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Report: Tibetan monks protest New Year prayer ban (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2009 04:48 PM PST AP - Defiant Buddhist monks banned from marking a key Tibetan New Year prayer festival marched in protest in China's southwest, rights groups and officials said. It was the latest resistance to Chinese rule ahead of sensitive anniversaries in Tibet.

Chinese man bids but won't pay for looted bronzes (AP) Posted: 02 Mar 2009 11:00 AM PST AP - A Chinese art collector revealed himself Monday as the man behind the winning bids for two imperial bronzes auctioned at Christie's over Beijing's objections, then announced he had no intention of paying the $36 million.

Chinese forces surround Tibetan monastery after protest: activists (AFP) Posted: 02 Mar 2009 09:54 AM PST AFP - Security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in a tense region of southwest China after monks held a rally a week before the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising, activist groups said Monday.

Victor Hugo's popularity in China (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 02 Mar 2009 02:53 AM PST McClatchy Newspapers - The French writer Victor Hugo has become very fashionable in China rather suddenly.

China says food safety situation still grim (AP) Posted: 01 Mar 2009 10:09 PM PST AP - China's food safety situation is still grim, although some improvements have been made in the wake of a scandal last year that killed at least six babies and made another 300,000 sick, the Health Ministry said Monday.

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