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Future Chinese astronauts must be close to perfection to meet the standards set for the men and women who will lead China into outer space. They have to be scar-free from head to toe, have no history of serious illnesses and be unmarred by bad breath or dental cavities. Officials from the No 454 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, said ... read more 
Melbourne (AFP) Aug 5, 2009Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Wednesday accused China of carrying out "psychological torture" on her children by forcing them to appear on state television to blame her for deadly unrest. Kadeer said her daughter Roxingul and jailed son Alim had taken part "against their will" in the CCTV news report, in which they said she incited last month's violence in the Xinjiang region which left ... more
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Trump says has asked Xi to release Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges Chinese man who documented alleged Uyghur camps risks removal from US Daughter warns China not to make Jimmy Lai a 'martyr' China sanctions retired Japan general over Taiwan 'collusion' International reaction to Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai verdict Japan's only two pandas to be sent back to China Asian markets drop with Wall St as tech fears revive Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media 'troublemaker' in Beijing's crosshairs What we know of Jimmy Lai's national security verdicts 
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Washington (UPI) Aug 4, 2009 In his remarks at the just concluded U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, U.S. President Barack Obama set the tone for the first-ever such meeting, saying the relationship between the two "will shape the 21st century." Carefully crafted words to characterize where the two countries, with diametrically opposed political systems, have arrived since they established diplomatic ties ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2009Residents of a town in northwest China where three people have died from pneumonic plague said Wednesday scared people were trying to leave despite a strict quarantine to contain the virulent disease. A fourth person was near death in Ziketan, a remote town of 10,000 people in a Tibetan area of Qinghai province, the official Xinhua news agency said. Another patient was in serious conditi ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2009A man who confessed to a murder for which an innocent man was wrongly executed is still awaiting trial in China, four years after admitting his guilt, a report said Wednesday. Hugejiletu was put to death in June 1996 for the rape and murder of a woman in the toilet of a textile factory in Hohhot, capital of the northern region of Inner Mongolia, the Beijing News reported. Hugejiletu, who ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 3, 2009Two children of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer have blamed her for deadly ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said Monday, but a spokesman for her group said their letters were fakes. It was not possible to immediately ascertain the authenticity of the two letters purportedly from Kadeer's son Khahar and daughter Roxingul, as well as her younger brother Memet, which were widel ... more  
Yixian, China (AFP) Aug 4, 2009The river has dried up, the well yields only dust, and Li Yunxi is hard pressed to irrigate his plot of land, even though he lives right next to the largest water project in history. The elderly farmer watches in despair as his corn crop wilts under the scorching northern China sun, knowing that a fresh, abundant stream is only a stone's throw away. "We ordinary people don't dare use tha ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 4, 2009Russia will boost monitoring at its border with China following an outbreak of pneumonic plague in a neighboring north-western region, Russia's top sanitary doctor said Monday. "Control over people crossing this border will be stepped up, including both Chinese and Russian nationals," Gennady Onishchenko said as quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency, adding that the region was fairly remote ... more |
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