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Punishment of Rights Lawyers Top 2016 Achievement

China on Sunday boasted harsh punishments meted out to rights defenders was the legal system's top accomplishment last...

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Vietnam King Kong Premiere Ruined By Monster Fire

Film buffs with the hottest ticket in town were left running for safety after a giant model of King Kong went up in...

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China Cuts Growth Target To 6.5%

The Chinese growth target for this year has been cut to around 6.5%, down from 6.5 to 7% last year, Premier Li Keqiang...

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Chinese Protest Against South Korea’s Lotte

Dozens of people holding Chairman Mao posters protested in China's Jilin province on Sunday, calling for a boycott of...

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China Vows Blue Skies Despite Economic Challenges

China will work to clear its skies by increasing investment in clean energy and punishing polluters, Premier Li Keqiang...

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China Trims GDP Target, Citing ‘grave Challenges’

China's premier warned Sunday that the world's second-largest economy faces "grave challenges", signalling a further...

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Key Points On China’s Annual Parliamentary Meeting

Thousands of politicians from across China have converged on Beijing for the country's annual legislative meetings...

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China 2017 Growth Target ‘around 6.5%’

China on Sunday trimmed its 2017 GDP growth target to "around 6.5 percent" as the world's second-largest economy,...

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China To Outline National Priorities As Congress Opens

China's rubber-stamp legislature opens its annual session on Sunday with Premier Li Keqiang due to announce the...

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BBC Team Forced To Sign Confession

The plan was a simple one. We'd arranged to meet a woman in her village in China's central Hunan Province and to then...

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China Counts Over 100 Billionaires Among Top Communist Legislators

China counts more than 100 billionaires among its top legislators, with 209 of the richest holding wealth nearly...

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Financial Risks Hang Over China Legislature Meeting

China's rubber-stamp legislature convenes this weekend with the script focused on containing worrisome economic risks...

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China Holds Mass Police Rally In Xinjiang As Hundreds Sent To Anti-Terror ‘frontline’

More than 10,000 armed police in China's western Xinjiang region staged a mass rally in the capital Urumqi, state media...

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Victims Demand Justice 70 Years After Bloody Taiwan Massacre

For Pan Hsin-hsing the sight and smell of lilies held a particular horror for many years -- the pungent flowers...

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Oil Giant Taps China’s Vast Geothermal Reserves

Chinese state-run energy giant Sinopec has drilled hundreds of wells across the country without finding a single drop...

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NBA Legend Yao Ming Named Chinese Basketball Chief

NBA Hall of Famer Yao Ming called for "urgent" reform and said he was facing a multitude of problems as he was elected...

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Chinese Police In Restive Xinjiang To Track Cars By GPS

A prefecture in China's restive Xinjiang region has ordered all vehicles to be equipped with GPS-like tracking...

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China Awards Trump Valuable New Trademark

The government of China awarded U. S. President Donald Trump valuable rights to his own name this week, in the form of...

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Former Detained Hong Kong Bookseller

The disappearance of a Chinese billionaire from his Hong Kong hotel has brought back frightening memories for...