AsiaCast

Asia Cast Tuesday 21st August

On the fourteenth of August Shi Ruoping, Li Changyu, Sun Wenguang, Hu Fengdazzle, Teng Biao and Wang Yi, university scholars in China wrote an open letter to the communist regime demanding human rights compliance before the 2008 Olympics.They subsequently presented an eightfold proposal to the Chinese government for the improvement of human rights in China. They asked the government to release political and religious prisoners, abolish the labor-camp system in China, end newspaper censorship, abolish the violent “one-child” policy, review cases of injustice, resolutely implement the Property Rights Law, stop depriving the Chinese people of the right to legally leave and enter China and abolish torture.

They stated that if the Chinese government does not resolve all the forgoing problems, all law-abiding people in China and throughout the world must boycott the Beijing Olympics.

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Attorney Jeffrey Killino, whose lawsuit helped lead to a recall of defective Chinese-made tires, filed a lawsuit against Mattel Incorporated on Monday due to the recent recalls of toys that might have contained excessive amounts of lead paint, and is seeking class action status.

Killino said in a statement the suit is aimed at forcing the world’s largest toy maker to pay for the testing of children who might have gotten lead poisoning from the toys, which were made in China.

Last week, Mattel recalled four-hundred and thirty-six thousand die-cast toy cars from its “Cars” line because they may have contained excessive amounts of lead, which can cause brain damage in children.

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In China the most hit area in the wide-ranged price rising has been realty. Apart from soaring prices in realty, the price rise covers daily consumables like pork, cooking oil, coal, electricity, gas and water rates, leaving many families in agony of poverty.

A report by China media disclosed the official figures by the State statistics Bureau that Consumers Price Index (CPI) as a critical index of inflation shows that it had broken its threshold as CPI has continued to climb in the past twenty-nine months.

By the thirteenth of August, China State Statistics Bureau announced CPI in July reached 5.6%, the peak in the past decade.

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A thousand workers at Chongqing Number One Textile Factory initiated a joint petition on the seventeenth of August, protesting against the corrupt officials and defending their rights to live.

The workers in the protest disclosed that the corrupt officials embezzled the enterprise¡¯s capital, which lead to the bankruptcy of the factory in a deficit of five-hundred million RMB.

Under pressure, the factory authority arrested six corrupt cadres of middle ranks, but soon released three. This has inspired the workers to further defend their rights.

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The Global Chinese Vocal Music Contest to be hosted by New Tang Dynasty Television in October has been vilified by the Communist regime that used a so-called Anti-Cult Association who issued articles in China News Services to slander the contest.

The spokesperson, Gao Da-Wei, of the Global Quit the Communist Party Service Centre expressed that this is the Communist Parties last fit of convulsion before its total demise, for they fear being exposed and are frightened to be eliminated.

No matter how the C.C.P resorts to defame, slander or vilify the contest, it can only advocate the activity and expose itself and its vile nature on the contrary to more people.

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On the nineteenth of August a number nine Typhoon named ¡°Soba¡± landed in Fujian Province, affecting over 1.57 million people, causing three-thousand two-hundred houses to fall, and leaving one person missing.

The direct economic loss reached one-thousand one-hundred million RMB.

The typhoon has now dwindled to a tropical storm with its centre located within Fujian Province. The wind force alongside the coastal area remained at nine to ten degrees with wind power around the landing area at twelve degrees.

The peak wind force reached fourteen degrees at Ping Tan Island.