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44% increase in China's domestic security budget

 
China is spending as much on defence as on domestic security. It has earmarked $370 bn to combat increasing mass protests. Since 2007, the country ...
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China: Over 1,000 people arrested for 'endangering' state security

 
Chinese authorities have rounded up more than a thousand people on the charge that they have threatened tthe country's security',  Hong Kong-based human rights group, ...
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China: Dissident editor sacked

 
China has once again put dissident journalists on notice by sacking Zhang Hong, the deputy editor in chief of Beijing based weekly, Economic Observer’s Internet ...
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Fresh Trouble In Lhasa, Hundreds Rounded UP

 
Hundreds of Tibetans are being rounded up and detained in Lhasa and armed paramilitary groups are patrolling the streets in advance of the anniversary of ...
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China mulls closure of Internet cafés

 
Chinese authorities are seeking greater control of the country's estimated 140,000 plus internet cafes. One proposal under consideration enviages a total ban on these cafes ...
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China's poor swell in numbers, so do the rich

 
China has recorded its widest wealth gap since economic reforms began in 1978 threatening the social stability of the country, say experts.The average annual income ...
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China-born aerospace engineer gets 15 years for spying

 
A Chinese-born aerospace engineer, Greg Chung Dongfan ( 73) was jailed for more than 15 years in the United States on Feb 9  after being ...
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China Karaoke Bars Under Moral Censors

 
China’s popular Karaoke Bars have come under moral censors. Surveillance system is being fitted in these joints to let the authorities know when illegal music ...
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US sanctions on China symbolic

 
US sanctions are not coming in the way of Chinese companies doing ‘nuclear business’ with American firms, a study reveals. American companies are no less ...
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Google withdraws from China phone launch

 
Google has taken its first concrete step out of China, postponing the launch of two mobile phones produced specifically for the Chinese market, Jane Macartney ...
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Google threatens to leave China

 
Piqued by ‘attacks’ on its e-mail service, Google has threatened to pull out of China.A primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts ...
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Chinese human rights lawyer ‘missing’ in custody

 
A prominent Chinese lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, is reported to have “gone missing” while in the custody of the Chinese police. The Chinese authorities have told his ...
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Chinese democracy leader Zhou Yongjun jailed for 'fraud'

 
Chinese democracy leader Zhou Yongjun has been sentenced to nine years in jail, the latest in a series of tough prison terms to be handed ...
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Dhondup Wangchen makes a pro-Dalai film, lands in jail

 
'Leaving Fear Behind' a film that Chinese governmnt sees as pro-Dalai Lama, has landed its Tibetan maker Dhondup Wangchen in jail. He produced the film ...
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China sued for ‘stealing’ software

 
After 'filtering' Internt content and arresting 5000 people for visiting porn sites, the Chinese authorities are facing a piquant situation. An American software maker has ...
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China executes British 'heroin' smuggler

 
China executed on Tuesday a British citizen, Akmal Shaikh (53) on charges of smuggling heroin. He is the first national from a European Union country ...
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Black jails in China

 
In what is a first for China, a report with official imprimatur admits to the existence of secret detention centres across the country. Capital Beijing ...
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China gets an edge in cyber warfare?

 
Cyber warfare will provide China with an asymmetric advantage to deter aggression from stronger military powers and also allow it to leapfrog by means of ...
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'Godmother' of Chinese gangsters jailed for 18 years

 
One of China’s most notorious illegal casino operators, a 46-year-old woman who kept a stable of 16 young men as her lovers, was sentenced to ...
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China court sentences six Uighurs to death

 
A Xinjiang Court has sentenced six men to death on October 12 for murder and other crimes committed during July ethnic riots that left nearly ...
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New round of unrest in Xinjiang China

 
A new round of unrest broke out in China's restive Xinjiang on Sept 3, today, as protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against a ...
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China: Industrial pollution affects over 1300 children, Sparks protests

 
China's latest problem is lead pollution threat to children living in the vicinity of Wugang manganese smelting plant in Hunan province. Officials on Thursday announced ...
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China's Ethnic Minorities: Problems Of Integration

 
The bloody riots that erupted in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang province, in the first week of July 2009 evidently took the authorities by ...
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Property Bubble In China…?.

 
A property bubble in China? It is not a distant reality, according to analysts keeping close tabs on China’s real estate market.  The bubble is ...
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Crackdown continues in Urumqi

 
Chinese police are continuing the crackdown at Urumqi though one thousand persons were detained in the immediate wake of ethnic riots last month. The majority ...
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Xinjiang Unrest: Dalai voices concern; Friday Prayers banned

 
In the wake of ethnic unrest, Chinese authorities banned Friday prayer gatherings at mosques at Urumqi and other places across the Xinjiang region.  Foreign journalists ...
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Anatomy of unrest in Uighur belt of Xinjiang

 
One of the world's remotest regions, Xinjiang is China's Central Asian frontier. It is sparsely populated and borders Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia.The ...
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Ethnic Violence Claims 160 lives in China

 
Race riots in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province have claimed 160 lives since Saturday forcing President Hu Jintao to return home from the ...
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China 'arrests' pro-democracy campaigner

 
China has formally arrested dissident Liu Xiaobo (53)after holding him in detention for six-months at a secret location near Beijing. The Beijing Public Security Bureau ...
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China Detains Prominent Dissident, Cuts off Twitter, Hotmail,Flickr

 
With the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement on Thursday, Chinese officials have detained a noted dissident and cut off access to Twitter, ...
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Pak-China Tango On Terrorism

 
Pakistan has neatly compartmentalised its militants into two categories – useful and disposable to meet the foreign policy prescriptions vis-à-vis China, India and Afghanistan, says the author...
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Crackdown Against Falun Gong Continues

 
There is no let up in the Chinese crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners.Scores of its members have been sentenced to long terms in recent weeks. ...
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Japan Slams China Over Nukes

 
On the eve of Prime Minister Taro Aso’s 2-day official visit to Beijing, Japan has criticised China for withholding information about its nuclear weapons and ...
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Tibet, Dalai Lama and China

 
Chinese government considers activities by the so called `Dalai Clique’ as the biggest threat to Tibet and to China’s stability and development. While China’s antagonism towards the Dalai Lama is understandable, a breakthrough to the Tibetan imbroglio will not come unless Beijing revisits its policy framework. ...
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India Bans Chinese Toys For Six Months

 
India has banned import of a variety of Chinese toys, which are cheap and therefore very popular among the poor and lower middle classes. The Chiese toys are also sought by the rich because of their novelty valye. The ban apparently aimed at dumping and safeguarding the domestic toy industry will be in force for six months. It may be extended....
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