Merry
This time of the year a good time to reflect on our charitable natures. We could sponsor World Vision Children, give to the Flying Doctor service or provide a food hamper to the needy. Then promptly we spend a fortune on gifts and Christmas celebrations and enjoy ourselves. How wonderful to read abo …
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Edge on China 61 - Headlines from China
This week in the headlines from China, Is Bird flu on the move again?, Teachers forced to buy the daily communist Newspaper, and Reporters without borders banned from China. In Hong Kong a wild heron has tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, prompting authorities to close a bird reserve on th …
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Edge on China - Wealth at Any Cost!
It seems the promise of jobs and wealth has lured the Queensland government into more business with China. Should the Australian leaders look more carefully at the Chinese business ventures in Burma or Zimbabwe to see a careless disregard for environment and workers rights? More to the point how doe …
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Edge on China 60 - Headlines from China
In this episode of Edge on China, toxic chemicals found in Chinese food exports, human to human bird flu transmission fears arise, and China forces Miss Tibet out of beauty pageant. In the latest scare over the safety of Chinese exports, one of China???s largest and most well known food companies ha …
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Edge on China - Memories of Teaching in Shanghai
Should Australian academics here take off their rose tinted glasses when courting student and university research exchanges? Exactly who are the staff in Australian based Confucius Institutes? As an exchange English teacher I worked only in that role in China, but always had an extra body in my clas …
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Edge on China - How Secure is Your Computer?
Margery Dunn asks the Australian public if we should worry about internet security, whether it be personal or business data. Those bypassing firewalls and other barriers can be traced it seems, but can our laws make lawbreakers from other countries accountable? Chinese Govt hacking UK businesses The …
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Edge on China 59 - Headlines from China
Yuan Wei-Jing, the wife of the blind human rights activist Chen Guang-Cheng, wrote an open letter to the state heads on the twenty-second of November. She shared her consent of Hu and Wen to be concerned with the life of the common people and to run the country by law. Yet, the officials at the gras …
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Edge on China 58 - Headlines from China
In this bulletin German State television exposes Organ trade, Chinese espionage poses great risk to US technology, and Beijing Olympics to allow only one bible per person but a total ban on Falun Gong books. On the 13th of November, Channel Two of the German State Television exposed an insider???s s …
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Edge on China - China delegation aims to pave way for NSW students
My experiences of study in a Nanjing university and a Xiamen university was of learning straight from the textbook and being expected to pay highly inflated student fees and very high accommodation costs. The young Australian students learnt more from their Chinese friendships and local jaunts than …
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Edge on China 57 - Special Edition; Human Rights Torch Relay graces Queensland
The Human rights torch relay made its trip around the rest of Queensland after visiting Brisbane, touching down in the Sunshine Coast, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns, and the Gold Coast. The support from local Politicians, NGOs, and human rights groups was enormous. In this show hear speeches from Joe N …
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Edge on China 56 - Headlines from China
This week the top headlines include, Chinese consulate tries in vain to thwart Human Rights Torch Relay in Brisbane Australia, Chinese Human rights Lawyer Gao ZhiSheng is heard from for the first time since his abduction, and startling open letter calling for the end to the persecution of Falun Gon …
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Edge on China 55 - Special Edition; Human Rights Torch Relay arrives in Sydney Australia.
The Human Rights Torch Relay arrived in Sydney, for the Australian leg of its journey. A day of activity surrounded the torchs arrival as it draws attention to the Chinese communist paritys gross human rights abuses in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Join us for an interview with Manly May …
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