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China marks 50 years since exile of Dalai Lama

BEIJING—Testimonials about the misery of life in old Tibet kicked off celebrations Saturday for the newest holiday on China's political calendar -- an anniversary that marks the communist government's overturning of the region's feudal ...

From ANITA CHANG, Boston Globe,  28 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Dalai Lama,  Abraham Lincoln

China marks 50 years of Communist rule in Tibet

China's government applauded itself Friday for overturning Tibet's feudal hierarchy 50 years ago and bringing in economic development with a celebration of a newly created anniversary that has added to tensions in Tibetan areas. Senior Communist ...

From ANITA CHANG, eTaiwan News,  27 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Dalai Lama

China's milk victims complain of intimidation

BEIJING—Local authorities have been pressuring at least a half-dozen families of victims in China's tainted milk scandal into dropping lawsuits demanding compensation from the dairies, victims' advocates said Tuesday. Zhao Lianhai, father of a child ...

From ANITA CHANG, Boston Globe,  17 Mar 2009

China defends Tibet policies ahead of riot date

BEIJING—China's premier defended Beijing's policies in Tibet on Friday and ignored questions about a massive security buildup in the Himalayan region, a day before the anniversary of deadly rioting that sparked the biggest anti-government protests ...

From ANITA CHANG, Boston Globe,  13 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Dalai Lama,  Wen Jiabao

SARS whistleblower wants apology from China

A Chinese doctor detained for nearly 10 months after he revealed the true scale of Beijing's SARS outbreak in 2003 and called for a reassessment of a crackdown on the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square has said in a new letter that he wants an ...

From ANITA CHANG, Taiwan News,  12 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Hu Jintao

Police block events ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

The move to ban a film screening and series of speeches appeared to be a step by Beijing to tighten control ahead of the June 4 anniversary of the student-led democracy demonstration. Discussion of the protests and the subsequent military crackdown — ...

From ANITA CHANG, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Feb 2009

China: Up to 26 million migrants now jobless

BEIJING (AP) -- As many as 26 million migrant workers are unemployed as China's exporters reel from effects of the global economic slowdown, a top rural affairs official said Monday, noting that widespread unemployment could threaten the country's ...

From ANITA CHANG, Buffalo News,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Wen Jiabao

China: Up to 26 million rural migrants now jobless

BEIJING — The global economic crisis has taken hold deep in China's impoverished countryside, as millions of rural migrants are laid off from factory jobs and left to scratch a living from tiny landholdings — creating unsettling prospects for a ...

From ANITA CHANG, Newsvine,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: People's Bank,  Wen Jiabao

Chinese man gets death sentence in milk scandal

A Chinese court has handed down a death penalty to a man convicted of endangering public safety in the first sentencing connected with a contaminated milk scandal that shocked the country. Zheng Shuzhen, center, the grandmother of a baby who ...

From ANITA CHANG, Taiwan News,  22 Jan 2009

2 death sentences given in China milk scandal

SHIJIAZHUANG, CHINA A Chinese court condemned two men to death Thursday and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences for those involved in the country's contaminated milk scandal. The Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang ...

From ANITA CHANG, Globe and Mail,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Wang Wei

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