National Minorities—China
A 2000 census in China revealed that 106 million people in that country, or about 8.41 percent of the total population, belonged to an ethnic minority. Thus, China is ...
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Prague (dpa) - Minority rights groups sought help Monday from Pope
Benedict XVI as a row over government relocations of hundreds of
Roma, or gypsies, spread far beyond the C...
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While international attention has focused on the protests for democracy in Myanmar's cities, a hidden war has decimated generations of the country's powerless ethnic minorities, who have faced brut...
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China's family planning authorities are to soften the tone of
slogans promoting the government's one-child policy after admitting
some are ''coarsely worded'' or ''offensive,'' the state-run ...
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Nepal's former rebels threatened Sunday to quit an interim coalition government unless their demands were met, which include the creation of a republic and protection against attacks from rival gro...
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A court Tuesday backed Turkey's long-held position that the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarch is only the head of the city's tiny Greek Orthodox community and not the spiritual leader of the world'...
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Yangon (dpa) - United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari met
with government ministers Tuesday on the fourth day of his mission to
Myanmar, but had yet to be granted an a...
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HANOI, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Bird flu killed a four-year-old
boy from an ethnic minority group in northern Vietnam, the
country's first human case in nearly five months, a health
official said on Thu...
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An "accidental meeting" with another hunter led to a Hmong immigrant's death in a wildlife area, a county sheriff said Monday, in an incident that has threatened to re-expose racial tensions in the...
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A former Massachusetts House speaker accused of lying during his testimony in a voting rights lawsuit plans to plead guilty Friday to obstruction of justice, a person familiar with the agreement sa...
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National Minorities—China
Pope asked to help Romas moved from Czech town
