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Report says 3 set themselves on fire in China (AP)

info — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:35:30 +0000

AP – Three more people have set themselves on fire to protest China’s policies toward Tibetans in a politically sensitive area that has already been the scene of ethnic violence this year, a report said Sunday.
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McCain ruffles Beijing with talk of Chinese Arab Spring (Reuters)

info — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:31:00 +0000

Reuters – U.S. Senator John McCain warned China’s Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun on Saturday that “the Arab Spring is coming to China” and highlighted the number of Tibetans burning themselves to death in his country.

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Merkel unhappy China blocked lawyer from meeting (AP)

info — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:11 +0000

AP – German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed regret Saturday that Chinese police blocked a human rights lawyer from meeting her and said the Communist government should have the confidence to allow dissent.

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Sudan rebels "seeking way" to hand over abducted Chinese (Reuters)

info — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:24:48 +0000

Reuters – Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan’s government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight.
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Canadian PM to visit China next week (AP)

info — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:23:22 +0000

AP – Canada’s prime minister heads to China next week where he’ll discuss Canada’s vast oil reserves in a visit that’s being viewed as an “open warning” to the United States, which rejected a pipeline from Canada to Texas.
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Gas blast kills 11 coal miners in southwest China (AP)

info — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:14:30 +0000

AP – State media say an explosion at a coal mine in southwestern China has killed 11 miners and injured six.
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Wen says China has no intention to 'buy Europe'

info — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:11:48 +0000

China's Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday the Asian giant had neither the ability nor the intention to "buy Europe", amid concerns over growing Chinese investment in debt-stricken eurozone economies.
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Chinese lawyer barred from meeting with Merkel (AP)

info — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:55:05 +0000

AP – A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer says police prevented him from attending a meeting with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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HK’s China policies spur clash with mainland cousins (Reuters)

info — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:54:52 +0000

Reuters – As Hong Kong’s outgoing leader Donald Tsang looks ahead to retirement, an unusually toxic public debate over the burden placed by a flood of mainland Chinese visitors has struck at the heart of Hong Kong’s often rocky transition from British colony to Chinese special administrative region that began in 1997.
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Analysis: China gets restive taste of post-Dalai Lama era (Reuters)

info — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:54:35 +0000

Reuters – China over the years has derided the Dalai Lama as a jackal in Buddhist robes, choreographer of a separatist Peking opera and, lately, instigator of a plot that led some Tibetans to set themselves on fire and other forms of protest.
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