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Chinese Farmers Seize Excavators to Protest Forced Eviction

IT HAS BEEN long established that urbanization makes life better for everyone in today's globalization, but the situation seems to be a little different for China. While most developed countries achieved their urbanization through the gradual migration of their farmers … Continue reading

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Attack Vietnam and the Philippines, Chinese Newspaper Says

WAR: WHAT IS it good for? Well, for thrashing Vietnam and the Philippines so China can assert its claims in the South China Sea. That call for war wasn't made by a rogue Chinese general or a low-level Communist Party … Continue reading

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Beijing to Dalai Lama: Only We Can Choose Your Successor

THE CHINESE FOREIGN ministry warned the Dalai Lama on Monday that only Beijing can approve his successors and that any decision by the Dalai Lama to appoint a successor through traditional Tibetan reincarnation would break Chinese law. China's foreign ministry … Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Soldier ‘Tricked’ Into Firing on Tiananmen Protesters

TUCKED AWAY IN WikiLeaks' trove of a quarter million unredacted U.S. State Department cables released in the past few days is a harrowing, grisly anecdote of a Chinese PLA (People's Liberation Army) soldier who says he was "tricked" into firing … Continue reading

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Forbidden City Loses 100 Ancient Books

AMID A SERIES of scandals plaguing China's most esteemed cultural icon, a person claiming to be a Forbidden City employee said that 100 books, including ancient, string-bound, and printed books, are missing from the palace's museum.

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Forbidden City Sold 3,000 Armor Suits for 50 Cents Each

IN THE LATEST scandal in a string of allegations and cover-ups that have plagued the reputation of China's most esteemed cultural icon, Beijing's Morning Post reported on Thursday that the Forbidden City had sold 3,000 of its suits of armor for … Continue reading

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Dead Babies Used to Make Pills in China, South Korean Network Says

HOSPITALS AND ABORTION clinics in China, together with pharmaceutical companies, have been engaged in a dark and grisly trade, according to a major South Korean broadcaster: turning dead babies into powdered medicine. In an report aired on Aug. 6, the … Continue reading

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Water Inundates Chinese Airport Terminal, Workers Break Out Umbrellas

INSTEAD OF ENJOYING their new employment at a new airport terminal in southern China, workers at Changsha City's new Huanghua Airport had to tackle a waterfall of rainwater while holding up their umbrellas on Monday afternoon. The leaking began shortly … Continue reading

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Ex-World Champion Gymnast Begs at Beijing Subway Stations

UPDATE (July 28, 2011): As the story of former gymnast Zhang Shangwu went viral among Chinese netizens, Chinese billionaire-turned-philanthropist Chen Guangbiao offered Zhang a job at his company as a fitness instructor, with a salary of 10,000 yuan ($1,550) a … Continue reading

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Fake Chinese Taxi Carries Police Officer on Hood

A HERO WAS born in the southern Chinese city of Chengdu on Sunday when a taxi driver stopped a fake taxi, which had taken a police officer on its hood. The saga began when a blue taxi emerged on a … Continue reading

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