According to friends of Chinese AIDS activist Tian Xi, he is expected to complete his prison sentence and be released on August 18, 2011. His family income is quite low, and they have no way to meet his medical costs. Friends and family have issued a call for donations to the following account.
Account name: TIAN Xi
Bank: Bank of China
Runan Branch 中国银行汝南支行
Account number: 254608370972
HIV Young Leaders Fund, in collaboration with Youth LEAD, is happy to announce our Request for Proposals for youth-led initiatives working to address the needs of young people most-affected by HIV in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Over 18,000 victims were affected by the 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar/Burma on March
24th, according to the Shan Herald Agency for News. Relief has yet to reach
many of the victims in Shan State, which is an ethnic minority region of the
country often wracked by conflict. For a recent update on the disaster,
see https://bit.ly/fiCZS.
The independent news agency has issued a call for appeals.
Donations for Shan State quake victims can be made at the following account:
Account name SHAN
Account number 402-387907-6
Siam Commercial Bank
Type of account Savings
Branch Big C Hangdong branch
Chiangmai, Thailand
or sent by Money Order (M.O.) to the following address:
SHAN, P.O.Box 15, Nonghoi P.O, Chiangmai 50007, Thailand
For further information, please contact
Tel: 081 531 2837 and 080 125 7474.
by Meg Davis
Since March 2010, we’ve received a flurry of calls and
emails from reporters, donors and lawyers asking about the new regulations on NGOs
in China. Here’s our take on the regulations that have been
causing trans-Pacific headaches, and a few thoughts on what this means for
Chinese NGOs in the future.
By Peter Ford
Sitting in a bare office behind an anonymous steel door, Yu Fangqiang
feels under siege.
His small nongovernmental organization, Yirenping, has enjoyed
remarkable success in helping HIV and hepatitis B sufferers fight
discrimination by Chinese employers, universities, and government
departments. For this challenge to the authorities, though, the group is
paying a high price.
Last year, police raided Yirenping’s Beijing office and confiscated
all its publicity material and legal aid brochures – hence the empty
bookshelves. In March, officials subjected their accounts to an
unusually prolonged investigation and warned them of more to come.
Now, new government regulations are starving Yirenping and other
controversial NGOs of funds.
“I am very worried about our future,”
says Mr. Yu, Yirenping’s chief coordinator. “I’m afraid we may have to
close.”
Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor.
