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| Jan.13 |
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Scuffles halt China iPhone sales |
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| Jan.16 |
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Chinese economy slows at year end |
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| Feb.5 |
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Beijing defends Syria veto at UN |
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| Feb.13 |
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China vice-president in US visit |
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China's Xi defends rights record 
China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, has defended his country's human rights record, at a State Department lunch
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| Mar.13 |
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China faces rare earth trade case |
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| Mar.24 |
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Leung wins Hong Kong's election |
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| Apr.6 |
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Arrests over kidney sold for iPad |
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| Apr.10 |
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China politician's wife in 'murder' case |
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| Apr.27 |
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China dissident 'in US embassy' Chen Guangcheng is in the US embassy in Beijing following his dramatic escape from house arrest, fellow activist Hu Jia has told the BBC
| Chen - who is blind - had scaled a high wall and was driven hundreds of kilometres to Beijing
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| May.1 |
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Escape overshadows US-China talks |
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| May.2 |
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Chinese activist wants to go to U.S.
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| May.12 |
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'No China war footing' over shoal |
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| May.15 |
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Chen tells U.S. lawmakers of reprisals |
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| May.19 |
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Rights activist Chen arrives in U.S. Chen Guangcheng is bringing an end to a diplomatic firestorm that erupted after he escaped from house arrest and complains in YouTube about ...
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| May.25 |
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China hits back on U.S. human rights |
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| May.27 |
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Two men 'self-immolate in Lhasa'
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| Jun.4 |
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China arrests Tiananmen activists
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| Jun.7 |
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China cuts rates as growth slows
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| Jun.16 |
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China sends first female astronaut to space 
China made history Saturday when it launched Shenzhou-9 sending Liu Yang, the nation's first female astronaut in space
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| Jun.30 |
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Hong Kong marks 15 years since handover
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| Jul.1 |
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Apple 'settles China iPad case'
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| Jul.5 |
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China 'smashes' trafficking gangs
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| Jul.18 |
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China pledges credit for Africa
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| Jul.23 |
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Heaviest rain in 60 years kills dozens |
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Strong typhoon lashes Hong Kong Typhoon Vicente is leaving scores injured, hundreds of trees felled and many flights cancelled or delayed
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| Jul.26 |
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Wife of controversial Bo Xilai charged with murder
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| Jul.27 |
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China doubles Beijing flood death toll |
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| Jul.28 |
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China's Yi Siling wins London Games' first gold
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| Jul.30 |
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China swimming star denies doping
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Australia in record drugs seizure |
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| Aug.1 |
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Chen seeks US pressure on China
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| Aug.3 |
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Back-to-back typhoons hit China
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| Aug.5 |
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Zambians kill China mine manager |
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| Aug.6 |
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Standard Chartered shares tumble Shares of Standard Chartered bank have tumbled despite the bank denying allegations that it illegally 'schemed' with Iran to launder money
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| Aug.8 |
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China inflation at a 30-month low |
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Gu Kailai's murder trial begins The wife of former high-flying Chinese politician Bo Xilai has gone on trial charged with murdering British businessman Neil Heywood
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| Aug.9 |
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Scandalous China murder trial ends
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Police on trial for Gu 'cover-up'
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| Aug.10 |
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9 on trial over teen's sale of kidney for iPad and iPhone |
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Gu Kailai admits to poisoning businessman
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| Aug.13 |
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China hosts aide to Syria's Assad
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| Aug.14 |
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China's 'most wanted' killed by police |
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| Aug.16 |
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Date set for Gu Kailai verdict |
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Japan to deport island activists |
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| Aug.18 |
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Defiant Japanese head for islands |
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Japanese land on disputed island Map of Senkaku islands Japan Boats carrying dozens of Japanese nationalists activists have moored off a group of disputed islands, amid a bitter sovereignty row with China
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| Aug.19 |
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Anti-Japan protests across China |
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Bo Xilai's wife convicted of murder A court suspended the death sentence of Gu Kailai, the wife of a disgraced party leader, after finding her guilty of murder in the death of a British businessman
| The sentence is likely be commuted to life imprisonment, if she doesn't commit any crimes during the two-year reprieve
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| Aug.20 |
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Disgraced China politician's wife jailed
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| Aug.22 |
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Chemical weapons 'excuse for US'
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| Aug.25 |
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China 'gangsters' deported from Angola |
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China bus crash leaves 36 dead |
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| Aug.28 |
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Japan and North Korea renew talks |
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| Aug.29 |
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Death toll rises in China coal mine blast
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| Aug.30 |
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China activist Wang Xiaoning free |
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| Sep.2 |
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China manufacturing dips further |
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| Sep.4 |
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Clinton meets Hu amid sea tension |
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| Sep.7 |
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At least 64 dead as 4 quakes hit southwestern China |
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China's quake death toll rises At least 80 people are now known to have died in a series of earthquakes in south-western China, as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas
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| Sep.8 |
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HK backs down on patriot classes The Hong Kong government has backed down over plans to make schoolchildren take Chinese patriotism classes, after weeks of protests
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Hong Kong to vote amid rising anti-China feeling |
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| Sep.9 |
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China trade data raises fear of economic slowdown |
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| Sep.10 |
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Absent Chinese VP prompts rumours |
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HK pan-democrats keep veto power |
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| Sep.13 |
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Chinese ships patrol disputed islands Map of Senkaku Japan| Six Chinese maritime surveillance ships entered waters around a group of islands at the center of a heated territorial dispute between Tokyo and Beijing | |
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| Sep.14 |
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Vice-President Xi Jinping in public appearance |
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| Sep.15 |
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Japan urges China to stop attacks |
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| Sep.16 |
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China protests hit Japanese trade Japanese electronics maker Panasonic has suspended some of its operations in China after anti-Japan protesters attacked two of its factories
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| Sep.17 |
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US in new trade spat with China |
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Bo Xilai scandal: Wang Lijun trial 'starts' |
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Bo scandal: Wang trial resumes |
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| Sep.18 |
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China's Xi Jinping meets Panetta |
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| Sep.23 |
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Foxconn shuts plant after brawl Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology, a major supplier for Apple, has shut a plant in northern China, after a fight broke out among workers injuring...
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Bo scandal policeman Wang jailed The ex-police chief at the heart of China's biggest political scandal in years has been sentenced to 15 years in jail
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| Sep.25 |
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China's first carrier goes into service |
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'Severe' mood at Japan-China talks |
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| Sep.27 |
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Doubts raised over Heywood death |
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China hits out over islands at UN |
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| Sep.28 |
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China Communist Party ousts Bo Xilau The politician, who fell from grace amid a scandal, has been expelled from the Communist Party and relieved of his duties, is to face criminal charges
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China discipline warning over Bo
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| Oct.1 |
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German tourists among 6 killed in bus crash |
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Hong Kong boat collision kills 36 One of the boats was carrying more than 120 people to a fireworks display when it half-sank following Monday night's collision near Lamma Island
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| Oct.2 |
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China firm sues Obama over farms |
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| Oct.3 |
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Hong Kong mourns collision dead |
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| Oct.4 |
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Landslide in China buries 18 students |
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| Oct.5 |
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iPhone 5 workers strike in China |
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Bodies found after landslide buries Chinese school |
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| Oct.7 |
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World Bank lowers China forecast |
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US security warning on China firms |
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| Oct.8 |
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Flu strain, not SARS, behind health scare |
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| Oct.10 |
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Forced evictions rising in China
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Lenovo 'ousts HP as top PC maker' |
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| Oct.11 |
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Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel The Swedish Academy praised his work which 'with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary'
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| Oct.14 |
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Cambodia's ex-King Sihanouk dies Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk - a revered figure in his country - has died of a heart attack aged 89
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| Oct.17 |
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China growth pace slows to 7.4% |
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| Oct.18 |
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China telecoms firm 'not spying on US' |
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China to conduct naval exercises |
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| Oct.22 |
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Leftists oppose Bo Xilai removal |
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| Oct.25 |
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China parliament expels Bo Xilai
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New York Times blocked over Wen Jiabao The New York Times' website is being blocked inside China after it published an investigation into wealth accumulated by relatives of Chinese...
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| Oct.28 |
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China halts project amid protests |
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| Nov.5 |
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China hack 'targeted' Coca-Cola |
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| Nov.7 |
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Hu Jintao opens Chinese congress Chinese President Hu Jintao has opened a Communist Party congress that begins a once-in-a-decade power transfer with a stark warning on corruption
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| Nov.8 |
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4 Tibetans set themselves on fire |
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| Nov.13 |
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China's party congress wraps up
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| Nov.14 |
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Xi heads new Chinese leadership | Xi Jinping has been confirmed as the man chosen to lead China for the next decade as his elevation to the top of China's ruling Communist Party. He led the new Politburo Standing Committee out onto the stage at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi replaces Hu Jintao. He ... | |
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| Nov.21 |
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'Fat Duck' chefs die in Hong Kong crash |
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| Nov.24 |
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China lands J-15 jet on Liaoning aircraft carrier
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| Nov.30 |
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Death over China 'sex slave' case |
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| Dec.2 |
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China challenged by HIV/AIDS epidemic |
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| Dec.8 |
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Anti-China protests in Vietnam |
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| Dec.13 |
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Japan scrambles fighter jets over disputed islands |
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| Dec.14 |
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Knife attack at school wounds 22 children |
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| Dec.16 |
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Election: LDP's Shinzo Abe vows tough China line
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| Dec.18 |
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World Bank raises China forecast |
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| Dec.21 |
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'Banquet ban' for China military |
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| Dec.24 |
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China school bus crash kills 11 children |
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| Dec.25 |
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China opens longest bullet route Map of Guangzhou China| China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou | |
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| Dec.28 |
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China tightens rules on internet
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| 2012 |
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| May.12 |
'No China war footing' over shoal |
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| Aug.28 |
Japan and North Korea renew talks |
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| Sep.13 |
Chinese ships patrol disputed islands Map of Senkaku Japan| Six Chinese maritime surveillance ships entered waters around a group of islands at the center of a heated territorial dispute between Tokyo and Beijing | |
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| Sep.18 |
China's Xi Jinping meets Panetta |
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| Sep.25 |
China's first carrier goes into service |
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| Oct.18 |
China to conduct naval exercises |
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| Nov.24 |
China lands J-15 jet on Liaoning aircraft carrier
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| Dec.13 |
Japan scrambles fighter jets over disputed islands |
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| Dec.21 |
'Banquet ban' for China military |
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| 2012 |
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| Jul.23 |
Heaviest rain in 60 years kills dozens |
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| Jul.23 |
Strong typhoon lashes Hong Kong Typhoon Vicente is leaving scores injured, hundreds of trees felled and many flights cancelled or delayed
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| Jul.27 |
China doubles Beijing flood death toll |
|
| Aug.3 |
Back-to-back typhoons hit China
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| Aug.25 |
China bus crash leaves 36 dead |
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| Aug.29 |
Death toll rises in China coal mine blast
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| Sep.7 |
At least 64 dead as 4 quakes hit southwestern China |
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| Sep.7 |
China's quake death toll rises At least 80 people are now known to have died in a series of earthquakes in south-western China, as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas
|
| Oct.1 |
German tourists among 6 killed in bus crash |
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| Oct.1 |
Hong Kong boat collision kills 36 One of the boats was carrying more than 120 people to a fireworks display when it half-sank following Monday night's collision near Lamma Island
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| Oct.3 |
Hong Kong mourns collision dead |
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| Oct.4 |
Landslide in China buries 18 students |
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| Oct.5 |
Bodies found after landslide buries Chinese school |
|
| Oct.8 |
Flu strain, not SARS, behind health scare |
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| Nov.21 |
'Fat Duck' chefs die in Hong Kong crash |
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| Dec.2 |
China challenged by HIV/AIDS epidemic |
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| Dec.24 |
China school bus crash kills 11 children |
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| 2012 |
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| Jul.28 |
China's Yi Siling wins London Games' first gold
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| Jul.30 |
China swimming star denies doping
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| 2012 |
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| Jan.13 |
Scuffles halt China iPhone sales |
|
| Jan.16 |
Chinese economy slows at year end |
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| Mar.13 |
China faces rare earth trade case |
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| Jun.7 |
China cuts rates as growth slows
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| Jul.1 |
Apple 'settles China iPad case'
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| Jul.18 |
China pledges credit for Africa
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| Aug.5 |
Zambians kill China mine manager |
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| Aug.6 |
Standard Chartered shares tumble Shares of Standard Chartered bank have tumbled despite the bank denying allegations that it illegally 'schemed' with Iran to launder money
|
| Aug.8 |
China inflation at a 30-month low |
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| Aug.10 |
9 on trial over teen's sale of kidney for iPad and iPhone |
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| Sep.2 |
China manufacturing dips further |
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| Sep.9 |
China trade data raises fear of economic slowdown |
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| Sep.16 |
China protests hit Japanese trade Japanese electronics maker Panasonic has suspended some of its operations in China after anti-Japan protesters attacked two of its factories
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| Sep.17 |
US in new trade spat with China |
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| Sep.23 |
Foxconn shuts plant after brawl Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology, a major supplier for Apple, has shut a plant in northern China, after a fight broke out among workers injuring...
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| Oct.2 |
China firm sues Obama over farms |
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| Oct.5 |
iPhone 5 workers strike in China |
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| Oct.7 |
World Bank lowers China forecast |
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| Oct.7 |
US security warning on China firms |
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| Oct.10 |
Forced evictions rising in China
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| Oct.10 |
Lenovo 'ousts HP as top PC maker' |
|
| Oct.11 |
Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel The Swedish Academy praised his work which 'with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary'
|
| Oct.17 |
China growth pace slows to 7.4% |
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| Oct.18 |
China telecoms firm 'not spying on US' |
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| Oct.28 |
China halts project amid protests |
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| Dec.18 |
World Bank raises China forecast |
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| Dec.25 |
China opens longest bullet route Map of Guangzhou China| China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou | |
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| Dec.28 |
China tightens rules on internet
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| 2012 |
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| Apr.6 |
Arrests over kidney sold for iPad |
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| Apr.10 |
China politician's wife in 'murder' case |
|
| Jun.4 |
China arrests Tiananmen activists
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| Jul.5 |
China 'smashes' trafficking gangs
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| Jul.26 |
Wife of controversial Bo Xilai charged with murder
|
| Jul.30 |
Australia in record drugs seizure |
|
| Aug.5 |
Zambians kill China mine manager |
|
| Aug.8 |
Gu Kailai's murder trial begins The wife of former high-flying Chinese politician Bo Xilai has gone on trial charged with murdering British businessman Neil Heywood
|
| Aug.9 |
Scandalous China murder trial ends
|
| Aug.9 |
Police on trial for Gu 'cover-up'
|
| Aug.10 |
9 on trial over teen's sale of kidney for iPad and iPhone |
|
| Aug.10 |
Gu Kailai admits to poisoning businessman
|
| Aug.14 |
China's 'most wanted' killed by police |
|
| Aug.16 |
Date set for Gu Kailai verdict |
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| Aug.19 |
Bo Xilai's wife convicted of murder A court suspended the death sentence of Gu Kailai, the wife of a disgraced party leader, after finding her guilty of murder in the death of a British businessman
| The sentence is likely be commuted to life imprisonment, if she doesn't commit any crimes during the two-year reprieve
|
| |
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| Aug.20 |
Disgraced China politician's wife jailed
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| Aug.25 |
China 'gangsters' deported from Angola |
|
| Aug.30 |
China activist Wang Xiaoning free |
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| Sep.17 |
Bo Xilai scandal: Wang Lijun trial 'starts' |
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| Sep.17 |
Bo scandal: Wang trial resumes |
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| Sep.23 |
Foxconn shuts plant after brawl Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology, a major supplier for Apple, has shut a plant in northern China, after a fight broke out among workers injuring...
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| Sep.23 |
Bo scandal policeman Wang jailed The ex-police chief at the heart of China's biggest political scandal in years has been sentenced to 15 years in jail
|
| Sep.27 |
Doubts raised over Heywood death |
|
| Oct.18 |
China telecoms firm 'not spying on US' |
|
| Nov.5 |
China hack 'targeted' Coca-Cola |
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| Nov.30 |
Death over China 'sex slave' case |
|
| Dec.14 |
Knife attack at school wounds 22 children |
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|
| 2012 |
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| Feb.5 |
Beijing defends Syria veto at UN |
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| Feb.13 |
China vice-president in US visit |
|
| Feb.14 |
China's Xi defends rights record China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, has defended his country's human rights record, at a State Department lunch
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| Mar.24 |
Leung wins Hong Kong's election |
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| Apr.10 |
China politician's wife in 'murder' case |
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| Apr.27 |
China dissident 'in US embassy' Chen Guangcheng is in the US embassy in Beijing following his dramatic escape from house arrest, fellow activist Hu Jia has told the BBC
| Chen - who is blind - had scaled a high wall and was driven hundreds of kilometres to Beijing
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| |
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| May.1 |
Escape overshadows US-China talks |
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| May.2 |
Chinese activist wants to go to U.S.
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| May.15 |
Chen tells U.S. lawmakers of reprisals |
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| May.19 |
Rights activist Chen arrives in U.S. Chen Guangcheng is bringing an end to a diplomatic firestorm that erupted after he escaped from house arrest and complains in YouTube about ...
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| May.25 |
China hits back on U.S. human rights |
|
| May.27 |
Two men 'self-immolate in Lhasa'
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| Jun.4 |
China arrests Tiananmen activists
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| Jun.7 |
China cuts rates as growth slows
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| Jun.16 |
China sends first female astronaut to space China made history Saturday when it launched Shenzhou-9 sending Liu Yang, the nation's first female astronaut in space
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| Jun.30 |
Hong Kong marks 15 years since handover
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| Jul.18 |
China pledges credit for Africa
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| Jul.26 |
Wife of controversial Bo Xilai charged with murder
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| Aug.1 |
Chen seeks US pressure on China
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| Aug.13 |
China hosts aide to Syria's Assad
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| Aug.16 |
Japan to deport island activists |
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| Aug.18 |
Defiant Japanese head for islands |
|
| Aug.18 |
Japanese land on disputed island Map of Senkaku islands Japan Boats carrying dozens of Japanese nationalists activists have moored off a group of disputed islands, amid a bitter sovereignty row with China
|
| Aug.19 |
Anti-Japan protests across China |
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| Aug.22 |
Chemical weapons 'excuse for US'
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| Aug.28 |
Japan and North Korea renew talks |
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| Aug.30 |
China activist Wang Xiaoning free |
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| Sep.4 |
Clinton meets Hu amid sea tension |
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| Sep.8 |
HK backs down on patriot classes The Hong Kong government has backed down over plans to make schoolchildren take Chinese patriotism classes, after weeks of protests
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| Sep.8 |
Hong Kong to vote amid rising anti-China feeling |
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| Sep.10 |
Absent Chinese VP prompts rumours |
|
| Sep.10 |
HK pan-democrats keep veto power |
|
| Sep.14 |
Vice-President Xi Jinping in public appearance |
|
| Sep.15 |
Japan urges China to stop attacks |
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| Sep.16 |
China protests hit Japanese trade Japanese electronics maker Panasonic has suspended some of its operations in China after anti-Japan protesters attacked two of its factories
|
| Sep.17 |
US in new trade spat with China |
|
| Sep.17 |
Bo Xilai scandal: Wang Lijun trial 'starts' |
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| Sep.18 |
China's Xi Jinping meets Panetta |
|
| Sep.23 |
Bo scandal policeman Wang jailed The ex-police chief at the heart of China's biggest political scandal in years has been sentenced to 15 years in jail
|
| Sep.25 |
'Severe' mood at Japan-China talks |
|
| Sep.27 |
China hits out over islands at UN |
|
| Sep.28 |
China Communist Party ousts Bo Xilau The politician, who fell from grace amid a scandal, has been expelled from the Communist Party and relieved of his duties, is to face criminal charges
|
| Sep.28 |
China discipline warning over Bo
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| Oct.2 |
China firm sues Obama over farms |
|
| Oct.3 |
Hong Kong mourns collision dead |
|
| Oct.7 |
US security warning on China firms |
|
| Oct.10 |
Forced evictions rising in China
|
| Oct.14 |
Cambodia's ex-King Sihanouk dies Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk - a revered figure in his country - has died of a heart attack aged 89
|
| Oct.22 |
Leftists oppose Bo Xilai removal |
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| Oct.25 |
China parliament expels Bo Xilai
|
| Oct.25 |
New York Times blocked over Wen Jiabao The New York Times' website is being blocked inside China after it published an investigation into wealth accumulated by relatives of Chinese...
|
| Oct.28 |
China halts project amid protests |
|
| Nov.7 |
Hu Jintao opens Chinese congress Chinese President Hu Jintao has opened a Communist Party congress that begins a once-in-a-decade power transfer with a stark warning on corruption
|
| Nov.8 |
4 Tibetans set themselves on fire |
|
| Nov.13 |
China's party congress wraps up
|
| Nov.14 |
Xi heads new Chinese leadership | Xi Jinping has been confirmed as the man chosen to lead China for the next decade as his elevation to the top of China's ruling Communist Party. He led the new Politburo Standing Committee out onto the stage at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi replaces Hu Jintao. He ... | |
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| Dec.8 |
Anti-China protests in Vietnam |
|
| Dec.16 |
Election: LDP's Shinzo Abe vows tough China line
|
| Dec.21 |
'Banquet ban' for China military |
|
| Dec.28 |
China tightens rules on internet
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