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The article reports on protests against the pro-democracy "Apple Daily" newspaper in Hong Kong, China, founded by Jimmy Lai, and mentions allegations that the protests were instigated by China's Communist Party.

Reports that "The Liberation Daily of Shanghai" newspaper published an editorial which commented on the popular protests against the Japanese government as an evil plot with ulterior motives in China.

States that the `People's Daily' newspaper in China has made a rare mention of the 1989 student protest in Beijing. 10th anniversary of the massacre of the student protester in June 4, 1999; Efforts of the government to prevent the commemoration of the event.

BEIJING -- Angry demonstrators entered a government office in the port city of Qidong, near Shanghai, on Saturday and smashed computers and destroyed furniture to protest a waste discharge plant that they said would pollute the water supply. In reaction, the local government Web site said Saturday that plans for the discharge plant, which was to be part of a paper manufacturing plant, had been abandoned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A group of prominent Chinese lawyers and legal scholars have released a research report arguing that the Tibetan riots and protests of March 2008 were rooted in legitimate grievances brought about by failed government policies -- and not through a plot of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. The lengthy paper is the result of interviews conducted over a month in two Tibetan regions. It represents the first independent investigation into the causes of the widespread protests, which the Chinese government harshly suppressed. It blamed the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala for the unrest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]