About 5,000 workers from six recently bankrupted state factories demonstrated and blocked traffic in the northeastern city of Liaoyang yesterday, complaining that they were owed a year or more's wages and accusing officials of corruption, a human rights monitor and local officials said.
Thousands of Tibetan monks and nuns have been forced to leave a thriving religious study center in the remote mountains of Sichuan Province, along the eastern edge of ethnic Tibetan territory, according to international rights monitors and local officials.
Uchaguzi has prepared a Web-based, crowd-sourced map of Kenya that, starting this weekend, will track thousands of SMS messages, tweets, phone calls and emails from members of the public, civil society activists, election monitors and local officials, to build a picture of what is happening across the country.
A3 Tibetan Monks Pushed Out China has forced thousands of Tibetan monks and nuns to leave the religious academy of Larung Gar, a thriving center in remote mountains along the eastern edge of ethnic Tibetan territory, according to international monitors and local officials.
"To be able to monitor these factories, local officials are supposed to visit them in person," says Zhang Kai, lead campaigner on air pollution at Greenpeace East Asia.
Although state and local observers customarily monitor local elections here, officials said it was the first time that federal observers would be used in a Newark election and one of only a handful of occasions in which they have been used in municipal elections anywhere in the country.
They often relocate to compounds in town — like the colorful ones I saw — where local officials can monitor their activities more easily.
A law recently passed by Parliament and signed by President Thein Sein instructs local officials to monitor the activities of foreigners and requires all of us Burmese to report to the local authorities any overnight guest.
The EPA is charged with helping guide local officials to monitor environmental toxins.
