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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04BAGHDAD556 |
AMBASSADOR OPENS FIRST AMERICAN CORNER IN IRAQ [...] Summary. The Ambassador and Kurdistan Regional Government Minister of Culture Fatah Zakhoy opened the first American Corner in Iraq on August 8. The Corner, located in the public library in Sulaimaniya, enables visitors to learn about the United States and to participate in American educatio [...] |
2004-08-19 08:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREF KCUL IZ |
| 06BEIJING11756 |
MEDIA TESTS LIMITS ON COVERING LEADERS' PERSONAL [...] (C) The envelope-pushing Southern Weekend newspaper recently challenged a longstanding taboo on reporting on the private lives of retired leaders when it published a retrospective on the activities of Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, and other recently-retired leaders. Embassy contacts said that the pa [...] |
2006-06-09 13:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 06BEIJING12885 |
CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTARY CALLS FOR LOOSENING LEASH [...] (C) A string of recent media pieces calling for a stronger watchdog role for Chinese media, including a daring commentary on the popular Sina.com web portal, has given journalists a dose of much-needed encouragement, even as they acknowledge continuing tight media controls. The first article [...] |
2006-06-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING13477 |
PARTY INTELLECTUAL SEES "LEFTIST" LEANINGS AMONG [...] (C) In a recent meeting with Poloffs, high-profile Party intellectual Ma Licheng (protect) maintained that it is too early to speculate about leadership maneuvering for next fall's 17th party congress. However, he provided a general readout on political dynamics at the top of the Party. In M [...] |
2006-06-23 17:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 06BEIJING13858 |
DRAFT LAW ON COVERING "SUDDEN INCIDENTS" RILES [...] (C) News that the National People's Congress draft law on handling emergency situations will include a section limiting the media's ability to report on "sudden incidents" has stimulated anger among Chinese journalists. Editors and reporters told us the proposed rules constitute another in a [...] |
2006-06-29 10:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING13927 |
RUMORS RIFE ABOUT POSSIBLE JULY 1 TAXI STRIKE IN [...] (C) Beijing taxi drivers intend to stage a one-day strike July 1 to protest rising gas prces and an increase in the minimum fare, several drivers told us June 28-30. Asked about te scope of the prospective work stoppage, a rndom sampling of drivers indicated that anywhere from 50 to 90 perce [...] |
2006-06-30 09:42:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI ELAB CH |
| 06BEIJING15260 |
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS GRABS HEADLINES IN CHINA [...] (C) As violence flares in the Middle East, China's broadcast and print media are providing a steady diet of colorful coverage. The public is showing more interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict now than during previous outbreaks of violence, contacts said, in part because of fears about how ev [...] |
2006-07-21 12:07:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING16959 |
LOCAL FARMERS LAUNCH "PEOPLE'S TV" TO SHORT- LIVED [...] (C) According to a senior journalist at the State Council Development Research Center paper, China Economic Times, local farmers in south-central China recently defied a prohibition on privately-run broadcasting facilities and established their own "People's TV." When authorities got wind of [...] |
2006-08-17 10:14:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 06BEIJING16961 |
BROADCAST NEWS: CCTV YOUTH MOVEMENT EARNS [...] (C) Two young anchors unexpectedly debuted on China Central Television's 7 p.m. national news broadcast early this summer. The appearance of Mr. Kang Hui and Ms. Li Zeming, both in their early 30s, has stimulated debate about CCTV's direction and spurred rumors about the possibility of chang [...] |
2006-08-17 11:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING19543 |
WREATHS LAID, SONGS PLAYED AS MEMORIES FADE [...] (C) Party leaders allowed limited media coverage but no official commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Mao Zedong's death on September 9. In a carefully managed, low-key observance, the Party convened no official functions and issued no official statements to mark the event. Media and cu [...] |
2006-09-14 08:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCUL CH |
| 06BEIJING20019 |
THAI COUP CAPTURES CHINESE MEDIA ATTENTION [...] (C) News of the overnight coup in Thailand dominated the news cycle in Beijing September 20. Coverage was generally straightforward and emphasized that the coup was orderly and bloodless. Popular dailies ran front page headlines and Internet news sites quickly developed special coverage link [...] |
2006-09-20 10:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING24030 |
STATIC ON THE STREETS OF BEIJING: NEW CCTV TOWER [...] (C) Construction of China Central Television's soaring new headquarters tower is in full swing in central Beijing. But even as the ambitious project generates a buzz at New York's Museum of Modern Art, criticism and controversy simmer at home. Contacts groused that the cost of the building [...] |
2006-11-24 07:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING24239 |
MFA ANNOUNCES RELAXED RULES FOR FOREIGN MEDIA FOR [...] Foreign journalists will not need host organizations or permission from provincial foreign affairs offices to conduct news gathering activities in China during the period surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Liu Jianchao announced at a special press co [...] |
2006-12-01 11:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KCUL KOLY SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING24242 |
CHINESE MEDIA TREADS CAREFULLY IN COVERING RECENT [...] (C) Recent flashes of violent unrest have gotten uneven coverage in the Chinese media. Although news of a toddler's death that touched off a hospital rampage in Sichuan appeared in local newspapers and reports of student riots in Jiangxi aired on provincial television, local press has remain [...] |
2006-12-01 12:21:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING24267 |
NEW DOG RULES UNLEASH EMOTIONAL DEBATE IN BEIJING [...] (C) Debate about Beijing's new rules limiting households to one dog and outlawing "big and dangerous" breeds is raging as 2006, the Year of the Dog in the Chinese zodiac calendar, draws to a close. The crackdown on canines has touched off unusual demonstrations on the streets of the capital a [...] |
2006-12-04 09:29:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING24311 |
POPULAR GLOSSY CENSURED OVER ARTICLES ON CULTURAL [...] (C) The high-circulation lifestyle magazine Sanlian Life Weekly has been censured for recent articles that crossed censors' redlines on the Cultural Revolution and Tibet, Sanlian staff and other contacts confirmed. The editor in chief has received a reprimand and may be fined or fired. Jour [...] |
2006-12-05 10:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING24430 |
NOT YOUR HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEXT: "RISE OF THE [...] (C) A popular CCTV-2 documentary "The Rise of the Great Powers" has set Beijing's chattering classes abuzz in recent weeks. The 12-part series tells the story of how nine nations, including the UK, Japan, Russia and the United States, rose to become great powers at various points in history. [...] |
2006-12-10 22:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING8115 |
HISTORIAN STRIKES BACK AT CONTROVERSIAL "FREEZING [...] (C) The recent rebuttal by Zhongshan University Professor Yuan Weishi, who wrote the article that spurred censors to suspend China Youth Daily's provocative Freezing Point insert in January (ref A), is causing a stir among Beijing's elite. Yuan's latest effort is a detailed refutation of a r [...] |
2006-04-28 11:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 06BEIJING9091 |
PLAGIARIZE OR PERISH? SCANDALS ROIL CHINESE [...] (C) Headline-grabbing scandals have erupted at the most prestigious Chinese universities as a wave of plagiarism and academic misconduct is stimulating sharp debate on campuses, in courtrooms and in the media. The Propaganda Department has banned coverage of one case involving a prominent la [...] |
2006-05-15 11:10:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07ASHGABAT737 |
ARI ROLAND DUO RETURNS FOR EXUBERANT TURKMEN-AMERICAN [...] (U) Jazz musicians Ari Roland and Chris Byars helped post create an outstanding success in cultural diplomacy. After a suspenseful and challenging program in April, post was pleased to bring back Roland and Byars for a July jazz outreach program that broke cultural barriers, renewed old ties, [...] |
2007-07-25 09:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KCUL TX |
| 07BEIJING1238 |
CHINA'S BLOGS: NATIONALISM, SEX AND ONLINE [...] (C) The blossoming world of blogs, ranging from patriotic to religious to racy, is captivating China's surging population of Internet users, with some unexpected results. -- A blog petition launched by a popular television anchor calling for the Forbidden City Palace Museum to boot Starbuc [...] |
2007-02-26 11:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING1320 |
LITERARY THRILLER: CHINESE AUTHOR PLANS TO SUE [...] (C) A controversial author's preparations to sue China's General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) for banning her book about early 20th Century Beijing opera stars has created a stir in Beijing's literary world. The book, by Zhang Yihe, is one of eight that were blacklisted at [...] |
2007-02-28 10:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING1591 |
NPC PREPARES TO ENDORSE PROPERTY RIGHTS LAW, [...] (C) The revised version of China's oft-delayed and highly controversial "Property Rights Law," currently under discussion at the annual National People's Congress (NPC), contains new language designed to defuse criticism that the party is abandoning socialist principles. However, it also tak [...] |
2007-03-09 10:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07BEIJING1672 |
LI YUANCHAO DISCUSSES REFORM, PROPERTY LAW AT [...] (C) Pressing ahead with political and economic reform poses the biggest challenge for Jiangsu, provincial Party Secretary Li Yuanchao said at a dinner hosted by the Ambassador March 8. Interest groups that are unwilling to compromise, especially on issues such as health care, are slowing pos [...] |
2007-03-13 10:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING1884 |
INTERNET ADDICTION SCARE IN CHINA REVEALS DEEPER [...] (C) The perils of "Internet addiction" have been a hot human interest story in Mainland media in recent weeks, as newspapers and (of course) Internet news sites run a steady diet of cautionary tales about youths losing their way thanks to too much time online. The Ministry of Culture has ann [...] |
2007-03-20 10:27:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING2188 |
17TH PARTY CONGRESS TO BOOST HU JINTAO'S [...] (C) Embassy contacts uniformly predict that the 17th Party Congress scheduled for this fall will boost Party chief Hu Jintao's ideological authority by listing his doctrinal slogans together with those of his predecessors. The relative weight that will be given to Hu's various ideological sl [...] |
2007-04-03 11:33:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07BEIJING2471 |
AMBASSADOR RAISES VOA BROADCASTS, INTERNET [...] (C) China's blocking of Voice of America radio and television broadcasts and censorship of United States Government Internet sites undermines the kinds of exchanges China itself wants to foster, the Ambassador told State Council Information Office Director Cai Wu on April 9. The programs and [...] |
2007-04-13 09:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING2481 |
PREMIER WEN'S VISIT TO JAPAN DOMINATES NEWS CYCLE [...] (C) Mainland media has presented saturation coverage of Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to Japan this week as print, online and broadcast media have given the visit top billing. With few exceptions, the treatment has been straightforward and upbeat. The official and popular press has emphasized P [...] |
2007-04-13 12:37:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCUL SOCI CH JA |
| 07BEIJING2949 |
MANDARIN DROWNING OUT UIGHUR LANGUAGE AMONG YOUTH [...] (C) Young people, teachers and parents are optimistic about Xinjiang's economic future but are also concerned about the loss of Uighur cultural roots, Poloff learned during a recent trip to the region. Official Xinjiang media and Government policy confirm that speaking Chinese is the key to [...] |
2007-05-04 08:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07BEIJING318 |
FOREIGN JOURNALISTS TEST CHINA'S RELAXED MEDIA [...] (C) Foreign journalists have had mixed results in testing China's newly relaxed travel and interview rules (reftel). Several dissidents and controversial figures have given interviews to foreign media outlets with no official interference or repercussions, our contacts told us. Nonetheless, [...] |
2007-01-12 11:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING3259 |
CHINESE POP PHILOSOPHER SPARKS CONFUCIAN SENSATION [...] (C) The sudden spectacular popularity of Yu Dan, a media professor whose televised lectures on Confucianism have broken ratings records, has set Beijing's chattering classes buzzing about ideology, Yu's integrity and China's spiritual needs. Telegenic and plainspoken, Yu has inspired compari [...] |
2007-05-15 09:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07BEIJING3724 |
DISSIDENTS HOLD VIRTUAL RALLY AS TIGHT SECURITY [...] (C) The eighteenth anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square passed without incident in Beijing. Security presence in the Square was more visible and aggressive than last year, but in a break from past precedent, only a handful of activists were detained in advance of the [...] |
2007-06-04 11:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07BEIJING411 |
CHINESE OFFICIAL POLLING: SURVEY SAYS, YOU'RE [...] (C) The Chinese Government at various levels is increasingly turning to opinion polling to measure public satisfaction with officials' performances and with provision of social services. The Ministry of Supervision (the Government analog to the Party's Central Discipline Inspection Commissio [...] |
2007-01-18 09:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING5069 |
PRC GOVERNMENT POUNCES ON RARE "GOOD NEWS" MEDIA [...] (C) Relieved to have good news to report, China's media gave heavy coverage to the successful rescue of 69 miners from a flooded mine in Henan Province August 1-2. China Central Television (CCTV) pushed back coverage of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army to b [...] |
2007-08-03 11:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING5142 |
U.S.-BASED COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS CHIDES [...] (SBU) The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) held a press conference in Beijing on August 7 to announce the release of a report highly critical of China's record on press freedom in advance of the Olympic Games. The press conference proceeded smoothly without incident, in contr [...] |
2007-08-07 11:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI KCUL KOLY CH |
| 07BEIJING5187 |
CHINESE ACTIVISTS, SCHOLARS CALL FOR "HUMANE" [...] (C) In an indication of the domestic public relations and policy challenges China will increasingly have to grapple with in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, 39 mainland Chinese activists, lawyers, scholars, writers and journalists have signed an "open letter" calling on PRC leader [...] |
2007-08-08 10:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KOLY PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07BEIJING5233 |
CHINA KICKS OFF ONE-YEAR COUNTDOWN TO OLYMPICS [...] (C) China kicked off the one-year countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games with an impressive ceremony in front of Chairman Mao's portrait in Tiananmen Square August 8. Politburo Standing Committee Member Wu Bangguo gave the keynote address, reiterating Beijing's commitment to conduct a "humane" [...] |
2007-08-09 11:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KOLY PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07BEIJING620 |
"DEMOCRACY IS A GOOD THING" ARTICLE IGNITES DEBATE [...] (C) An article in the influential weekly Study Times strongly endorsing democracy as "the best" political system has stimulated sharp discussion in Chinese media and intellectual circles. Our contacts speculated that "Democracy Is a Good Thing," by progressive scholar and author Yu Keping, i [...] |
2007-01-26 11:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING6498 |
DISH DIFFUSION: PIRATE SATELLITE TV THRIVES IN [...] (C) China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) has been cracking down on illegal satellite television since July 2007, according to news reports. While police in several cities are confiscating illicit receivers, enforcement of China's long-standing ban on private sat [...] |
2007-10-05 08:47:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PROP PHUM SOCI KCUL KIPR CH TW HK JA RP |
| 07BEIJING721 |
THE TROUBLE WITH KIDS: 20-40 GENERATION GAP [...] (C) It is fashionable among Chinese elites who were born in the 1960s or before to criticize current Chinese college students and recent graduates as self- absorbed and materialistic. Scholars and journalists have told us that in their view, a "20-40" generation gap is emerging between youn [...] |
2007-01-30 10:50:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCUL SOCI CH |
| 07BEIJING7331 |
XI JINPING SLATED FOR PARTY SCHOOL PRESIDENT, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts have told PolOffs that newly-promoted Politburo Standing Committee Member Xi Jinping will soon be appointed president of the Central Party School (CPS), replacing former Politburo Standing Committee Member Zeng Qinghong, who retired at the mid-October 17th Party [...] |
2007-12-04 11:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCUL CH |
| 07KABUL1191 |
GOA RELATIONSHIP WITH AFGHAN MEDIA REACHES [...] (U) Ongoing war in Afghanistan is taking its toll on media freedom. After initially witnessing dramatic improvements since the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan's media has experienced a slow yet disturbing turn for the worse over the past year, including increased detention of journalists an [...] |
2007-04-10 13:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KCUL AF IR |
| 07MOSCOW5365 |
RUSSIA'S LATEST CULTURE WAR [...] (C) A paean to President Putin on his 55th birthday by one of culture's grand old men, film director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov, has revealed fault lines in the cultural community similar to those that are all too apparent among the country's political classes. Mikhalkov's film hagiography of [...] |
2007-11-13 14:44:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCUL KDEM SOCI RS |
| 07SHENYANG153 |
THEY "WON'T LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK": PRESS CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conservative propaganda officials in northeast China continue to gag, muffle or otherwise "manage" perceived negative news, according to Liaoning journalists and Party sources, who note that media freedom generally tends to be more restricted here than in other parts of China. Pr [...] |
2007-08-06 08:46:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH |
| 08BAGHDAD1891 |
UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD - CLASS OF 2008 [...] (U) Summary: University of Baghdad (UB) President Dr. Mosa Aziz Al-Mosawa exulted at the success of the 2008 academic year during a June 15 meeting with Poloff. UB is at full capacity, with 70,000 undergraduate students and 10,000 graduate students. July 15 will mark the end of the UB acade [...] |
2008-06-22 15:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAO KCUL IZ |
| 08BEIJING608 |
BLOGPOWER: CHINA'S GOVERNMENT FEELS PRESSURE FROM [...] (C) In 2007 Chinese bloggers grew increasingly bold in questioning government authority, according to several Post sources in media and academia. Censors, our contacts tell us, simply cannot keep up with China's rapidly growing blogger community, which now numbers 17 million. For example, wh [...] |
2008-02-20 10:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KCUL PROP SOCI EINT CH |
| 08BEIJING809 |
PREMIER'S NPC REPORT PLEDGES MORE REFORM, TACKLES [...] (C) The State Council's annual "Government Work Report," read by Premier Wen Jiabao at the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) on March 5, reviewed China's major hot-button economic, administrative and social issues and provided general policy priorities to tackle them. Th [...] |
2008-03-05 13:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON KCUL PHUM CH |
| 09BAGHDAD2279 |
IRAQI MEDIA PLACEMENT OF PRESIDENT'S RAMADAN GREETING [...] (U) Summary: President Obama's special Ramadan greeting to the Muslim world was carried in several Iraqi newspapers and news websites, as well as on three Iraqi Television channels that broadcast throughout the region. Reporting of the greeting was immediate and positive. A number of news out [...] |
2009-08-23 14:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KCUL IZ |
| 09BAGHDAD2484 |
U.S. OUTREACH TO THE MUSLIM WORLD: FARAH PANDITH DESCRIBES [...] Summary: The Department's Senior Advisor on Muslim Engagement Farah Pandith conducted a digital video conference with Iraqi media and cultural contacts to explain her office's role in reaching out to Muslim communities. This event engaged major media players in Iraq during Ramadan, allowing for [...] |
2009-09-14 13:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KISL KPAO KCUL IZ |
| 09BANGKOK1486 |
THAI MFA DEMARCHE ON UNESCO/AMCIT VISIT TO PREAH [...] No summary [...] |
2009-06-19 10:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCUL TH |
| 09BANGKOK1487 |
THAI MFA DEMARCHE ON UNESCO/AMCIT VISIT TO PREAH [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA's American Affairs Acting Director General Apirath Vienravi called in then Charge June 18 for to express grave concern over a team of UNESCO representatives, including an Amcit, which crossed through Thai territory without permission or visas in April, en route to the Preah [...] |
2009-06-19 10:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCUL TH |
| 09BEIJING633 |
CHINA WILL NOT "MECHANICALLY ADOPT" WESTERN [...] (C) National People's Congress (NPC) Chairman Wu Bangguo on March 9 emphasized the differences between China's NPC system and foreign legislatures, declaring that China would not "mechanically adopt" Western models, in delivering his annual report on the nominal legislature's accomplishments a [...] |
2009-03-11 13:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI KCUL CH |
| 09NAIROBI1409 |
SOMALIA - Women, the Victims of Violence [...] (SBU) Escalating violence in the past two months has claimed the lives of an estimated 250 Somalis, has injured more than 1500, and has driven thousands from their homes. Increasingly, women are being directly targeted and are bearing the brunt of the conflict's devastating consequences. Som [...] |
2009-07-07 07:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ECON KWMN SOCI KCUL SO |