Flooding and mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed at least 178 people in western China and wrecked bridges and power stations, officials said Wednesday.
The Dalai Lama may give him a run for his money, but few people are as officially despised by the Chinese government as Chen Shui-bian — president of Taiwan, accused ”splittist” and the figure Beijing considers most worthy of the formidable brunt of state-sponsored derision.
US Internet giant Yahoo! is ”complicit” in rights abuses by the Chinese government after agreeing to a Beijing-backed self-censorship pledge for web pages, a human rights group has charged.
Tibetans should be allowed more say in the development of their homeland and the protection of their cultural heritage if Beijing wants increased foreign aid to the region.
A group of 28 factory workers in east China tried to commit mass suicide by jumping off a building in protest against poor retirement benefits, a rights group said on Tuesday.
A two-pronged attack from the east and west shattered all illusions in Beijing on Saturday morning.