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The FAO: in Whose Interest?

The Summit of the Food and Agriculture Organisation held in Rome on June 2 and 3, 2008 began with a downsizing in the menu of the delegates’ lunch, but the rest of the summit was characterized by the usual waste: of time.

Symbolically, the deleg read more »
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Repression in Tibet, Behind Closed Doors

Tibet still closed to foreign press despite “unprecedented” post-quake openness in Sichuan

Reporters without borders
Press release
30 May 2008

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the policy of transparency currently being applied to the for read more »
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Earthquake Truth Beginning to See the Light

As we have already pointed out, isn’t it a bit hard to believe that Chinese authorities know nothing about such a devastating earthquake?

The only question remaining is this: will the whole truth come to light by accident, or will individuals fr read more »
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The Secret of the Chinese Economy

What is the secret of the Chinese economy?

Often when we try to understand the reason why Chinese goods (shoes, clothes, toys, gadgets…) cost so little, the answers we are given by newspapers and television shows are always the same: i read more »
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"Tiananmen Mothers" Website Blocked in China

Human Rights in China strongly condemns the Chinese government's block of the Tiananmen Mothers' website (http://www.tiananmenmother.org/) within China just hours after its launch on May 28.

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