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China moves to prosecute dissident who led call for sweeping political reform
Beijing :: China | 1 day ago
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Liu Xiaobo lobbied to abolish a vaguely worded Chinese law against subversion, but now it appears the high-profile dissident will stand trial for that very crime. A year after secretly detaining him, police have finally filed a case against Liu, accusing...
Tags: China Moves, Liu Xiaobo, Mr. Liu, China, Beijing, Charter 08, Liu, PEN, Liu Xia, Constitution of China, Law Crime
China cracks down on file-sharing sites
Beijing :: China | 1 day ago
Credibility China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites in what it says is a fight against copyright infringement, but could be seen as another measure aimed at controlling what content the country's Web users can find online...A report in the...
Tags: sharing sites, China, Beijing, Web 2.0, Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party, Politics, Website, University of Punjab alumni, Pakistani politicians, Technology Internet, Instant messaging, Ravians, Internet Relay Chat, File sharing, Yousaf Raza Gillani, Content-control software, Inter-Services Intelligence, Punjabi people
Breathless in Beijing --
Ulaanbaatar :: Mongolia | 2 days ago
Credibility What’s the big deal you might ask, but in Beijing, where water has to be provided to a staggering 16 million people, it’s something to wallow in...China, no doubt mindful of its reputation in the ’democratic’ world as an abuser of human rights and other...
Tags: Beijing, China, Tiananmen Square, Barack Obama, subway lines, Great Wall, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, World Heritage Sites in China, Tiananmen, Forbidden City, North China Plain, Sino-American relations
Vic premier skips Dalai Lama address
Beijing :: China | 2 days ago
Credibility The Tibetan spiritual leader spoke to more than 100 people on Wednesday in a private address organised by the informal group, Victorian MPs for Tibet. In a speech that lasted more than 30 minutes, the Dalai Lama promoted peace, harmony and secularism...
Tags: 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism, Bloomington, Indianapolis, China, Beijing, Lhasa, Politics of Tibet, Tibet, 14th Dalai Lama, Politics, Tibetan independence movement, Lama, Buddhism, Dharamsala, Nyingma, Arjia Rinpoche, Heart Sutra, Tibetan unrest, Western Shugden Society, Religion Belief
China sends website owner to jail
Beijing :: China | 2 days ago
Credibility The Chinese operator of a website selling thousands of pirated Hollywood DVDs has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and fined by a Beijing court. The Motion Picture Assn. said the verdict represents a �milestone� in its efforts to get local enforcement...
Tags: MPA, China, Beijing, Tort law, Copyright, United States copyright law, Crimes, Copyright infringement, Law Crime
China executes rogue trader, millions still missing
Beijing :: China | 2 days ago
Credibility China on Tuesday executed a former securities trader for embezzlement, the first person in the industry to be put to death, but millions of yuan are still missing, a state newspaper said. Yang Yanming was sentenced to death in late 2005 and took the...
Tags: China, Yang Yanming, Beijing, Business Finance, Beijing Securities, Yang Yan, Yuan, Social Issues
Nepal's PM to visit China: aide
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 3 days ago
Credibility Nepal's prime minister will this month make his first official visit to neighbouring China since taking office in May, an aide said Tuesday. Madhav Kumar Nepal, leader of the coalition government that this year took over from the Maoist-led administration,...
Tags: Madhav Kumar Nepal, China, Beijing, prime minister, Nepal, Kathmandu, Politics, Republics, Nepalese Civil War, Nagendra Prasad Rijal, Newar, Prachanda
India needs patience to deal with China: Rao
Ifs :: France | 3 days ago
Credibility Meanwhile, her predecessor, Shivshanker Menon, had been a blue-blooded Indian Foreign Service (IFS)--his father, uncle, grandfather and father-in-law had all been top diplomats--whereas Rao, having topped her batch in 1973, had made use of every opportunity...
Tags: India-Pakistan Agra, China, Delhi, Beijing, foreign secretary, Nirupama Rao, France, Ifs, Surnames, Shiv Shankar Menon, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Rao, Tea, Manmohan Singh
Rural demand at the core of Beijing's new economic drive
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Beijing promised to bolster rural demand by raising agricultural subsidies, increasing the minimum purchase prices for grain crops, investing more in infrastructure and improving public services to outlying areas. The nation's leaders also vowed to maintain...
Tags: Beijing, rural demand, China, United Kingdom, London
China food watchdog welcomes media supervision on food safety
Beijing :: China | 3 days ago
Credibility Sichuan Province were reportedly abusing the use of food additives in fresh juices. Spokeswoman Yan Jiangying said at a regular press conference that officials and experts had been dispatched to check almost 7,000 eating venues in the province, both...
Tags: China, Beijing, Environment, Xinhua News Agency, Health in the People's Republic of China, Melamine, State Food and Drug Administration, Triazines, Food safety, Amines, Disaster Accident, Economic history of the People's Republic of China
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