Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'false records'
Police Probe Attack on Activist
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 31, 2010 The beating of an exposer of fraud highlights recent attacks against members of the Chinese media. A leading Chinese campaigner against academic fraud and fake remedies is recovering as police investigate a brutal attack...
Travel Bans For Activists
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 05, 2010 People previously allowed free movement are now having problems leaving China Chinese lawyers, academics, and rights activists say that authorities are increasingly targeting them through immigration controls, with a growing number of people prevented...
A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...
Violence Near Tech Park
By Radio Free Asia19 July 2010 Residents want Beijing to investigate graft allegations around a property deal. Thousands of people surrounded government offices near Suzhou's flagship high-tech industrial park in recent days, sparking clashes between riot police and residents angry...
N Korea and China leaders 'meet'
By BBC World NewsMay 06, 2010 North Korea's Kim Jong-il is reported by South Korean media to have met China's president ahead of expected talks with China's premier. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Mr Kim met President Hu Jintao...
China stripped of 2000 gymnastics medal for underage athlete
By Chris Chase | for (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! SportsApril 28, 2010 China was stripped of a team all-around bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics on Wednesday because it fielded an underage gymnast. Dong Fangxiao was discovered to be 14 at...
Milk Activist Trial Censored
By Radio Free Asia01 April 2010 China blacks out news about the trial of an activist who helped victims of a tainted milk scandal. Chinese authorities have taken swift steps to censor online news and information about the trial of...
China Says Lawyer 'Sentenced'
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 17, 2010 But one year later, Gao Zhisheng remains missing. China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi has referred to a "sentencing for subversion" in the case of rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for more...
Cabbie Dies in Custody
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 15, 2010 A suspicious death in detention sparks questions. A taxi driver in southern China has died while serving a short detention as punishment for a traffic violation, according to the man's wife. Liu Zhengguo, a driver...
School Construction Critic Gets Prison Term in China
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2009 A lengthy prison sentence for a rights activist shows the determination of Chinese officials to suppress any vestige of dissent related to shoddy construction and unnecessary deaths in last year's...
China projecting Kashmir as a separate country?
MalaysiaNews(.net)October 19, 2009 Besides issuing separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir, an issue that has irked New Delhi, China is now showing the state as if it is an independent country.Visitors to Tibet, especially journalists invited...
Decision time for China...
Gulf Daily News - The Voice of BahrainOctober 07, 2009 Sixty years ago, his army victorious, Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Tiananmen Square and announced a new era for China after a terrible civil war...
China Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists' Rise
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesOctober 2, 2009 CHANGCHUN, China -- Unlike in other cities taken by the People's Liberation Army during China's civil war, there were no crowds to greet the victors as they made their triumphant...
Lead Children Denied Tests
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 26, 2009 Parents in China say authorities are failing to make good on promises to test children for lead poisoning. Promises by local government officials offering free blood tests to children affected by pollution from smelting...
Clashes Over Quake Trial
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 13, 2009 Chinese writer Tan Zuoren goes on trial, and supporters say his plan to issue an independent report on last year's deadly earthquake is the reason. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have...
Despite Law, Job Conditions Worsen in China
By David Barboza | The New York Times June 23, 2009 Liu Pan, a 17-year-old factory worker, was crushed to death last April when the machine he was operating malfunctioned. Somehow Mr. Liu became stuck in the machine, his sister...
U.S. manufacturers, retailers see more China risk
By Nick Zieminski | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 21, 2009 U.S. manufacturers and retailers that get products or components from China are increasingly concerned about quality, intellectual property and rising costs in China, and more are looking at...
No blame in China school collapse
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsMay 08, 2009 China says it has found no evidence that human negligence caused schools to collapse during last year's earthquake. Thousands of schools were damaged while buildings nearby remained intact in the massive...
1.9 lakh killed in China's nuclear tests ***
*** lakh is a unit in the Indian measuring system 1.9 lakh = 190,000 Thus title means 190,000 killed in China's nuclear testsThe Times of India - April 19, 2009 The nuclear test grounds in the wastes of the Gobi...
Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 11, 2009 ZHONGLOU, China -- When an underground fire killed 35 men at the bottom of a coal shaft last year, the telltale signs of another Chinese mining disaster were everywhere: Black...
China athletes 'faked their age'
By BBC World NewsMarch 16, 2009 Bone tests on teenage athletes in south China have shown that thousands had faked their age, often in order to keep competing in junior events. Tests on nearly 13,000 athletes found that more than...
Parents of China Milk Scandal Victims Detained
By REUTERS | The Epoch TimesJanuary 02, 2009 BEIJING--A group of parents whose children fell ill from drinking tainted Chinese milk have been detained by police apparently trying to block them from holding a news conference, one of the fathers...
"Made in China" label battered by product scandals
By Ben Blanchard - REUTERS - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 08, 2008 Milk, toothpaste, cough syrup, pet food, eels, blood thinner, car parts, pork, eggs, honey, chicken, dumplings, cooking oil and rice -- if you can fake it or taint...
FDA to detain food shipments from China
The Associated Press | Los Angeles TimesNovember 13, 3008 WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials today ordered dozens of imported foods from China held at the border as possible health risks. Most are ethnic treats, including snacks, drinks and chocolates.It's unusual...
Courts Compound Pain of China's Tainted Milk
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesOctober 17, 2008 The first sign of trouble was powder in the baby's urine. Then there was blood. By the time the parents took their son to the hospital, he had no urine...
International Gymnastics Federation investigats China's 2000 Olympics team
By Associated Press | International Herald TribuneSeptember 24, 2008 The investigation into the ages of China's gold-medal women's gymnastics team has been expanded to include members of the 2000 team that won a bronze in Sydney, the Associated Press has...
Records Say Chinese Gymnasts May Be Under Age
By JERÉ LONGMAN and JULIET MACUR | The New York TimesJuly 27, 2008 China named its Olympic women's gymnastics team on Friday, and the inclusion of at least two athletes has further raised questions, widespread in the sport, about whether the...
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