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Fallen Chinese political star to go on trial

August 24, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Gillian Wong The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai goes on trial Aug. 22 on corruption charges in a case crafted to minimize damage to the Communist Party and avoid exposure of party infighting or human rights abuses.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Beijing, Bo Xilai, Central Committee, China, Dali Yang, Fallen Chinese, Fang Hong, Gu Kailai, Intermediate People, Kerry Brown, Lu Qi, Song Yangbiao, Vol 32 No 35 | August 24 - August 30, Wang Lijun, Xinhua News Agency, Zhang Lifan, Zhang Sizhi

China, India gloss over border dispute at meeting

May 18, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Christopher Bodeen The Associated Press BEIJING, China (AP) — The foreign ministers of China and India have glossed over a recent standoff along their countries’ disputed border in an apparent sign that the incident will not harm future high-level contacts.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, Aksai Chin, Although China, Arunachal Pradesh, Beijing, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, New Delhi, Vol 32 No 21 | May 18 - May 24, Xinhua News Agency, Yang Jiechi, commentary

Earthquake hits Sichuan, kills hundreds

April 25, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Gillian Wong The Associated Press LUSHAN, China (AP) — Luo Shiqiang sat near chunks of concrete, bricks, and a ripped orange sofa, and told how his grandfather was just returning from feeding chickens when their house collapsed and crushed him to death in this weekend’s powerful earthquake in southwestern China.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2013, ATM, China, Fu Qiuyue, Geological Survey, LUSHAN, Ren Dehua, Vol 32 No 18 | April 27 - May 3, Xinhua News Agency, Zhou Lin

Chinese smog forces cancelled flights

February 2, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Louise Watt The Associated Press BEIJING, China (AP) — Thick, off-the-scale smog shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks on Tuesday, Jan. 29 forcing airlines to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting Beijing to temporarily shut factories and curtail fleets of government cars.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Beijing, China, Chinese New Year, Christopher Bodeen, Clean Air Act, Cui Qifeng, Emergency Department, Flora Ji, Jiangong Hospital, Liu Peng, Lunar New Year, Pan Shiyi, Ren Haiqiang, Vol 32 No 6 | February 2 - February 8, Wang Anshun, World Health Organization, Xinhua News Agency

PICTORIAL: Obama visits South East Asia

November 21, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Photos by the White House and Xinhua News Agency

Filed Under: Features, National News, World News Tagged With: 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, President Obama, South East Asia, Thailand, Vol 31 No 48 | November 24 - November 30, White House, Xinhua News Agency

Foxconn denies worker unrest slows iPhone assembly

October 13, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Didi Tang The Associated Press Beijing, China (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group denied on Saturday, Oct. 6 that production was affected at a Chinese factory that makes Apple’s iPhones, although both state media and an overseas labor watch group said some workers halted production lines on Friday, Oct. 5 apparently over higher quality control […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Beijing, Chinese, Monday Oct, National Golden Week, New York-based China Labor Watch, Vol 31 No 42 | October 13 - October 19, Xinhua News Agency, Xinzheng Comprehensive Bonded Area

Chinese city kills project after pollution protest

August 3, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eugene Hoshiko The Associated Press QIDONG, China (AP) — Authorities in eastern China dropped plans for a waste water discharge project Saturday after thousands of protesters angry about pollution took to the streets. It was the latest of many such confrontations in a country where three decades of rapid economic expansion have come at […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, China, Chinese, Later Saturday, Oji Paper Group, QIDONG, Vol 31 No 32 | August 4 - August 10, Xinhua News Agency

China’s U.S. assets ‘safe,’ Biden tells students

August 25, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Vice President Joe Biden wrapped up a visit to China last Sunday that offered him extensive face-time with the country’s expected future leader, Xi Jinping, and delivered a strong message of U.S. mutual interdependence with the world’s second-largest economy …

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, Beijing, CHENGDU, China, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Iran, North Korea, President Barack Obama, Sichuan University, Taiwan, United States, Vice President Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, Xinhua News Agency, commentary

China drops death penalty for some economic crimes

March 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — China dropped the death penalty for more than a dozen nonviolent crimes Friday and banned capital punishment for offenders over the age of 75

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Beijing, China, Chinese, Criminal Law, Dui Hua Foundation, Joshua Rosenzweig, Lang Sheng, National People, Standing Committee, Vol 30 No 10 | March 5 - March 11, Xinhua News Agency

China executes man who attacked 29 children

June 3, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities on Sunday executed a man convicted of slashing 29 children and three teachers with a knife in one of a series of recent assaults on schools and kindergartens, a state news agency reported.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Associated Press, Chen Bingkang, China, Chinese, Henry Hou, Taizhou Intermediate Court, Vol 29 No 23 | June 5 - June 11, Xin Feng, Xinhua News Agency, Xu Yuyuan, Zheng Minsheng, attention

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