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Shouting 'Long live the Dalai Lama,' nun burns to death in Tibet
A Buddhist nun in China's western Sichuan province burned herself to death on Thursday, bringing to 11 the number of Tibetan clergy and former clergy who've set themselves on fire since March. | 11/04/11 15:41:00 By - Tom Lasseter
Tibetan nun dies after setting self on fire in latest protest death
A Buddhist nun in China’s western Sichuan Province burned herself to death on Thursday, bringing to 11 the number of Tibetan clergy and former clergy who’ve set themselves on fire since March. | 11/04/11 08:19:51 By - Tom Lasseter
Tibetans' self-immolations lead China to crack down harder
The young man's hands began to shake, and he tugged at his fingers to keep them still. The 20-year-old ethnic Tibetan was terrified of the police finding out that he'd spoken about the Buddhist monks who've been burning themselves alive. "They're doing it because they want freedom," said the man, a livestock trader who asked that his name not be used because of safety concerns. | 11/01/11 14:32:00 By - Tom Lasseter
China cuts access to lawyer who fought one-child policy
When he was asked whether it was possible to drive down the country lane to the village of Dongshigu, the man in black wanted to know, "What are you up to?" Told that a passenger in the back seat worked for a newspaper, the plainclothes guard gave a guttural yell. Then he lunged through the car's half-open window and tried to drag away the journalist's Chinese translator. | 10/24/11 16:02:00 By - Tom Lasseter
After 100 years, corruption still a major problem in China
As the 100th anniversary of the revolt that ended 2,000 years of imperial rule in China passes next week, Beijing's central leadership increasingly finds itself trying to clamp down on local officials who run their turf like mafia dons. | 10/06/11 14:30:00 By - Tom Lasseter
Some Chinese named in WikiLeaks cables nervous, but so far unharmed
When the WikiLeaks website released its full set of 251,287 unredacted U.S. State Department cables two weeks ago, it lifted the curtain on hundreds of Chinese who've met with American embassy officials over the years. That sudden unveiling has left both the cables' sources and observers of Beijing wondering whether the Chinese government will crack down. | 09/14/11 14:44:00 By - Tom Lasseter
In China's gold capital, soaring prices do little to lift miners
As flames swept through the Luoshan Gold Mine late one afternoon in August 2010, men began dropping dead. By the next day, 16 people had died, most of them from choking to death on smoke and fumes. A year later, with the price of gold hovering at near-record levels, locals say that not much has changed down in the mines of Zhaoyuan. | 09/02/11 14:36:00 By - Tom Lasseter
Biden visits China amid crackdown on writers, dissidents
As Vice President Joe Biden meets with Chinese leadership this week, he'll do so in a country that for the most part has silenced the few remaining dissident voices in a particularly harsh clampdown this year. | 08/18/11 14:46:00 By - Tom Lasseter
Woman's rape case shows pitfalls of Chinese justice
In March 1997, Jia Hongling was raped by a low-level manager of a mining company in Henan Province. Jia, then 28, reported the sexual assault to the police in her hometown of Jiyuan in central China. In July, the policeman investigating the case raped her too. It took Jia eight years of filing complaints before the first man was sentenced to five years in prison. The policeman was never brought to trial. | 08/14/11 14:02:00 By - Tom Lasseter
China slams U.S. debt situation in fierce editorial
China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, issued a scathing condemnation of American economic practices on Saturday, saying that mounting debts and ridiculous political wrestling in Washington have damaged America's image abroad. | 08/06/11 13:13:00 By - Tom Lasseter
After wreck, it's not just railway safety that worries Chinese
More than anything, the aftermath of the high-speed train wreck last month in Zhejiang province has come to underline the fact that for all of China's enormous economic growth, the nation is still overseen by an opaque, authoritarian regime frequently plagued by corruption. It' a system that relies in large part on the promise of material progress for its people, with the threat of heavy-handed tactics for those who step out of line. | 08/01/11 16:25:00 By - Tom Lasseter
Admission of design flaw in China rail crash raises more questions
A Chinese railway official said Thursday that the deadly crash between two high-speed trains last weekend was due to design flaws in crucial equipment that failed to flash the correct signals after a lightning strike. But those remarks and others by Chinese leadership did little to ease confusion and anger over Saturday’s accident, which killed at least 39 people and wounded more than 190. | 07/28/11 09:04:20 By - Tom Lasseter
Chinese skeptical of explanation for high-speed rail crash
Public criticism grew Tuesday in China over the government's explanation for the weekend crash of two high-speed trains that killed at least 39 people and injured more than 190. The brewing dissatisfaction offered a rare challenge to China's reputation for being able to build massive infrastructure at a rapid clip. | 07/26/11 13:07:00 By - Tom Lasseter
Death toll in crash of bullet trains in China reaches at least 35
The death toll from a crash of two bullet trains in eastern China climbed to at least 35 on Sunday as questions continued to grow about the nation's ambitious and controversial plans to extend its high-speed rail system. | 07/24/11 14:21:00 By - Tom Lasseter
U.S.-China military ties still a work in progress
Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, paused before boarding a plane provided by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He turned to the Chinese senior colonel who'd spent part of Tuesday afternoon escorting him around an army air base in eastern Shandong province and shook hands. | 07/13/11 16:08:00 By - Tom Lasseter
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