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Girls stand in line during the opening ceremony of a training camp in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, March 8, 2010. Nearly 300 girls from across China began a 2-month trainning session Monday in Hangzhou and Shanghai in preparation for their work as hostesses during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

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Hong Kong's top lawyers and Chinese officials are trading blows over the legality of a new campaign for democracy in the former British colony that frames an upcoming special election as a de facto referendum on political reform.

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Hundreds of Tibetans, including Buddhist monks and nuns, Wednesday remembered their forefathers' uprising against the Chinese annexation of their land in 1959 and chanted slogans for a free Tibet in Kathmandu despite a massive police crackdown and arrests.

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The Dalai Lama has lashed out at Chinese authorities, accusing them of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet as he commemorated a failed uprising against China's rule over the region.

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WASHINGTON—Two years after protests against Chinese rule erupted into rioting in the Tibetan capital and spread across western China, sporadic talks between Beijing and envoys of the Dalai Lama appear to have achieved little progress.

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Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising

IMAGINE you are one half of a young couple expecting your first child in a fast-growing, poor country. You are part of the new middle class; your income is rising; you want a small family. But traditional mores hold sway around you, most important in the preference for sons over daughters.

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Chinese authorities sentenced a popular Tibetan singer to 15 months of 're-education through labour' after he released an album containing lyrics deemed political, US-based Radio Free Asia said Monday.

The broadcaster said it obtained a copy of a document declaring that Tashi Dhondup was sent to a labour camp in his home province Qinghai because he had 'violated laws' by singing songs in support of Tibetan independence and Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

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After storming Africa, resource-hungry China Monday made a big opening into the Latin American mineral market by inking a USD 1-billion deal with Canadian copper major Quadra Mining Ltd for a stake in its copper operations in Chile.

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The Chinese government says that it will have the final say, rather than the Dalai Lama, on who succeeds him as Tibet's spiritual leader.

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LHASA, China — The troops with automatic rifles patrolling the Tibetan quarter of the capital of Chinese-controlled Tibet are as ever-present as Buddhist pilgrims.

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Ahead of the 51st anniversary of a failed uprising by Tibetans against the invasion and annexation of their country by China, Nepal police Sunday arrested the envoy of exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama in Kathmandu.

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Nepal police arrest Dalai Lama’s representative

President Ma Ying-jeou is in a hurry to sign an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement so he can realize his ultimate aim of unification with China, reports quoted experts yesterday.

Ma and his government have been pushing for the ECFA to be signed in May or June, despite widespread opposition within Taiwan.

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China shed a glimmer of light yesterday on the life of a young Tibetan man who vanished 15 years ago after the Dalai Lama declared him to be the reincarnation of the second-highest monk in Tibetan Buddhism.

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China is farming African wild Rhinos in order to harvest their horns for alleged medicinal properties, a newspaper reported Sunday quoting a report by international conservation monitors.

China has imported 141 live white rhino from South Africa since 2000 - far more than is needed to promote tourism - with the possible aim of setting up rhino farms, the Sunday Times quoted the report as saying.

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A PIG deserves at least 12 hours being alone, some walking, patting, and music if possible, before being slaughtered, a central China city authority has ordered.

Zhengzhou City Commerce Commission said it imposed the requirements as a part of a humane slaughter campaign. They said a peaceful slaughter would add more flavor to the pork, the Henan Business Daily reported yesterday.

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China has asked Japan to offer an appropriate resolution to the plight of eight Chinese victims forced into serving as "comfort women" for Japanese soldiers during World War II.

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Last December, the South Korean government found itself walking a tightrope while planning to join the international troops in Afghanistan.

It was a complexity created by a number—number “4” to be precise.

As it happened, South Korea was the 44th member to join the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force fighting the insurgents in Afghanistan. The number “44” bothered the government.

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The grandson of Mao Zedong lost his bearings at the symbolic heart of the nation his grandfather founded and had to rely on aides to rescue him from a press pack. Mao Xinyu, who is a senior colonel in the People's Liberation Army, was mobbed by journalists upon leaving the opening session of China's parliament in Beijing.

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By Peter J Brown

Japan's Okinotori Island, which has a Tokyo postal address even though it lies roughly 1,770 kilometers south of the capital and it is actually a pair of tiny islets, has become a bone of contention for China.

Among other things, China refuses to grant it island status, and refers to it instead as an atoll, reef or simply a rock. By doing so, China hopes to throttle back Japan's plan to create an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) there. The dispute over Okinotori, which Japan calls Okinotorishima, persists because it involves strategic concerns and rights to undersea resources over an area that is roughly equivalent to the entire land mass of the four main Japanese islands.

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China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.

The government must immediately invest some of its new wealth in ensuring that children take regular exercise, Beijing Sports University president Yang Hua told the sports group of the largely ceremonial advisory body to China's annual parliament.

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Le Monde's Bruno Philip reports on how strategic Chinese construction projects are encircling India, raising fears that new facilities could be used by China for military purposes should a regional conflict erupt

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(TibetanReview.net, Mar05, 2010) A group of 15 journalists from China and other foreign countries began on Mar 2 a tour of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) as part of China’s propaganda effort on the region’s progress and development since 1959. In order to ensure positive coverage, the State Council Information Office, organizer of the tour, have carefully selected the reporters from ten domestic and overseas media organizations.

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The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding a small brown and white kitten in her hands. She gently places the cat on the tiled pavement and proceeds to stomp it to death with the sharp point of her high heel.

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BEIJING - At a time when the thoughts of Chinese philosopher Confucius are enjoying a revival both inside China and outside the country in the form of Confucian Institutes, the first complete English translation of the work of Confucius' earliest philosophical enemy, Mozi, has been published in Hong Kong [1].

Confucius and Mozi [2] engaged in fierce debates in the fourth and third centuries BC and Mozi was possibly more popular, but by the 19th century he was all but forgotten.

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Beijing - China plans to use cloud seeding to bring much-needed rain to five south-western regions hit by their worst drought in nearly 60 years, state media said Thursday. The China Meteorological Administration said weather bureaus in the five regions were preparing to use 2,116 shells of silver iodide to seed clouds in an operation budgeted at 2 million yuan (294,000 dollars), the official China Daily reported.

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Thirteen Chinese newspapers have boldly published a joint editorial calling for Chinese to be given freedom of movement across the country.

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For immediate release (Stockholm/Oslo) China is preparing for the Arctic being navigable during summer months. An ice-free Arctic would provide China shorter shipping routes, possible access to natural resources and the incentive for closer cooperation with Arctic nations, especially the Nordic countries. But it also raises the possibility of new international tensions, according to a new SIPRI study launched in Oslo today.

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Thai government has rejected visa for Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's sister Jetsun Pema who was scheduled to give a speech at a cultural event this weekend.

Thai Foreign Ministry said the rejection was decided out of fear that the Jetsun Pema, a younger sister of Dalai Lama, would use the visit to deliver a political message and that would certainly upset China.

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This music video by a young Chinese girl has been spreading on Kaixin001 as “A recently very popular girl — A computer + a mobile phone + a camera = legendary MV [music video]“.

The music video (3:39) is named “ABCD Said” and is claimed that all the music was made with the Apple iPhone 3Gs. On Youku, it has been viewed over 1.25 million times already.

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Despite recent government reports that China's holdings of U.S. Treasury debt declined during the second half of last year, the Asian economic giant almost certainly owns far more Treasury securities than official statistics indicate.

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