The Epoch Times: Chinese Organisation Honours Falun Gong
For the first time since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, a Chinese organisation has recognised the contributions Falun Gong presents to the Chinese culture and community.
Media Reports
Media Reports
AAP (Australia): Troupe Brings Chinese Traditional Culture to Australia
Many Australians think of China in two ways. The first image is that of an emerging global economic powerhouse, rapidly rising on the back of a colossal working population. The other is of a people increasingly demanding greater political freedom after half a century under a stifling authoritarian regime.
ABC-TV Reports on New Tang Dynasty Television’s Chinese New Year Spectacular Show (Photos)
On the evening of March 28, 2007, ABC-TV’s flagship current affairs program “Lateline” reported in prime time that the New Tang Dynasty Television’s (NTDTV) Chinese New Year Spectacular shows would be staged in Sydney on March 29. The program also exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Consulate-General in Sydney interfering with the show.
Western Advocate (Australia): Speaking Out on Human Rights
While other kids are going to the beach or the movies this summer, a group of friends from Sydney have given up part of their school holidays to travel the countryside raising awareness of the plight of orphans in China.
Jawa Report, TX: Google Regrets Being Evil in Red China
The company modified the version of its search engine in China to exclude controversial topics such as the Tiananmen Square massacre or the Falun Gong movement, provoking a backlash in its core western markets.
NEWS.com.au,Australia: Human rights warning over organ tourism
HUMAN rights lawyers want Western nations to discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China for human organs whose “donors” may have been killed and the organs harvested.
Reuters: Canada rights team decries China “organ tourism”
Canada and other countries should discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China to get human organs whose “donors” may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights lawyers said on Wednesday.
ABC: Students protest against Falun Gong persecution
A group of 11 Sydney high school students have stopped off in Dubbo on a tour to Broken Hill to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Western Standard (Alberta): No More Mr. Nice Guy
In the larger picture, China has the highest number of executions in the world–not surprising in a country where 68 separate offences warrant the death penalty. The population is constantly monitored on the Internet, aided by western high-tech giants like Google, and the crackdowns on popular protests, whether for the return of seized land or simply religious freedom, can be brutal.
Footscray, Yarraville, Braybrook Star,Australia: Rice waits
THE mayor of Maribyrnong, Janet Rice, will be included in a delegation to investigate
human rights abuses in China. The delegation has asked permission to investigate claims that Falun Gong practitioners in China are being imprisoned and killed, their organs harvested and sold.