LAND GRABS BLAMED FOR UNREST       

Land grabs by officials eager to cash in on China's booming economy are
provoking mass unrest in China's countryside and amount to a "historical
error" that could threaten national stability, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao
said in comments published a few days ago. The government has begun a
campaign to curb abuses against peasants and migrant workers, roughly
two-thirds of China's 1.3 billion people, who have relatively little to
show for the most spectacular economic expansion in history.  Mass
uprisings and riots over pollution, corruption and seizures of farmland
have risen sharply in recent years and prompted growing worries in
Beijing that economic growth alone is no longer enough to ensure social
stability and the Communist Party's grip on power.