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www.ministryoftofu.com — Liu Ping was a worker at a state-owned iron and steel plant in the city of Xinyu, Jiangxi Province. As a full-time employee, she had been enjoying the legal benefits of paid leave and overtime pay. Therefore, the company, in order to depress salary and arbitrarily fire workers like her, forced her off her post in the name of “internal retirement” in 2009.

www.nytimes.com — Two leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests said Wednesday that they had been denied entry to Hong Kong to attend the funeral on Saturday of Szeto Wah, a founder of the territory's democracy movement.

asia.cnet.com — CNET Asia's resident China blogger gives us a quick and tasty rundown on who Ai Weiwei is, and why he's so often popping up when Western media comes a knockin'.

www.washingtonpost.com — A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state power, the man's lawyer said. Attorney Pu Zhiqiang said activist Tan Zuoren was convicted of the charge Tuesday by the Chengdu Intermediate Court.

worldblog.msnbc.msn.com — Shanghai citizen Feng Zhenghu never thought he’d find himself in a plight similar to Viktor Navorski, an East European stranded in an airport in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 movie "The Terminal." He also never expected to become a Twitter star followed by 7,000 people in just one month since he started to tweet about his exiled life at Tokyo’s Narita Airport.