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China steps up Internet controls in Tibet
Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)
China's top leader in Tibet has ordered increased controls over the Internet and mobile phones, state press said Thursday, ahead of upcoming sensitive anniversa...
China to ban 'nasty' family planning slogans: report
Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)
China is ordering local officials to stop using threatening slogans to enforce its strict "one-child" policy, state media has reported. The government wants to ...
China's Sina says microblog controls will hurt activity
Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese web giant Sina warned Tuesday that government requirements for microbloggers to register their real names before posting messages will hurt activity on ...
China to water down secret detention law: experts
Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)
China's parliament is set to water down controversial changes to a law that would allow secret detentions, people with knowledge of the issue said Monday, follo...
'China-backed' Hong Kong hopeful should quit: poll
Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)
Two-thirds of Hong Kong people think China's reported favourite to become the city's next leader should quit the race, a poll suggested Thursday as analysts war...
China's 'occupy' toilet protests spread
Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese student is hoping to become a heroine for women around the world by launching an occupy movement of her own -- in the men's toilets. Fed up with long ...
Shanghai dialect fights to survive in modern China
Feb 22, 2012 (AFP)
When professor Qian Nairong published his dictionary of the Shanghai dialect in 2007, he was in some ways documenting a dying language. The number of people spe...
Tibetans in China to mark new year in tense climate
Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)
Tibetan new year is usually a time for festivities in China's ethnically Tibetan areas, but this year some are choosing not to celebrate after deadly unrest and...
Hundreds gather in China after self-immolation: rights group
Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)
Hundreds of Tibetans gathered in China's southwest to hold a vigil for a young Buddhist monk who set himself on fire, a rights group said Monday, in the latest ...
China detains Tibetan writer: report
Feb 19, 2012 (AFP)
Police in southwest China have detained a Tibetan writer amid scores of detentions in the region hit by anti-Chinese protests, a US-based broadcaster Radio Free...
China detains Tibetans back from India: rights group
Feb 17, 2012 (AFP)
China has detained large numbers of Tibetans for political re-education after they returned from a visit to India to listen to religious teachings, a leading ri...
China blames foreign reporters for bad press abroad
Feb 17, 2012 (AFP)
Despite investing billions of dollars in "soft power" projects to improve its image abroad, China complains it is still getting a lot of bad press and is pointi...
China appoints new head of restive Tibetan area
Feb 15, 2012 (AFP)
Beijing has appointed a career law enforcement official to head an ethnically Tibetan area of southwest China where a number of monks and nuns have self-immolat...
China vows to take steps to improve human rights
Feb 14, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that Beijing will take concrete steps to improve human rights as he admitted "there is always room for improvemen...
China police officer killed in Tibetan area: state media
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
Two "criminal suspects" killed a police officer before being shot dead in a Tibetan-inhabited area hit by a spate of protests against Beijing's rule, Chinese st...
Chinese village experiments with democracy
Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese village which staged an extraordinary rebellion against authorities last year has taken a key step in a process to freely elect its own governing comm...
Tibetan nun self-immolates in China: rights groups
Feb 12, 2012 (AFP)
An 18-year-old nun set herself on fire in China's restive southwest and later died, rights groups said Sunday, the latest in a spate of such incidents among eth...
Police chief flies to Beijing amid defection rumours
Feb 11, 2012 (AFP)
A former Chinese police chief whose visit to a US consulate sparked rumours he was trying to defect flew to Beijing with a top state security officer after meet...
Romney: China's one-child policy 'barbaric'
Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, courting conservatives who still regard him with suspicion, denounced China's "one-child" policy on Friday as "ba...
China jails prominent activist ahead of Xi's US visit
Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)
China jailed democracy activist Zhu Yufu for seven years on Friday for inciting subversion of state power, his wife said, ahead of a high-profile trip to the Un...
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