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May 4, 2012         6:39 am The State Department said Friday that it expects China to quickly provide travel documents to blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, easing a weeklong crisis between Beijing and Washington over the fate of the long-imprisoned lawyer. Victoria Nuland, the chief State Department spokeswoman, said in a statement [...]

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April 27, 2012         1255 GMT A prominent Chinese human rights activist has called for an investigation into corrupt and cruel officials after he escaped from house arrest in an eastern province and fled to Beijing. Chen Guangcheng addressed the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, in a video posted on YouTube on Friday, [...]

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April 11, 2012         2:44AM The senior Communist Party figure at the centre of China’s most sensational political scandal in decades, Bo Xilai, has been suspended from the party’s ruling elite amid revelations his wife has been named a prime suspect in the murder of British national Neil Heywood. Mr Heywood, who [...]

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April 11, 2012          2:44AM The senior Communist Party figure at the centre of China’s most sensational political scandal in decades, Bo Xilai, has been suspended from the party’s ruling elite amid revelations his wife has been named a prime suspect in the murder of British national Neil Heywood. Mr Heywood, who [...]

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April 11, 2012       2:44AM The senior Communist Party figure at the centre of China’s most sensational political scandal in decades, Bo Xilai, has been suspended from the party’s ruling elite amid revelations his wife has been named a prime suspect in the murder of British national Neil Heywood. Mr Heywood, who died [...]

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December 16, 2011         7:52 am “Batman” star Christian Bale  — with a television crew in tow — attempted to visit a blind Chinese human rights activist under house arrest. Bale, who had been in China promoting a new film, “The Flowers of War,” didn’t succeed in meeting with the activist, Chen Guangcheng. Instead, he [...]

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23 July 2011   10:22 ET An express train has derailed in eastern China, the country’s official news agency Xinhua says. Two of the train’s coaches fell off a bridge after derailing in Zhejiang province, local fire fighting sources were quoted as saying. It is not known if there any casualties. The train was travelling from [...]

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July 6, 2011 What do Jiangsu Province, the minor pop idol Jiang Yirong and Huadong Hospital in Shanghai have in common? Over the past day, these and scores of other words and expressions have been blocked on much of the Chinese Internet, a result of the government’s unrelenting attempt to quash widespread rumors that the [...]

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07/3/11 10:34 AM ET A two-year-old Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 stories from her family’s apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing by, state media reported Sunday. The toddler was in critical condition Sunday with internal bleeding and other unspecified injuries while the woman who saved her suffered a broken [...]

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                            June 17, 2011 9:35 p.m. EDT The authorities here are obviously nervous. My crew and I are sitting in a local government building being questioned by six propaganda officials. One of them is scribbling down our credentials in a worn pocket-sized [...]

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5 January 2011 Last updated at 02:31 ET The World Bank has issued its first bond denominated in the Chinese currency, joining a small but fast-growing market. The yuan-denominated bond is being issued to promote the use of the Chinese currency in international markets. It will raise 500m yuan ($76m; £49m). Other bodies, including the [...]

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November 29, 2010 2:39 a.m. EST Joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States continued in the Yellow Sea on Monday as tensions with nearby North Korea continue to brew. On Monday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said South Korea will “firmly” respond to future provocations from North Korea and declared that his [...]

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