Chinese protesters storm Japanese embassy in Beijing
Anti-Japan protests have broken out across China, with thousands of people mobbing the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Tensions between the two countries have risen over a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea. Thousands of protesters hurled rocks and bottles at the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, as tensions between Asia’s two [...]
At least 36 people have died after a sleeper-bus collided with a methane-laden tanker in northern China, state-run media say. Most of the passengers were asleep at the time of the crash, officials said The two vehicles burst into flames after the accident in the city of Yanan in the middle of the night, Xinhua [...]
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Chinese writer Liao Yiwu has won the 2012 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Liao, a prominent dissident who fled China for Germany in 2011, will collect his award in October at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In awarding Liao, 53, the peace prize, the association cited his fearlessness in the face of oppression. “Through [...]
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Saab will concentrate on production of electric cars Bankrupt carmaker Saab has been sold to a Chinese-Swedish investment group which aims to turn the company into a maker of electric vehicles. Saab’s administrator said the buyer was National Electric Vehicle Sweden (Nevs). No sale price was given. Saab went bankrupt in December, two years [...]
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Sichuan Man Buys Pesticide to Help Euthanize Gravely Ill Mother, Given Suspended Sentence May 16th of last year, Guangzhou City Fanyu District Shiji County local police received a report from Deng Mingjian, who claimed that his mother Li X died a natural death in their rented apartment, but the preliminary autopsy by the police showed [...]
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British sexually assaults Chinese girl Beijing city 100 meters south of the Xuanwumen subway entrance opposite the Sogo Department Store. When: 2012 May 8th around 23:20 [11:20pm]. At the time, Big Brother [referring to self] was getting off work and closing the shop and a Little Brother [referring to a younger man] ran over in [...]
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