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Nepal has imposed a near-blackout on communications on its side of Mount Everest, trekking company officials said Tuesday, hours after the government acknowledged it had deported an American mountaineer caught at base camp with a “Free Tibet” banner.
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China has clamped down further on issuing business visas, government officials said Thursday, in the latest expansion of already-tight entry restrictions for next...
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According to the China Aid Association, Pastor Zhang Zhongxin has been sentenced to two years in a Chinese labor camp by Shandong Province authorities for participation...
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China will allow a modicum of dissent at the Olympics, setting up special protest zones far from the main sports venues, in a shift that supporters and detractors said...
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Residents in the last township to be moved to make way for the rising waters of the Three Gorges Dam reservoir have been relocated, a state news agency reported...
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Hundreds of people were evacuated Wednesday from the massive building that will house broadcasters from around the world when the Beijing Olympics open, fearing there...
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Beijing will set up specially designated zones for protesters during next month’s Olympics, a security official said Wednesday, in a sign China’s...
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Broadcast officials say the massive building housing television facilities for next month’s Beijing Olympics has been evacuated due to an apparent gas leak.
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U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group has dropped its bid to buy a stake in a Chinese construction equipment maker, the two companies said Wednesday, after multiyear...
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AP, Taipei
President Bush is committed to an $11 billion arms package for Taiwan, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said Wednesday, amid reports that the U.S. is...
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Beijing will set up specially designated zones for protesters during next month’s Olympics, a security official said Wednesday, in a sign China’s...
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Questions about salaries are out. Ditto queries about the age of a foreigner visiting Beijing for the Olympics. And an inquiry about someone’s love life? Forget...
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Dr Ram Baran Yadav has made history by becoming the first president of republic Nepal through a closely contested presidential run-off held Monday, thus fulfilling the...
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AP, Beijing
U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group’s bid to invest in a Chinese construction equipment maker has ended without a purchase, the Chinese company said Wednesday,...
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Hold up, the alternates for the U.S. women’s gymnastics team might be going to China, after all.
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Overwhelming numbers of Chinese say next month’s Olympics will help their country’s tattered image abroad, and they predict the Beijing Games will be...
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Strikingly large numbers of Chinese are happy with their nation’s direction and booming economy yet are deeply worried about rising prices, pollution and the gap...
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AP, Beijing
Chinese police investigating two deadly bus explosions in a southwestern city have not found any links between the blasts and next month’s Olympic Games,...
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Only seven pandas remain at China’s most famous breeding center, after a final group of 13 animals were transferred from the earthquake-damaged facility, an...
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Before starting off with a bang, Olympics is already in news for reason both good and bad. Just yesterday Olympics was here for green fire crackers and today its back...
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Twenty miners have escaped or been rescued from a flooded coal mine in southern China but six have died and 30 remain trapped, a state-run news agency said Tuesday.
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Nepal has deported an American mountaineer found on Mount Everest with a “Free Tibet” banner and has banned him from all climbing activities in the country...
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# China has signalled it would meet envoys of the Dalai Lama in coming days, following weeks of calls from world leaders for talks in the aftermath of anti-Chinese...
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AP, Katmandu
A mountain climber with a “Free Tibet” banner was forced to turn back from Mount Everest, which Chinese climbers carrying the Olympic torch plan to summit...
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India has taken extra security measures to guarantee the success of the Olympic torch relay here, the country’s Home Ministry said on Thursday.
Some 15,000...
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Another supporter of the Communist regime in China has been caught posing as a Tibetan and commiting violence in an attempt to demonize Tibetans as violent, nasty, and...
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Police seized explosives, a gun and banned Tibetan flags during searches of six monasteries in Tibetan areas of northwest China, a state news agency reported Tuesday.
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# Athletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer’s Games in Beijing under...
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AP, Paris
Paris’ Olympic torch relay descended into chaos Monday, with protesters scaling the Eiffel Tower, grabbing for the flame and forcing security officials to...
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According to the Dalai Lama’s Chinese translator, Ngawang Nyendra, a witness reported that a Chinese policeman in Lhasa disguised himself as a Tibetan and joined the...
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Unless western proponents of Tibetan liberation wish to be viewed as theocrats or 21st century feudalist sympathizers, they would do well to cease referring to Tenzin...
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Dozens of people have died in mass protests against Chinese rule in Tibet. Protestors on the streets of Lhasa set fire to Chinese...
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# Violent protests in Lhasa as Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans clashed with Chinese security forces puts the dragon in jeopardy like never before.
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