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China says progress made on human rights
Beijing :: China | over 2 years ago
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China said Sunday it has made progress on human rights, pointing in particular to improved living standards, but an international rights group quickly described the government's assessment as unrealistic. Human Rights Watch said
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Petition Urges Nobel for Jailed Chinese Writer
Beijing :: China | over 2 years ago
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In a move sure to irk the Chinese government, a group of 300 scholars, lawyers, factory workers and retired government officials have signed a petition calling on the Nobel Peace Prize committee to award this year's prize to Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned
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China could get its first Nobel laureate
Shanghai :: China | over 2 years ago
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After more than a century of exclusion, many are hoping China will next month join the ranks of Nobel Prize winning nations. The world's fastest growing economy has little hope of seeing one of its citizens top the list for the medicine, science or
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Chinese Web Forum Asks 'Netizens' to Speak Up, but Not Too Loudly
Beijing’s Communist Party has launched a new online bulletin board for Chinese “netizens” to communicate directly with government leaders. In a country where free speech can be met with police action, the open forum appears
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The yin and yang of human rights in China
Hong Kong :: China | over 2 years ago
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The only lady vice minister in China's Foreign Ministry is Fu Ying, a well-coiffed, mild-mannered 57-year-old, an ethnic Mongol who speaks flawless English, who has served as ambassador to the Philippines, Australia and Britain, and who is known for
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China detains democracy advocate for new activism
Beijing :: China | almost 3 years ago
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A Chinese democracy activist who has already spent a decade in prison has been detained again, a human rights group said Wednesday. Liu Xianbin was taken into custody by police in Suining city in southwestern Sichuan on Monday
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US Calls China Rights Dialogue Candid, Respectful
Beijing :: China | 3 years ago
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The sides agreed to hold a follow-on meeting next year in Beijing. The Obama administration, like its predecessors, has been critical of China's human rights record and U.S. officials acknowledge disagreements in the Washington meetings. But they are
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CHINA: Women Activists on the Forefront of Human Rights Movement
Beijing :: China | 3 years ago
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Thirteen years ago a local official in north-east Chinas Heilongjiang province tried to extort money from a woman named Liu Jie, who operated a successful cow farm...In retaliation, the official destroyed her farm and stole her cows. She took her
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PEN NZ Calls for the release of Liu Xiabo
Beijing :: China | 3 years ago
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The writer and former Czech President Vaclav Havel has nominated Liu Xiabo for the Nobel Peace Prize. The German writer Herta Müller, as winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature last year, is not permitted to make such a nomination but has spoken out
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China: Beyond Communist rule and capitalist change, what's the real story?
Shanghai :: China | 3 years ago
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Those with only a casual interest in the country can easily feel that they have to pick between these two options – and that doing so isn’t simple. Not when the sound bites about and punditry on China is shaped by a sort of bipolar disorder, toggling
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