Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'news'
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...
China's monster traffic jam rears its head again
By Scott McDonald - AP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News August 28, 2010 China's monster traffic jam has reared its head again, with trucks and cars backed up for up to 18 miles (30 kilometers) Saturday on a highway north...
Canada Calls on Chinese Embassy to Give Back Journalist's Passport
By Matthew Little and Jason Loftus | The Epoch TimesAugust 18, 2010 The office of Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has called on the Chinese embassy in Ottawa to return a Canadian journalist's passport, which he said was withheld...
Tensions Over Chinese Mining Venture in Peru
By Simon Romero for The New York TimesAugust 14, 2010 In its worldwide quest for commodities, China has scoured South America for everything from Brazilian soybeans to Guyanese timber and Venezuelan oil. But long before it made any of those...
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...
Politics Intrude in Mosque
by Radio Free Asia03 August 2010 A Chinese propaganda event in a religious space offends Uyghurs Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority in northwest China have expressed anger and concern about controls over imams after a local Communist Party committee...
China defends business ties with Iran
By AFP - Agence France Presse (via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News)August 04, 2010 China has defended its business dealings with Iran after a senior US official called on Beijing to follow UN sanctions against the Islamic republic to the letter. The...
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...
Lawyers' Licenses Withheld
By Radio Free AsiaJuly 18, 2010 Chinese authorities use the annual license inspection to intimidate lawyers. Chinese authorities have refused to renew the professional licenses of several prominent rights lawyers in this year's inspection. Other rights lawyers were forced to...
China tourism plan a Trojan horse
By VietNamNet BridgeJuly 18, 2010 China's recently announced tourism development plan has been slammed as a Machiavellian ploy to claim sovereignty over Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos. "This trick is very clever, taking the name of...
Chinese Artist Who Led Protest Has Been Jailed, His Wife Says
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJuly 08, 2010 Wu Yuren, an artist who helped lead an unusually bold public protest last winter over a land dispute, has been languishing in a Beijing jail for almost six weeks after...
Tibetan environmentalist gets 5 years
By RADIO FREE ASIA4th of July 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist is sentenced on charges of "splittism" a week after his brother's trial. Award-winning Tibetan environmentalist Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison on charges of...
Chinese court sentences US geologist to 8 years
By Charles Hutzler - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 05, 2010 An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry...
Uyghurs: New Details on Arrests
By Radio Free Asia May 26, 2010 Chinese authorities are still detaining a number of Uyghurs without charge after the Urumqi unrest. New accounts detailing the detention of ethnic Uyghurs in northwest China in the wake of deadly unrest show...
While China Stands By
Editorial | The New York TimesMay 27, 2010 There is only one country with any chance of getting through to North Korea. That is China, the North's major supplier of aid, food and oil. As tensions on the Korean Peninsula...
China tries to balance fallout of Korean tensions
By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer | AP | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 26, 2010 Rising tensions over North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship are providing an unwelcome reality check for Pyongyang's chief ally, China. Only months ago,...
Crackdown on Tibetan Ringtones
By Radio Free AsiaMay 21, 2010 Authorities in Tibet ban popular ringtones characterized as 'separatist.' Students and teachers at a high school near the Tibetan city of Shigatse have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell...
Lawyer Barred from Going Abroad
By Radio Free AsiaMay 17, 2010 A recently disbarred rights lawyer says he has been banned by Chinese border police from leaving the country. Attorney Tang Jitian said in an interview Monday that he had been stopped by security officers...
China AIDS Activist Flees to U.S. After Harassment
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via abcNEWSMay 10, 2010 China AIDS activist leaves for U.S. with family after government harassment intensified A prominent Chinese AIDS activist has fled China for the United States with his wife and...
Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia07 May 2010 Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted a major earthquake. Tibetan herders in the remote western Chinese province of Qinghai have hit out at a mining company after it sank deep shafts into...
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...
Chinese Military Seeks to Extend Its Naval Power
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesApril 26, 2010 The Chinese military is seeking to project naval power well beyond the Chinese coast, from the oil ports of the Middle East to the shipping lanes of the Pacific, where...
Monks Told To Go Home
By Radio Free Asia April 20, 2010 Chinese authorities tell monks aiding quake rescue efforts to leave. As China declared a day of mourning for the more than 2,000 people killed in an earthquake in western Qinghai province, authorities told...
Researchers Trace Data Theft to Intruders in China
By John Markoff and David Barboza | The New York TimesApril 05, 2010 Turning the tables on a China-based computer espionage gang, Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored a spying operation for the past eight months, observing...
For 13th Time, Critic of China's Government Is Barred From Leaving Country
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesMarch 02, 2010 Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human...
China to Be Short 24 Million Wives, Study Says
By The Associated Press | The New York TimesJanuary 12, 2010 Abortions of girl fetuses are expected to leave China with 24 million more men than women over the next decade, according to a study that warns the imbalance will...
AP: Feds probe cadmium in kids' jewelry from China
By Associated Press - Justin Pritchard | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 11, 2009 Moving swiftly, U.S. product safety authorities say they are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children's jewelry imported from China after...
Miami agents seize dangerous toys from China
Nirvi Shah, The Miami Herald | South Florida Sun-Sentinel December 23, 2009 Customs agents in Miami have seized several shipments of toys from China considered dangerous by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The toys contained hazardous materials, including lead paint,...
Argentine judge asks China arrests over Falun Gong
By Luis Andres Henao | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News December 23, 2009 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of China's former President Jiang Zemin and another top official for "crimes against humanity" in...
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...
China protests PM's visit to Arunachal; India disappointed
Indo-Asian News Service | Hindustan TimesOctober 13, 2009 India expressed disappointment over China's protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, whose ownership is disputed by Beijing. "We express our disappointment and concern over the statement made by...
China Tightens Grip on Rare Minerals
By Keith Bradsher | The New York Times01 September 2009 China is set to tighten its hammerlock on the market for some of the world's most obscure but valuable minerals. China currently accounts for 93 percent of production of so-called...
Timeline: Xinjiang unrest
By BBC World NewsJuly 8, 2009 Ethnic violence has erupted in China's western province of Xinjiang, with scores of people being killed and hundreds injured. Here are some of the most recent developments: 5 JULY A small number of Uighurs...
Mexico lashes out at China for quarantine
By Gillian Wong - Associated Press | HeraldNet, Everett, WashingtonMay 05, 2009 Mexican officials angry about China's decision to quarantine more than 70 Mexicans over swine flu fears sent a plane Monday to the communist country to bring its citizens...
Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 11, 2009 A bias in favor of male offspring has left China with 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls, creating "an imminent generation of excess men," a study...
Chinese Hunger for Sons Fuels Boys' Abductions
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMES April 05, 2009 The thieves often strike at dusk, when children are playing outside and their parents are distracted by exhaustion. Deng Huidong lost her 9-month-old son in the blink of an...
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...
Possible Link Between Dam and China Quake
By Sharon LaFraniere | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 06, 2009 Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, left 80,000 people dead or missing, a growing number of American and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the calamity...
The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn't Care to Listen To
By Edward Wong | The New York Times November 19, 2008 URUMQI, China -- An exhibit on the first floor of the museum here gives the government's unambiguous take on the history of this border region: "Xinjiang has been an...
Factories Shut, China Workers Are Suffering
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMES November 14, 2008 CHANG'AN, China -- Wang Denggui, father of three, arrived more than a year ago in the palm-lined streets this southern town with a single goal: toil in a factory...
A note from the editors of this website
May 12, 2008 We deeply mourn the loss of thousands of innocent lives as a result of the terrible earthquake that struck the Sichuan province in China at mid-afternoon today....
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