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China, world's top executioner, defends death penalty
Mar 27, 2014 (AFP)
China defended the death penalty Thursday as a traditional deterrent, after a report said its annual executions had again far exceeded the rest of the world's c...
China earthquake activist freed after five years: lawyer
Mar 27, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese activist who investigated whether shoddy construction caused the deaths of thousands of children when their schools collapsed in a 2008 earthquake was...
Chinese man stabs six to death over property dispute
Mar 27, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese man went on a killing spree following a dispute over family properties Thursday, leaving six people dead in a village outside Beijing, police said. Th...
Wukan protest leader flees China, seeks US asylum
Mar 26, 2014 (AFP)
A leader of protests in a Chinese village that grabbed worldwide attention when it rebelled against local Communist Party authorities in 2011 has fled to the Un...
Wukan protest leader flees China, seeks US aslyum: report
Mar 26, 2014 (AFP)
A leader of the 2011 Wukan protests in China that grabbed worldwide attention has fled to the US to seek asylum, media reports and an associate said on Wednesda...
Michelle Obama touts equality, religious rights in China
Mar 25, 2014 (AFP)
US First Lady Michelle Obama promoted ethnic equality, the civil rights movement and religious freedom in China on Tuesday, raising the sensitive issues on a to...
Thousands mourn Shanghai's 'underground' bishop
Mar 22, 2014 (AFP)
Thousands of mourners packed a Shanghai square Saturday to bid farewell to "underground" Catholic Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang whose faith, they said, led him t...
Union Jack-waving fans greet Hong Kong's last governor
Mar 21, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong's last colonial governor Chris Patten got a hero's welcome to the city from emotional fans waving Union Jack flags and playing the British national an...
China detains second leader of rebel village
Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese prosecutors have detained on bribery charges a deputy chief of a village which attracted worldwide attention when it rebelled against its Communist lead...
China bans jailing of petitioners: Xinhua
Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)
China has banned the widespread practice of detaining petitioners seeking government redress, state media said Thursday, following the abolition four months ago...
Hong Kong in siege atmosphere after fresh attack on media workers
Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)
Fears over press freedom in Hong Kong intensified after two media executives were beaten by masked men, with one newspaper Thursday describing a "siege atmosphe...
'Black and purple' marks on dead Chinese activist: lawyer
Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese rights activist who died under police guard in hospital had "black and purple" marks all over her body, her lawyer said Thursday, citing her brother. ...
UN experts condemn death of Chinese dissident
Mar 18, 2014 (AFP)
A group of UN rights experts on Tuesday condemned the death in detention of a dissident Chinese activist, saying she was denied access to vitally-needed medical...
China denies mistreating dead dissident
Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)
China on Monday said it had respected the rights of a dissident activist who died under detention, provoking outrage from her lawyer who maintains police denied...
Migration in China: shifting slightly, but still going strong
Mar 14, 2014 (SPX)
The brain drain of educated workers is still felt most severely in China's central and western provinces, since most knowledge-based industries are generally co...
China attacker stabs five to death after row: police
Mar 14, 2014 (AFP)
An attacker in China stabbed five people to death on Friday before being shot dead, authorities said, ruling out terrorism two weeks after 29 people were killed...
Detained China activist dies after critical illness
Mar 14, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese human rights activist died on Friday after falling critically ill in detention after police denied her medical treatment for months, her brother said....
China detains rebel village official: Xinhua
Mar 14, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese police have detained on bribery charges the deputy chief of a village which attracted worldwide attention when it rebelled against its Communist leaders...
China detains citizen journalists after Tiananmen 'immolation': Amnesty
Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)
China has detained at least four people including the founder of a citizen-run news website which reported that a woman set herself on fire last week in Beijing...
Daring 'urban explorers' get high on history
Mar 11, 2014 (AFP)
Dangling his feet off the edge of a skyscraper more than fifty storeys above the streets of Hong Kong, Jonathan Tsang looks as relaxed as if he was kicking back...
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