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China said a riot that shook the capital of the western Xinjiang region killed 140 people and the government called the ethnic unrest a plot against its power, signalling a security crackdown.
Locals took to the streets of the capital, Urumqi, some...
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Since the crew of Apollo 17 returned from the moon in December 1972, no human has ever left low-Earth orbit. Five space shuttles, scores of Russian Soyuz capsules, the International Space Station, and more than 450 men and women have left the Earth...
Merchants in China say that American and European orders for the holiday season, for which sweaters are just starting to be knit, have fallen by as much as 30 percent. And the garments chosen by buyers from Western stores are noticeably skimpy, using...
oseph Zen, the former archbishop of Hong Kong, said the Vatican should harden its line towards Beijing and that a planned meeting of China’s officially sanctioned priests and bishops would be a “slap in the face” to Benedict...
In a rare admission for a Chinese leader, Premier Wen Jiabao said the government is partly responsible for the tainted milk scandal that has been blamed in the deaths of four babies and shaken consumer confidence.
A deadly strain of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed two more children in China, bringing the death toll in recent weeks to 32, state media said on Friday, as it praised a doctor who alerted authorities to the epidemic.
A Chinese man has survived a record-breaking 90 minutes immersed in a tank of ice.Wang Jintu, 43, from China’s southern Fujian province, performed his stunt at a club in Beijing, reports the Legal Evening Post.
Since the protests began, the Chinese government has consistently denied the high death tolls in Tibet. Exile groups claim as many as 100 people have died, many of them shot. The Chinese government claims only 16 have died, and they have denied shooting...
he Dalai Lama on Sunday called for an international probe of China’s treatment of Tibet, which he said is causing “cultural genocide” of his people.
The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet spoke at a news conference Sunday in Dharmsala,...
Chronic corruption in China, Vietnam and India could erode their economic competitiveness if they fail to reduce it, warned a report released Wednesday.
The three countries ranked among those seen as most corrupt in Asia in an annual survey of 1,400...
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