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Rise in abortions in China, young women targeted

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XI’AN, China (AP) — The leaf-strewn median on Eternal Peace Road hides a grim secret. Numerous tiny fetuses lie in unmarked graves dug by women

Huang Ruo: composer, musician, and … Celebrate Asia! contest winner?

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What will a young pianist do when experiencing stage fright while performing? Will the projected path in his artistic development change?

China anti-Nobel campaign is winning it no friends

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BEIJING (AP) — China’s campaign to vilify this year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and sabotage the award ceremony showed signs of backfiring

Mongolian activist’s son: China police took mother

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BEIJING, China (AP) — Chinese police detained the wife of the co-founder of a Mongolian separatist movement and raided the family bookstore just days before the

The end of the Shanghai World Expo draws 72 million visitors

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SHANGHAI (AP) — China wrapped up its record-breaking World Expo on Sunday, Oct. 31, with a lavish display of national pride, as organizers of the mammoth event

US official says China’s president will visit in January

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BEIJING, China (AP)—China’s President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States in January, a senior U.S. official said Thursday, Oct. 21st in

Top North Korean defector Hwang Jang-yop dies at 87

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — He was the intellectual force behind the philosophy of self-reliance that guided North Korea and a top official in the Workers’ Party

Furious China blocks visit to Nobel winner’s wife

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BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday blocked European officials from meeting with the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner, cut off her phone communication

Contender for Nobel prize is in Chinese prison

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BEIJING (AP) — When the police came for Liu Xiaobo on a December night nearly two years ago, they didn’t tell the dissident author why he was being taken away.