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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s television regulator has ordered a crack down on dramas about the country’s battles with Japan during and before World War II and demanded they be more serious, state media said on Friday, following viewer complaints about ludicrous storylines Ties have been shadowed for years by what Beijing says has been Tokyo’s refusal to admit to wartime atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in the country between 1937 and 1945, something taught to every Chinese school child and a staple of television dramas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China. The sentences, handed down yesterday by a court in the southern province of Long An, were the latest in an intensified crackdown against dissent in the one-party, authoritarian state. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Political artworks from the first decade after the Cultural Revolution – by artists in the new arts hub museum collection that is yet to be seen by the public – will go on show across the harbour tomorrow. Over 100 works by 22 artists – including Ai Weiwei , Ma Desheng and Wang Keping – are featured in the “Light Before Dawn: Unofficial Chinese Art 1974-1985″ exhibition at the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, ahead of next week’s Art Basel debut in the city. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 29-year-old deputy county head of Jieyang in Guangdong has been demoted to the rank of clerk after internet users questioned whether his father, who held the post before him, had a hand in his son’s fast-track promotion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China on Wednesday accused the United States of sowing discord between China and its neighbours after the Pentagon said Beijing was using espionage to fuel its military modernisation, branding Washington the “real hacking empire”. The latest salvo came a day after China’s foreign ministry dismissed as groundless a Pentagon report which accused China for the first time of trying to break into US defence computer networks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two Communist Party mouthpieces yesterday reported the controversy in Hong Kong over the HK$100 million donation to earthquake victims in Sichuan – pointing the finger at the Red Cross Society of China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Communist Party papers remark on Hong Kong quake donation row, quoting pan-dems
By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A group of 30 Malaysian students, most of whom were too young to vote, gathered on Monday at the Democracy Wall at Hong Kong University to vent their deep distrust of Malaysia’s election results that brought the governing coalition its 13th straight election win. The messages they posted on the wall included: “I am against Dirty Politics” “Unfair! Rigged!” “I want democracy, not magic” and “Democracy is dead”. The posters were written in Chinese, English and Malay. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> E! Online says hackers compromised its Twitter and text messaging accounts, sending out erroneous news alerts about Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Hong Kong Red Cross has promised to monitor the use of the HK$12 million it has received in donations to help survivors of last month’s earthquake in Sichuan province. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, silencing the complex for the first time since it was launched nine years ago in a seemingly distant era of reconciliation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Peering at graphic pictures of supposed US biological warfare efforts during the 1950-53 Korean war, Zhang Ping tugs on the sleeve of a visiting foreign reporter to complain about the barbarism visited on his compatriots during the conflict. “Too terrible, those Americans,” he mutters, standing at a war museum on the Chinese side of the North Korean border, pointing out the pictures of infected animals and insects which China and North Korea say the United States dropped to poison their enemies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China’s emotional ties to North Korea run deep in border city
By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A powerful blast in an abandoned university laboratory in Nanjing left one person dead and three injured yesterday. The explosion destroyed the lab at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology and shattered windows in nearby homes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Construction worker killed by blast at Nanjing University
By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police have arrested all 19 suspects in connection with a deadly clash that began after authorities saw terrorists making explosives in China’s western region of Xinjiang, propaganda officials and state media reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Wrapped in a saffron robe, Buddhist monk Wirathu insists he is a man of peace. Never mind his nine years in prison for inciting deadly violence against Muslims. Never mind the gruesome photos outside his office of Buddhists allegedly massacred by Muslims. Never mind that the man dubbed “Burma’s bin Laden” has emerged as the spiritual leader of a pro-Buddhist fringe movement accused of fuelling a campaign of sectarian violence. Wirathu insists the world has misunderstood him. “If they knew my true ideas, they would call me saviour,” he says. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yi Fuxian was trained as a clinic medicine specialist before obtaining a PhD in medicine in the United States, but the Hunan native is better known as a staunch critic of the mainland’s one-child policy, or family planning as authorities prefer to call it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nato said on Thursday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is being won, despite reports by other agencies of a sharp upsurge in insurgent attacks this year. “While numerous challenges remain, there are some basic facts that highlight the improved security across the country,” said US General Joseph Dunford, head of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have imposed a heavy security presence, exiled Buddhist monks and reports said on Thursday. More than 100 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2011 to protest Chinese policies in the region and call for the return of their beloved spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, from exile. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 20 people, including police officers and social workers, were reportedly killed on Wednesday in violent clashes in China’s ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, what is being described as a “terror incident”. “Twenty-one persons were killed in all… including social workers and policemen,” an official surnamed Cao from the provincial government’s news office said of the incident, which, he added, occurred on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Top Communist Party unit to tighten rules on rapid promotions
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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