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News Source: Sify News
| 5 months ago
Activists and U.S. lawmakers looking to highlight the 20th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown at Tiananmen Square are finding their efforts overshadowed by the emergence of a China crucial to U.S. economic and diplomatic efforts around the world.
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
SEF, two organizations authorized by the Chinese mainland and Taiwan to handle cross-Straits issues, held three rounds of talks in June 2008, November 2008 and April 2009. During the first two talks, the two signed agreements on weekend charter...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
On June 4, 1989 Chinese tanks rolled into the center of Beijing, crushing the country's pro-democracy movement and killing scores of protesters. Twenty years later, former student leaders and Chinese immigrants gathered in Washington to mark the...
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News Source: South Africa News
| 5 months ago
There was a huge security clampdown on the square Thursday, 20 years after the events of 4 June 1989 in an attempt by authorities to prevent any commemoration of the bloody clampdown that left hundreds and perhaps thousands dead. On Friday, China's...
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News Source: The Journal Gazette
| 5 months ago
Mainland China remained quiet Thursday on the 20th anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, but tens of thousands of people staged a protest in Hong Kong. Beijing, the capital, was on virtual lockdown. Key foreign news Web sites were...
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 5 months ago
Beijing — From Friday's Globe and Mail, Thursday, Jun. 04, 2009 08:53PM EDT T o stand on Tiananmen Square yesterday, surrounded by hundreds of plainclothes security men clutching dainty umbrellas – watching you watching them – was to witness...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
It was the strongest possible answer by the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong to the Chinese government's efforts to sweep the memory of the Tiananmen massacre under the carpet. A huge crowd, which the organisers said numbered 150,000, gathered at...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
Thousands of people in Hong Kongmark the 20th anniversary of the massacre A bewildering level of security surrounded Tiananmen Square yesterday, with thousands of plain-clothes officials, uniformed police, and soldiers patrolling the vast plaza as...
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News Source: The Scotsman
| 5 months ago
Tiananmen Square yesterday to prevent any attempt to mark the 20th anniversary of the killing of hundreds of pro-democracy protesters. Two decades on, even as the country's booming economy turns it into a world power, the political repressions that...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 5 months ago
In Tiananmen Square , police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong , a sea of candles flickered in the hands of tens of thousands who vented their grief and anger...Tiananmen Square was blanketed by uniformed and...