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Yahoo! News: World - China

China Tibet policymaker probed for state secret leak (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 03:18 AM CST

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, speaks during a function at the 'Lions Club', in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala November 20, 2008. (Abhishek Madhukar/Reuters)Reuters - A key Chinese Communist Party policymaker for Tibet is being investigated after her computer was hacked and classified documents stolen related to Beijing's talks with the Dalai Lama's envoys, sources said on Saturday.

Chinese social critic jailed for subversion: lawyer (AFP)

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 12:14 AM CST

A Chinese police car. A Chinese writer and social critic has been sentenced to three years in prison for subversion after posting articles on the Internet criticising the ruling Communist Party, his lawyer said(AFP/Robert Saiget)AFP - A Chinese writer and social critic has been sentenced to three years in prison for subversion after posting articles on the Internet criticising the ruling Communist Party, his lawyer said Saturday.

China hotel fire kills eight, injures 16 (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 09:49 PM CST

Reuters - A fire at a hotel in northern China has killed eight people and injured 16 others, state media said on Saturday.

Amnesty urges China not to execute convicted spy (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 09:38 PM CST

A policeman in front of a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. A London-based rights group said Saturday that China was preparing to execute a Chinese businessman convicted of spying for Taiwan, and urged Beijing to halt the execution(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - A London-based rights group said Saturday that China was preparing to execute a Chinese businessman convicted of spying for Taiwan, and urged Beijing to halt the execution.

China, Taiwan hold historic meeting (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 08:56 PM CST

Taiwan's former Kuomintang Deputy leader Lien Chen (R) and Taiwan's Affairs Office representative Wang Yi arrive for a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Lima.(AFP/Alfredo Estrella)AFP - Chinese President Hu Jintao met here with a senior Taiwan envoy in the highest-level meeting to take place overseas between the rivals since their split in 1949.

UN body criticises China over 'widespread' torture allegations (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 08:21 PM CST

Several hundred of 200,000 pro-democracy student protesters, seen in 1989, face to face with policemen outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. A UN body on Friday expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China and called on the country to fully probe rights abuses.(AFP/File/Catherine Henriette)AFP - A UN body has expressed deep concern over allegations of widespread torture in China and called on the country to fully probe rights abuses.

Hu signals ambitious China role in fighting crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 08:20 PM CST

Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao spelled out on Friday a potentially ambitious role for his country in staving off a deep global recession as he and U.S. President George W. Bush prepared for a weekend summit of leaders from Asia and the Americas.

Bush, Hu discuss North Korea ahead of APEC summit (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 08:06 PM CST

President Bush walks across the South Lawn to board Marine One at the White House, November 21, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush held talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program with Chinese leader Hu Jintao on Friday, the first in a series of meetings U.S. officials hope will lead to a renewal of six-party talks by early December.

'Nostalgic' Bush meets with China's Hu (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 06:48 PM CST

View of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial meeting in Lima. US President George W. Bush on Friday was to urge Chinese President Hu Jintao in a meeting here Friday to call a new round of North Korea denuclearization talks for early December, the White House said.(AFP/Rodrigo Arangua)AFP - US President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday discussed the global economic crisis and efforts to speed the process of ending North Korea's nuclear programs, the White House said.

Bush presses Hu on new NKorea talks (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 03:42 PM CST

View of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial meeting in Lima. US President George W. Bush on Friday was to urge Chinese President Hu Jintao in a meeting here Friday to call a new round of North Korea denuclearization talks for early December, the White House said.(AFP/Rodrigo Arangua)AFP - US President George W. Bush on Friday was to urge Chinese President Hu Jintao in a meeting here Friday to call a new round of North Korea denuclearization talks for early December, the White House said.

UN panel urges China apology to 1989 protesters (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 03:18 PM CST

AP - A U.N. panel urged the Chinese government on Friday to apologize to the victims of its crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square 19 years ago.

Long after Olympics, Bird's Nest still draws crowd (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 02:50 PM CST

School children pose for a photo during a class visit to China's National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Since the Olympic Games ended in August, some 35,000 to 40,000 visitors a day have streamed through the 91,000-seat stadium, according to ticketing officials. The enormous interest in the Olympic venues signal that the collective national pride and excitement built up over the Games remains in force, a big payoff domestically on the government's $40 billion gamble at showcasing a more open and modern China. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - The spectacular fireworks were long over and the Olympic athletes had all gone home. But for Cai Shanhai and his wife, He Jingfeng, it was still a moment to savor as they stared up at the soaring steel arches of the Bird's Nest national stadium this week.

Chinese journalist sentenced to 3 years (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 08:30 AM CST

AP - A Chinese writer and journalist who was arrested after protesting against a power plant in southwest China was sentenced Friday to three years in prison on charges of subverting state power, his lawyer said.

China refuses to budge on Tibet amid talks (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 06:37 AM CST

China has accused the Dalai Lama, seen here on November 20, of covertly campaigning for Tibetan independence, maintaining its hardline opposition to his approach as Tibetan exiles met in India.(AFP/File/Strdel)AFP - China accused the Dalai Lama on Friday of covertly campaigning for Tibetan independence, maintaining its hardline opposition to his approach as Tibetan exiles met in India.

China has only identified 19,000 quake victims: official (AFP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 06:16 AM CST

A pigeon stands next to markers for a mass grave of earthquake victims in China's Sichuan province. Only 19,000 victims of the devastating earthquake that struck China's southwest six months ago have been identified, fewer than a quarter of the total dead or missing.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - Only 19,000 victims of the devastating earthquake that struck China's southwest six months ago have been identified, fewer than a quarter of the total dead or missing, a top official said Friday.

China: 19,000 victims identified from May quake (AP)

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 04:26 AM CST

In this Friday May 23, 2008 file photo, a mother holds a picture of her son who was killed in the previous week's earthquake during a memorial service at a primary school in Mianzhu, in China's southwest Sichuan province. China has acknowledged for the first time that more than 19,000 students died in the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - A little over a quarter of the 70,000 people who died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May have been identified, a Chinese official said Friday, as authorities rushed to prepare stricken areas for the coming winter.

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