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1. Lifestyle - Cityseen

   30-Hour Famine celebrates 30 years of hunger for change

   Posted Feb 07th 2013, 12:00am by Charley Lanyon

   ... entails volunteers taking a pledge to fast for 30 hours; there's also an option to not eat for eight hours. Participants gather in an unfortunately named Famine Camp in Aberdeen, where ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1144793/30-hour-famine-celebrates-30-years-hunger-change
2. News - China - HUMAN RIGHTS

   Films document horror of labour camps 50 years ago and today

   Posted May 01st 2013, 12:00am by Verna Yu

   ... News China Labour Camp Xie Yihui Documentary Film Verna Yu verna.yu@scmp.com One tells of starving children slaving in Sichuan forest, the other of women's modern-day torture When Xie Yihui read about the deaths of many children in a Sichuan "re-education through labour" camp in the early 1960s, she was horrified. She had been reading an account by Zeng Boyan, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1227061/films-document-horror-labour-camps-50-years-ago-and-today
3. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   The terrible price of Pyongyang's nuclear hunger

   Posted Feb 19th 2013, 03:51am by Donald Kirk

   ... recently that North Hwanghae and neighbouring South Hwanghae province were suffering from famine. Who would have believed we were in the midst of scenes of starvation? How were we to guess while ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1153587/terrible-price-pyongyangs-nuclear-hunger
4. Cheng adopts maternal role

   Posted Mar 01st 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Human Interest Hong Kong Singers Sammi Cheng World Vision Famine Events Disaster Clara Mak Canto-pop singer Sammi Cheng Sau-man had her first taste of motherhood when she sponsored 12 ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/628207/cheng-adopts-maternal-role
5. Mao's Great Famine

   Posted Sep 26th 2010, 12:00am by Charmaine Chan

   ... Great Leap Forward Famine Charmaine Chan Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikotter Bloomsbury HK$255 'Any attempt to understand what happened in communist China must start by placing [the Great Leap Forward] at the very centre of the entire Maoist period,' Frank Dikotter writes in his important book, Mao's Great Famine. Supported by archival documents made ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/725796/maos-great-famine
6. letters

   Posted Dec 04th 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... a famine signal to our brain, causing us to overeat. Eat more slowly. According to research conducted by the BBC, McDonald's wastes an average of 1,000 tonnes of food every year. To end this, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/662529/letters
7. Past natural disaster tolls will remain in the past

   Posted Sep 23rd 2005, 12:00am by Josephine Ma

   ... declassified sparked hope the central government might finally disclose the number of people who died in the Great Famine, from 1959-61. But Vice-Minister of Civil Affairs Jia Zhibang said ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/517390/past-natural-disaster-tolls-will-remain-past
8. News - China - JUSTICE

   Mother sent to labour camp has compensation claim rejected

   Posted Apr 13th 2013, 12:00am by LAURA ZHOU

   ... to put her in a labour camp." The verdict tells people that it's not inappropriate to put her in a labour camp Some journalists complained that they were blocked from accessing ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1213471/mother-sent-labour-camp-has-compensation-claim-rejected
9. News - World - GERMANY

   Germany arrests 'former Auschwitz guard', age 93

   Posted May 07th 2013, 12:37am by AP

   ... News World Auschwitz Holocaust Nazi Concentration Camps Associated Press in Berlin Emigrant deported from US for lying about his Nazi past is held over alleged role at death camp A 93-year-old man who was deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1231852/germany-arrests-former-auschwitz-guard-age-93
10. News - China

    War veteran, 80, sent to labour camp for protests

    Posted Dec 05th 2012, 08:44pm by Agence France-Presse in Beijing

    ... News China Labour camps Agence France-Presse in Beijing An 80 year old Chinese war veteran spent a year and a half in a “re-education” camp for trying to complain about a policeman, his son said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of high-profile labour camp cases. Liu Chunshan, a veteran of the Chinese civil war and Korean war, was sent to a “re-education through labour” ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1098277/war-veteran-80-sent-labour-camp-protests

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