湖南上访村长离奇死 官员称小事一桩

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VOA Chinese, Nov 8, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... lage-133433443.html
("湖南新化县佛光村党支书兼村主任游济安今年6月8号到县政府上访，期间与家属通过几次电话，后来失去联系，下落不明。5天后，他的尸体在百里以外的资江江中被发现")

(2)
(a) 一万艾未未“债主”与一万零八宪章签名者. VOA Chinese, Nov 8, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... news-133430073.html
(b) 中国人周二继续资助艾未未缴税单. VOA Chinese, Nov 8, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... TIST-133424843.html
("现在资助总额超过560万元人民币")

(3) 人权组织致函胡锦涛要求改善藏人处境. VOA Chinese, Nov 8, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... ibet-133430018.html
(国际特赦和人权观察11月3日)

(4) 焦国标: 莫斯科电台已关 新华社没有未来. VOA Chinese, Nov 8, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... OBAL-133393793.html
("焦国标博士还举例说，在前苏联解体前，莫斯科电台的规模和人数，比美国之音要多。但莫斯科电台现在在哪里呢？他认为，尽管新华社已经存在80年，但新华社并没有什么未来")

Note: For 莫斯科电台 Radio Moscow, see Voice of Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Russia
(Radio Moscow began broadcasting in 1922, continued to broadcast until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and was renamed the World Service of the Voice of Russia)

(5) 姚明开始大学本科课程. VOA Chinese, Nov 8, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ing_uni_class.shtml
(上海交通大学)

(6) Michael Wines, China Tries to Add Cultural Clout to Economic Muscle; A government goal seems to conflict with actions against artists. New York Times, Nov 8, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/0 ... tists%20&st=cse

Quote:

"agents of the local Public Security Bureau interrogated him [Yue] about one work, a collection of peppercorns arranged to form numbers. Security officers had already photographed the piece, studied it for an entire night and consulted cryptography experts to divine its message. As they eventually discovered, the numbers were in a computer language, Unicode, spelling out five phrases that Chinese censors have banned from the results of Internet search engines.

"the notion is lost on Chinese leaders that a great culture — whether in painting, science or journalism — rests on people’s abilities to push the boundaries of creativity, no matter whom it offends.

Note:
(a) YUE Luping  岳 路平
(b) YU Jianrong  余 建荣
(c) Songzhuang 宋庄
(d) ZHANG Ming  张 鸣
(e) LIANG Xiaosheng  梁 晓声
(f) The "piece" in "say their piece" is a noun:
"OPINION, VIEW <spoke his piece>"
www.m-w.com