Greater Xing'an Range
The Greater Xing'an Range (Da Xing'anling) is a crescent-shaped mountain range running 1,400 kilometers from south to north in the northwestern parts of Heil...
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Heilongjiang
(2002 est. pop. 38.3 million). Lying in the northernmost part of Northeast China, Heilongjiang Province has a total area of 453,900 square kilometers, of which 60 percent is made of mount...
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China has arrested an activist who gathered 10,000 signatures on an open letter rejecting the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and demanding more respect for human rights, a watchdog organization said ...
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A Chinese land rights activist imprisoned after circulating a petition opposing the Beijing Olympics has been chained for days in the same position and forced to clean up the waste of other inmates...
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BEIJING, Dec 24 (Reuters) - China has detained at least
three farmers on subversion charges for making bold calls for
private land ownership in the countryside, an attempt to curb
land seizures by...
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BEIJING, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A Chinese human rights activist
was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday for illegal
business activities, in a trial a rights group said was
politically motiv...
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A knife-wielding Chinese tour guide injured 20 people in a stabbing-and-slashing spree at a southwestern resort following an argument over kickbacks on souvenir sales, a news report said Tuesday.Fi...
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A Chinese lawmaker revived calls for the removal of a Starbucks coffee shop from Beijing's famed Forbidden City, saying its presence was a smear on China's historical legacy, the official Xinhua Ne...
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Chinese investigators are still searching for the cause of at least six deaths among patients who received the same brand of antibiotic, a deputy health minister said Thursday, .
Local off...
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China's food and drug watchdog announced it had shut down five drug makers over the last year, including one that made a substance implicated in 11 deaths, state media reported Saturday.The State F...
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The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday ruled against Chinese
plaintiffs who were seeking compensation from the Japanese government
for their sufferings caused by chemical weapons ...
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At least two people were injured and two detained when villagers and police clashed over a land dispute in northeastern China, a witness said Sunday. A newspaper reported one person was killed in t...
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Greater Xing'an Range
China arrests anti-Olympics activist
