Tan Shu Yan

A Chinese democracy organization has begun a drive to raise funds for a statue of Li Wangyang, the democracy activist whose suspicious death triggered widespread public outrage recently.

Overproduction of steel has led to an excess of stockpiles, hitting profit margins and causing imported iron ore to pile up at Chinese ports. And with this, China’s steel industry has turned a loss for the first quarter of 2012, according to statistics released by the China Iron and Steel Association.

The exchange opened at 2,346.98—a figure that resembles the date of the massacre written backward, followed by the 23rd anniversary (1989, June 4, 23).

Officials close to Zhou Yongkang, the regime’s security czar, are starting to be removed from their posts one by one.

Amnesty International is urgently appealing for the release of two Falun Gong practitioners, Wang Xiaodong and Wang Junling, who have recently been detained by the Chinese authorities and are now at risk of torture and ill-treatment.

Changes in the political climate in Beijing appear to have changed the official attitude in Moscow toward the spiritual practice Falun Gong.