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From Xinhua: China’s border police arrested nearly 2,500 Chinese stowaways from July last year to this June, preventing them from illegally stealing across national borders, said an official of the Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday. Chen Weiming, director of the border administration of the Ministry of Public Security, said at a news conference that […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: A Chinese lawyer who exposed a violent campaign of forced abortions and sterilisations by family planning officials in his home town is on trial this week after months under house arrest without charge. Chen Guangcheng, 35, has been detained on-and-off since August after highlighting the plight of women in Linyi, an area […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via ABS-CBN Interactive (thanks to Peking Duck): Cheap labor and lower start-up costs are luring foreign companies to Chengdu, helping to revitalize an ancient city in western China determined to close the gap with the more prosperous east. Chengdu, China’s western cultural and economic capital for centuries, has engineered a partial revival by […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A mainland online discussion forum called “Democracy and Freedom” has been shut down by the central authorities for the 48th time since it was founded in 2001 by a group of dissident writers. Independent news website Boxun reported yesterday that the latest Publicity Department shutdown came […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: In 2000, five men left their homes in northern China to escape the prospect of torture and imprisonment. They dreamed of a future in the United States. Caught up in America’s war on terror along the way, they instead ended up in Guantanamo. It’s been six years since they last saw their […]
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