NTD China News, January 1, 2013: New Year Brings Protest Against Hong Kong Chief Executive
More than 10,000 people took to the streets in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day to call for the resignation of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, and universal suffrage for the Hong Kong public.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has continued his rhetoric against corruption. New announcements were made on Monnday forbidding individuals from giving more than 10,000 yuan to officials.
Japan has released a fishing crew from China caught illegally coral fishing in Japanese waters.
Chinese state-run media has use the gang rape attack in India as a reason to discourage democracy.
Manufacturing in China has grown for the third month in December, with the latest PMI figure coming in at 50.6.
Shen Yun Performing Arts capped off 2012 for audiences in Escondido, CA with their final performance in the city on Monday night
An Australian reporter working for the New York Times has been kicked out of China after being denied a renewal of his media visa.
Chris Buckley had been working in China for the past 15 years. Australia-based Fairfax Media says he does not know why his visa was denied.
Many suspect it was because of Buckley’s connection to the New York Times. He joined the Time in October, shortly before it published an exposé on the wealth of Wen Jiabao’s family.
The Chinese regime blocked the Times’ websites in China after that report.
Strangely David Barboza, the Time’s reporter who wrote the article on Wen is still in China. He had no problems renewing his media visa.
Buckley has reported on politics, rural issues and human rights during his time in China.
His expulsion follows that of another foreign report, Melissa Chan. She worked for Al Jazeera’s English branch in China. Chan wrote several stories on China’s black jails, these are extralegal detention centers used to hold people without trial.
