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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2009 
China will this week put more than 200 people on trial over last month's deadly ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, with security tight due to fears of fresh violence, state media said Monday. The trials will take place in the Intermediate People's Court in Urumqi, the capital of the mainly Muslim northwest region where violence in early July left at least 197 people dead, the China Daily reported ... read more 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 24, 2009Taiwan's government on Monday confirmed that 292 people were killed and 385 missing after Typhoon Morakot struck the island and caused its worst flooding in half a century earlier this month. Those still unaccounted for include 311 from the southern village of Hsiaolin, the National Fire Agency said. With the hope of finding bodies fading, an increasing number of people still hunting for ... more
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Brussels (AFP) Aug 24, 2009The world of Belgian homing pigeons is in a flap over fears that Chinese criminal gangs are bumping off their prized racers, after a gruesome discovery in the northern town of Antwerp. Last week a passerby spotted two men of Asian appearance dumping rubbish bags in a wood in Mol, near the Dutch border. The two men were driving a car with French plates, according to the witness, who took ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2009China has settled nearly 50,000 Tibetan nomads into sedentary communities in a drive to protect the remote alpine region's fragile ecology from their herds, state media said Monday. Xinhua news agency said 49,631 people from nomadic families were settled over the past four years under a policy that Tibetan activists decry as destructive blow to the Buddhist region's ancient culture under ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2009A leading Chinese rights lawyer suddenly freed from detention may escape prosecution if he pays a fine for tax evasion allegedly committed by the group he co-founded, his attorney said Monday. Although Xu Zhiyong was allowed to walk out of a Beijing detention centre on Sunday after being locked up since late July, authorities have not abandoned the accusations of tax evasion that led to his ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 23, 2009The worst drought to hit parts of north China in six decades has left nearly five million people short of water, while officials warn of another dry spell further south, state media reported Sunday. A total of 4.6 million people and 4.1 million head of livestock face difficulty accessing drinking water in the north, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing the State Flood Control and Drought ... more 
Beijing (UPI) Aug 21, 2009 Taiwan's government is receiving strong criticism over its untimely and disorganized rescue efforts in the wake of Typhoon Morakot, which lashed Taiwan from Aug. 7-9. Public dissatisfaction could hurt the ruling Kuomintang Party in December's local elections and beyond. As of Tuesday, official figures on known damage caused by the typhoon were 127 deaths, 307 missing and 45 injured, as ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 21, 2009Clean-cut 23-year-old design graduate Chen Chuang sprayed a whitewashed wall in central Beijing in broad daylight with big jagged blue letters -- his clan's signature -- before scurrying away. "It's not really against the law," said his friend Liu Yuchen. Chen quickly added: "But once you get caught, it can be very serious." Chen and Liu are members of a small but growing group of ... more |
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