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Dalai Lama laments latest Tibetan self-immolations
Apr 20, 2012 (AFP)
The Dalai Lama voiced sadness Friday at the reported self-immolation of two more Tibetans, the latest in a wave of such protests against Beijing's rule. But the...
'We are the serfs': Chinese debate Bo Xilai saga
Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)
Yan Weilan combs through the Internet each day for any fresh news or rumours on China's rumbling political scandal that might have slipped past the country's ha...
Hong Kong's next leader to ban mainland babies
Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)
Hong Kong's next leader said Tuesday he plans to ban pregnant mainlanders from giving birth in the city and deny their children residency rights, in a bid to ea...
US calls for release of China rights defender
Apr 16, 2012 (AFP)
The United States ambassador to China called on Beijing Monday to release from jail the crippled rights defender Ni Yulan and her husband, and to end the house ...
China's Ai Weiwei sues tax bureau after huge fine
Apr 13, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese artist and government critic Ai Weiwei said Friday he was suing Beijing's tax bureau for violating the law when it imposed a multi-million tax evasion f...
China aims for 74.5 years life expectancy: minister
Apr 12, 2012 (AFP)
In China, life expectancy should reach 74.5 years by 2015, Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu said on Thursday. "In truth, the goal even closer to my heart is 75 ...
China deletes thousands of online posts over 'rumours'
Apr 12, 2012 (AFP)
China has closed 42 websites and deleted more than 210,000 posts since mid-March in a crackdown on online "rumours", state media said Thursday, as a major polit...
Top China leader ousted, wife probed over Briton's murder
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese politician Bo Xilai, once a rising star, has been stripped of his elite Communist Party post and his wife is being investigated for the murder of a Brit...
Nepal army takes control of Maoist camps
Apr 11, 2012 (AFP)
Nepal's army has taken over camps where Maoist fighters have been stationed since the end of the civil war, an official said Wednesday, in a major step towards ...
China court jails disabled activist and husband
Apr 10, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese court sentenced disabled activist Ni Yulan and her husband to jail for "provoking trouble" on Tuesday, a year after the couple were detained during a ...
Australia says cannot stop Chinese asylum seekers
Apr 10, 2012 (AFP)
Australia said Tuesday it had no power to stop a boatload of Chinese refugees rescued in a yacht off its north coast from pressing on with their planned journey...
Exiled Tiananmen leaders ask to visit China
Apr 08, 2012 (AFP)
The exiled leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement and other Chinese dissidents have asked the government to allow them to visit their homel...
Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi dies in US
Apr 07, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi, a key figure in the pro-democracy movement behind the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has died in the United States, a fellow acti...
China places six Uighurs on 'terror' list
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
China has placed six men from the Uighur ethnic minority on a "terror" list, accusing them of involvement in terrorist training camps and of inciting attacks in...
China tries alleged smuggling mastermind: state media
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
The alleged boss of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling and bribery scam that badly tainted China's government went on trial on Friday after a 12-year diplomatic b...
China tries alleged smuggling kingpin: state media
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
The alleged mastermind of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling racket whose extradition to China sparked a bitter diplomatic row with Canada went on trial Friday, s...
China shuts political websites in crackdown
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
Two Chinese political websites said Friday they had been ordered by authorities to shut for a month for criticising state leaders, the latest move in a broad go...
Writer fled China to 'publish book' on dissident
Apr 06, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese dissident who wrote a book critical of the country's leadership has said he fled into exile after being warned against publishing a biography of a jai...
Nobel laureates urge China to talk to Dalai Lama
Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)
Twelve Nobel laureates including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu have written to China's president urging him to open talks with the Dalai Lama after a se...
China arrests 22 ethnic Mongols in land protest: group
Apr 03, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese authorities have arrested 22 people in Inner Mongolia for protesting over a land dispute, a rights group said Tuesday, in the latest case of ethnic stri...
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