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Beijing says Dalai Lama shows anti-China bias

BEIJING—China said it expressed grave concern to India about a visit by the Dalai Lama to a state in the country's northeast at the heart of a long-running border dispute, saying it showed an anti-China bias. Tibet's spiritual leader is scheduled to ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, Boston Globe,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dalai Lama

Qian Xuesen, anticommunist unease drove rocket scientist out of US

BEIJING - Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China’s space technology program, died yesterday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 98. Dr. Qian began his career in the United States and was regarded as one of the ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, Boston Globe,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Xinhua,  Yang Liwei,  Wen Jiabao,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  California Institute of Technology

Father of China's space tech program dies at 98

BEIJING - Qian Xuesen, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Xinhua,  Yang Liwei,  Wen Jiabao,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  California Institute of Technology

Group: 2 Tibetans executed in China over riots

Two Tibetans have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year, the first known executions for the violence, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday. Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak, who goes by one name, were sentenced to death in ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, eTaiwan News,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Xinhua,  Human Rights Watch,  Ivan Lewis

2 Tibetans executed in China over riots last year

BEIJING - Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known executions for the violence, an overseas monitoring group said Tuesday. ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Xinhua,  Yang Jiechi,  Human Rights Watch,  Ivan Lewis

Gang crackdown, lurid mob trials transfix China

After she refused a corrupt cop's demand that she turn her teahouse into an illegal casino, three thugs beat Chen Yanling with electric batons, sending her to the hospital for nearly a month. Chen is now getting some vicarious revenge, joining ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, eTaiwan News,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: City University of New York,  Chiang Kai-shek,  Xinhua

Traditions fade as China settles nomads in towns

GENHE CITY, China—Herding reindeer and hunting bears and boars in the forests on Siberia's fringe was Gu Gejun's life. Now his rifle has been confiscated, and the only reindeer he herds are in an urban tourist park. China has moved most of the small ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, Boston Globe,  5 Oct 2009

Study says China quake a once in 4,000 years event

China's devastating earthquake last year that left some 90,000 people dead or missing was caused by a geological event that occurs about once every 4,000 years, a study led by Chinese researchers said Sunday. Researchers said the 7.9-magnitude ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, eTaiwan News,  28 Sep 2009

Study: China's devastating '08 quake a once-in-4,000-years event

China have said there were no signals that could have predicted the May 12 quake on the Beichuan fault line in the Longmen zone, though the fault lines in that area of western China are well known. BEIJING — China's devastating earthquake last year ...

From HENRY SANDERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  27 Sep 2009

China clamps down ahead of holiday

BEIJING - China has closed Tibet to foreign tourists and deployed soldiers armed with machine guns in the streets of Beijing - part of a raft of stringent security measures ahead of the 60th anniversary of communist rule. Even kite flying has been ...

From HENRY SANDERSON, Boston Globe,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Hu Jintao,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

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