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Brother of blind China activist says he was beaten
May 09, 2013 (AFP)
The brother of a blind activist who has fled China said he himself was savagely beaten by two men on Thursday, in what he called an intensification of reprisals...
Cameron spells out British stance on Tibet
May 08, 2013 (AFP)
Britain does not support a Tibetan state independent of China, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday amid reports of Chinese anger at his meeting with ...
New attention on old China poisoning case
May 06, 2013 (AFP)
An almost 20-year-old case of a Beijing student left paralysed after allegedly being poisoned was back in the spotlight in Chinese state media Monday after a pe...
China officials holding secret sauna parties: state media
May 01, 2013 (AFP)
Chinese officials have been holding secret sauna parties and hiding their alcohol in plastic water bottles as they seek to get around a crackdown on extravaganc...
Cancer victim with jailed family faces China land battle
Apr 29, 2013 (AFP)
His frail body is ravaged by cancer and age, his wife and son are in a Chinese prison and Yao Baohua is awaiting trial himself, but he is still determined to fi...
China hands down death sentences in lending crackdown
Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)
China said on Friday it has jailed or sentenced to death more than 1,400 people for underground money lending during a crackdown on informal financing used by s...
China investigating clashes that killed 21
Apr 25, 2013 (AFP)
Chinese police were Thursday investigating eight suspects arrested in the ethnically divided Xinjiang region after clashes left 21 dead, with authorities report...
Wife of jailed China Nobel laureate attends a trial: lawyer
Apr 23, 2013 (AFP)
The wife of jailed Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo appeared in public on Tuesday after years of house arrest to attend the trial of her brother, his lawyer sa...
French cinema shines hopeful spotlight on China
Apr 23, 2013 (AFP)
Cinema is one of France's greatest cultural exports but one market -- China -- remains largely untapped, and the industry is hoping President Francois Hollande ...
US tycoon pledges $300 million to China university
Apr 21, 2013 (AFP)
A US tycoon on Sunday pledged to donate $300 million to an elite Chinese university to fund a scholarship program that will recruit students from countries arou...
Human rights in China worsening, US finds
Apr 19, 2013 (AFP)
China's human rights record worsened in 2012 amid an increasingly harsh crackdown on Tibetan and Uighur areas, the United States warned Friday in an annual repo...
China media praise reformer whose death sparked Tiananmen
Apr 15, 2013 (AFP)
Reformist Chinese leader Hu Yaobang, whose death led to the 1989 Tiananmen protests, was offered rare praise by a newspaper run by the ruling Communist Party on...
Ancient Chinese Buddhist temple faces demolition
Apr 11, 2013 (AFP)
Authorities in Xian, the Chinese city home to the Terracotta Warriors, have ordered most of the buildings in a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple demolished, staff ...
Tibetans who commit suicide 'not crazy': Dalai Lama
Apr 11, 2013 (AFP)
The Dalai Lama on Thursday said during a visit to Italy that Tibetans who have committed suicide in recent weeks were "not crazy" but were taking desperate acti...
US concerned at reports Chinese activist's family abused
Apr 10, 2013 (AFP)
The United States said Wednesday it was concerned about reports that a nephew of blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has been mistreated in jail...
Blind activist says China violated US freedom deal
Apr 09, 2013 (AFP)
The Chinese human rights activist at the center of a diplomatic crisis a year ago on Tuesday accused Beijing of reneging on the agreement that freed him and urg...
China lauds 'Thatcher's biggest compromise' over H.K.
Apr 09, 2013 (AFP)
Margaret Thatcher was an "outstanding" leader who wisely compromised over Hong Kong's future, Chinese state media said Tuesday, although reactions to her death ...
Tibet disaster shows China resource divide
Apr 07, 2013 (AFP)
A landslide that crashed down a Tibetan mountain, entombing scores of mine workers, serves as a parable on China's resources boom and its failure to benefit eth...
Chinese activist Chen meets Bush, urges pressure
Apr 03, 2013 (AFP)
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, the center of a diplomatic crisis a year ago, on Wednesday met former US president George W. Bush and urged pressure on Beijin...
China 'two-child policy' town shows scope for reform
Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)
A few places in China give parents a rare right to have two offspring rather than one, but many stop at a single child anyway -- fuelling demands to end what cr...
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