2008年8月30日星期六

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Olympic protest grannies escape punishment as order revoked (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 03:26 AM CDT

79-year-old grandmother Wu Dianyuan (left) and her friend, 77-year-old Wang Xiuying, talk to journalists at Wu's home in Beijing on August 22. The two who were grandmothers sentenced to re-education through labour for applying to protest during the Olympics will escape punishment as the order has been rescinded(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin)AFP - Two Chinese grandmothers sentenced to re-education through labour for applying to protest during the Olympics will escape punishment as the order has been rescinded, a rights group said Saturday.

China revokes sentence for elderly protesters (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2008 01:08 AM CDT

AP - Chinese authorities have reversed their decision and will not send two elderly women to a labor camp after they applied to protest during the Olympics, a human rights group said Saturday.

Beijing cancels sentence for elderly women (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 11:56 PM CDT

Reuters - Two elderly women have won a reprieve from a sentence to one year in labor camps handed down after they sought permission for a protest during this month's Beijing Olympics, a rights group said.

Police in China shoot dead 6 suspects in Xinjiang (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 11:19 PM CDT

AP - Chinese police investigating a spate of attacks this month in western Xinjiang province shot dead six suspects and arrested three others, state media reported.

Chinese police kill six in Xinjiang clash: reports (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 10:58 PM CDT

Chinese police patrol in Kashgar's main square in the famed Silk Road city on August 8. Chinese police have killed six people and arrested three others during a clash in the restive Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang, state media have reported(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese police killed six people and arrested three others during a clash in the restive Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang, state media reported on Saturday.

China reports two policemen killed in latest Xinjiang unrest (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 01:52 PM CDT

Chinese police patrol in Kashgar's main square in the famed Silk Road city on August 8. Chinese police have killed six people and arrested three others during a clash in the restive Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang, state media have reported(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Two policemen were killed and five others injured in China's restive Xinjiang region, authorities said Friday, bringing the reported death toll from a wave of violence there this month to 33.

Magnitude 5 quake hits Tibet, no damage reported (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 10:29 AM CDT

Giant pandas from the earthquake-hit Wolong nature reserve areas are seen at the Bingfengxia Giant Panda Centre in Ya'an, Sichuan province August 27, 2008. Nineteen giant panda cubs were born in captivity after the May 12 earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, researchers said and reported by China Daily. Picture taken August 27, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA). CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.AP - A magnitude 5 earthquake struck Tibet on Friday near the border with Nepal, close to an area hit earlier in the week by a stronger quake that damaged hundreds of homes.

Miners trapped in illegal mine in China, police told two days late: reports (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 09:16 AM CDT

A coal miner is pictured after a day's work in China. Nine miners have been trapped underground in north China for more than two days after the illegal mine they worked in collapsed and police were only told Friday, local police and state media said.(AFP/File)AFP - Nine miners have been trapped underground in north China for more than two days after the illegal mine they worked in collapsed and police were only told Friday, local police and state media said.

China cannot back Russia in Georgia crisis: analysts (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2008 09:00 AM CDT

Georgians march towards the Russian peacekeepers base in the village of Khanti, western Georgia, to stage a protest. China will not endorse Russia in its battle with the West over the Georgia crisis but cannot say so publicly for fear of upsetting Moscow, political analysts say.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)AFP - China will not endorse Russia in its battle with the West over the Georgia crisis but cannot say so publicly for fear of upsetting Moscow, political analysts say.

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