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Oct 15 2009
Six people were sentenced to death Thursday for their involvement in a deadly ethnic riot in western China in July, the official Chinese news agency reported. Three of the convicts had their sentences suspended for two years. Three defendants were...
Jul 15 2009
INTERNET addicts should stop receiving electroshock therapy because it doesn’t work, the Chinese Health Ministry says. Nearly 3000 youths have undergone electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, or electroshock) at Linyi Mental Health Hospital, resident...
Jul 3 2009
Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas. An investigation by the state-owned Southern Metropolis News found that about 80 girls in one county had...
Oct 23 2008
Chinese internet users have reacted with fury after Microsoft launched an anti-piracy tool to combat the widespread sale of fake software.
Oct 18 2008
In a modest move toward greater openness, China said Friday that it would permanently ease restrictions on foreign news media operating in the world’s most populous country.Under the rules, signed by Premier Wen Jiabao, foreign journalists...
Oct 9 2008
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports on how China’s one-child policy and foreign adoptions are prompting tens of thousands of abductions every year.
Aug 13 2008
– With the Olympics in Beijing in full course there has been more violence reported in the western region of Xinjiang: three security guards were killed and a fourth wounded at a road block near Kashgar, the border city that was theatre to the assault...