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From the New York Times: A chicken illegally smuggled across the border from mainland China has died here of bird flu, Hong Kong officials announced late today in a case that raises new questions about whether Chinese provincial officials are concealing the true extent of the disease. A villager living half a kilometer from the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: First came thousands of police and troops to guard the roads, then hundreds of officials to monitor residents, and finally the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to share Lunar New Year celebrations with ordinary citizens. At a time when the Chinese government is worried by rising social unrest, Wen and other national leaders this […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: While much of the Chinese society rejects same-sex relations, universities in the country are becoming more liberal, according to a recent survey to discover more about the levels of homosexuality on Chinese university campuses. Jiang Qiuyu and five of her classmates, from the Beijing-based China University of Nationalities, had posted […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Senior Russian and Chinese officials are due in Tehran as early as Wednesday to stress international concern at Iran’s nuclear programme and urge co-operation ahead of an expected reporting of the case to the UN Security Council this week. The visit by officials from two countries sympathetic to Iran follows an […]
Read MoreFrom Infoworld.com: After outrage from many of its own employees over its abrupt censoring of a Chinese blogger, Microsoft has formulated a new policy to deal with requests from a government that alleges posted material violates its laws. The measures were detailed by Microsoft’s (Profile, Products, Articles) top lawyer, Brad Smith, at the Government Leaders […]
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