Chinese Riot Police Tear Gas Protesters
BEIJING — Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day...
BEIJING — Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day...
AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 02.20.2012
BEIJING -- Southern Chinese authorities have given in to key demands of protesting villagers after a nearly two-week standoff with police, agreeing in...
AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 02.19.2012
BEIJING -- Thousands of people besieged a government office in a southern Chinese town Tuesday and blocked a highway to demand a halt to a planned coa...
AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 02.13.2012
BEIJING — China's government is trying to defuse a revolt in a small fishing village, offering to investigate the land seizures that touched off...
AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 12.30.2011
BEIJING -- A police officer was suspected of driving a police van drunk and killing five people in a central China crash that sparked angry crowds to ...
newyorker.com | Posted by Evan Osnos | Posted 08.14.2011
When local authorities fanned out this week into villages and factory towns around Guangzhou, they were not hunting criminals or political agitators. ...
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 08.13.2011
BEIJING — Security forces patrolled the streets and manned roadblocks Tuesday in a southern Chinese city where rioting factory workers attacked ...
AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 06.06.2011
SEOUL, South Korea -- Strolling past hip cafes, the young Chinese man in a white sports jacket and faded jeans looks like any other university student...
Tenzin Dorjee | Posted 05.25.2011
In spite of China's image as a high-functioning economy, many of the social causes of mass discontent that exploded in the Arab world -- endemic corruption, income inequality, labor unrest, inflation, pollution -- continue to plague the nation.
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — A father who organized a support group for other parents whose children were sickened in one of China's worst food safety scandals was...
Posted 05.25.2011
Wang Cuyun, a grandmother in Hubei, China, was beaten and buried alive by property developers after trying to protect her home, according to reports. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: ABC News reports that Rebiya Kadeer, the head of the World Uighur Congress who lives in Fairfax, Virginia and was recently blamed by the Chin...
AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011
URUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive...
Ankara | Posted 05.25.2011
MUSLIMS in many nations have condemned China's crackdown in its Xinjiang region where at least 156 people have been killed in unrest over the past wee...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
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The Washington Post | David Montgomery | Posted 05.25.2011
The translators kept bursting into tears. That was a problem for Rebiya Kadeer, the tiny and fiery matriarch of the Uighur diaspora, who lives in Fair...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
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The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
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CFR | Posted 05.25.2011
Introduction The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a territory in western China, accounts for one-sixth of China's land and is home to about...
AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — Thousands of Chinese police are being trained to deal with social unrest amid concerns that millions of rural workers who have been la...
Alexander Davenport | Posted 05.25.2011
Faced with unemployment in expensive, unwelcoming urban environments, many migrants are getting an early start to their annual ritual of heading back to their home provinces for New Year.
AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
DONGGUAN, China — Laid-off migrant worker Chen Li had red scrape marks on his right cheek from a scuffle with riot police outside his factory th...
AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative s...
AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — Chinese authorities have not approved any of the 77 applications they received from people who wanted to hold protests during the Beij...
McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011
Chinese and Tibetan envoys on Tuesday began their first formal talks since bloody protests swept Tibetan areas of western China three months ago, in a...
AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 02.22.2012