Here is some recent news from three of my favourite places:
China
“*China opening jails for 1-child-policy violators*”:http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=343118
The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights in China says local governments in remote parts of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces plus areas of Fujian jail women who resist pregnancy fines.Jailing has picked up over the past two to three years, and the rights group gets about one related report per month, said senior researcher Nicolas Becquelin.
Central government officials know about the jails but tolerate them in the interest of controlling population growth, he said.
“The central government knows about the abuses but still wants birth control,” Becquelin said. “The law confers immense power on local officials, including administrative detention.”
Japan
“*Japan racism ‘deep and profound’*”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4671687.stm
An independent investigator for the UN says racism in Japan is deep and profound, and the government does not recognise the depth of the problem.
Doudou Diene, a UN special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, was speaking at the end of a nine-day tour of the country. …
He said that although the government helped to organise his visit, he felt many officials failed to recognise the seriousness of the racism and discrimination minorities suffered.
He was also concerned that politicians used racist or nationalist themes, as he put it, to whip up popular emotions. He singled out the treatment of ethnic Koreans and Chinese and indigenous tribes. …
Iran
“*Iran press blame West for blasts*”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4672037.stm
The Iranian media has been alleging that the London bombings were planned by the West to justify attacking Islam in the name of combating terrorism.Iranian officials began by expressing their shock and sympathy for what happened in London.
But with time to reflect, many of Iran’s newspapers have taken on an unusually hardline stance.
Kayhan paper says Britain and the US had to create an atmosphere of terror and insecurity in London so that the G8 leaders would endorse their belligerent policies like the occupation of Iraq.
The paper’s editorial called President Bush “stupid” and said he and Tony Blair would make a very successful comedy duo.
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In some days ago, I gave advice a man about troubling with
Korean criminal (with North Korean secret service !!).
Maybe you are surprise (me too), North Korean SS maneuver against us.
I had pitty for sufferer, and gave countermeasure for Brutal Korean.
I cannot consent to be ignored about our suffering.
If you believe what a UN (in short,unenlightene fellows)saying,
and ignore what japanese (general people) saying and suffering from foreigner climinal,
I can point out your mistake.
Japanese removes man what don’t observe the Japanese Local Rule and way.
It was called “Racism” (What a stupidly useful label !!),
At least I want to be Racist with pleasure.
[Trouble with Korean on business summary site]
This is summary site of trouble with korean on business (or on daily life),
has over hundred trouble (it include like attempted murder or attempted rape).
http://cool.kakiko.com/korea00/ (But sorry, japanese only, want to make english-version)
http://ocn.amikai.com/amitext/indexUTF8.jsp (translation, but very inaccurate).
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Tadanori, you just prove the point of the article.
What is the “New York-based human rights group”, and why does anything they say have any legitimacy? The one child policy is a law, and it’s basically a good law. I don’t think environmental destruction would be called a human right, but the root of all this destruction is population itself. People have to be responsible for the number of babies they have. You could say that maybe they should allow for two, but that wouldn’t improve the current situation. It’s not a “personal decision” how many babies you have. It affects the rest of your community, and if you were in as crowded as a place as I am, you’d have to agree.
It’s also a sovereign right for China to make and enforce its own laws. As long as these laws are reasonable, I don’t see why the existence of jails to enforce them would be considered human rights abuse. The most ironic thing is that the critical organization is American, and America is a veritable prison camp, with the largest prison population in the world. American prisons allow torture and rape, and most of the denizens are non-violent criminals, usually drug-related. Here in China there’s a $12 fine for posessing heroin, and some people get sent to rehab for one or two weeks. Human rights?
So who’s going to be the one saying a person can only have one kid or not? Let people make their own decisions. But of course in a communist country, that’s impossible. And why should environmentalists be allowed to make such a decision for someone else, if you’re going to claim the enviro angle on this?
I think I was saying that people having babies do in fact make decisions for other people. The ideal solution to the issue would be not to allow the state to subsidize baby-making in any way. Americans subsidize population growth and enviromental destruction through the property tax. And again, you could say that China is a commie country, our you could say the US is a commie country and that China is really more capitalist. We pay less taxes than you, we have less laws and bureaucracy (though it’s not really “small” either). The law is that if you go over one child (given that you and your wife aren’t only children), you have to pay a fine. Enforcement is such that the people who can’t pay the fines get the fines, and the people who live in the city observe the law, whether it applies to them or not – it’s considered enviro-conscious.
People are polluters. Do the world a favor and have two or less kids.