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China and India Are Sitting Out Rohingya Refugee Crisis

China and India Are Sitting Out Refugee Crisis Austin Ramzy, The New York Times 28 June 2015 Image: Migrants found at sea were escorted across the Bangladesh border to Rakhine State in Myanmar this month. Persecution has driven thousands from Myanmar. CreditYe Aung Thu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images HONG KONG — When a deadly earthquake rocked Nepal in April, China and India rushed to send relief supplies and search-and-rescue teams.

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China frees three detained women’s rights activists

China frees three detained women's rights activists BBC News China 13 April 2015   Chinese police have freed three women's rights activists who were held for more than a month, in a case that sparked an international outcry. A lawyer for Wei Tingting, Wang Man and Zheng Churan said they were not charged but their release was conditional. The women, who were detained shortly before International Women's Day on 8 March, had planned protests against

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Taking Feminist Battle to China’s Streets, and Landing in Jail

Taking Feminist Battle to China's Streets, and Landing in Jail Andrew Jacobs, New York Times 5 April 2015   BEIJING — The young Chinese feminists shaved their heads to protest inequality in higher education and stormed men’s restrooms to highlight the indignities women face in their prolonged waits at public toilets. To publicize domestic violence, two prominent activists, Li Tingting and Wei Tingting, put on white wedding gowns, splashed

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The Price of Damming Tibet’s Rivers

The Price of Damming Tibet's Rivers Michael Buckley, New York Times 30 March 2015 NEW DELHI — CHINA has more than 26,000 large dams, more than the rest of the world combined. They feed its insatiable demand for energy and supply water for mining, manufacturing and agriculture. In 2011, when China was already generating more than a fifth of the total hydropower in the world, the leadership announced that it would aim to double the country’s hydropower

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China Is Urged to Confront Its Own History

China Is Urged to Confront Its Own History Dan Levin, New York Times 30 March 2015 The tour guide outside the bloodstained classrooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the high school in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh transformed into a prison and torture center by the Khmer Rouge, paused to ask whether any tourists in the group were from China. Visibly relieved when no hands were raised, he went on to describe the enabling role that Beijing

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In China, Supporters of Detained Feminists Come Under Pressure

In China, Supporters of Detained Feminists Come Under Pressure Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times 25 March 2015 Like a modern-day Leviathan scenting challenges to its rule, the Chinese state appears to have a new target: young women. On March 6 and 7, public security officials detained five women in three cities who planned to distribute stickers and leaflets on March 8, International Women’s Day, to highlight the problem of sexual predators on

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Myanmar says more than 130 dead in fighting near China border

Myanmar says more than 130 dead in fighting near China border Daily Sabah, Asia Pacific 23 February 2015   Myanmar's army Saturday said more than 130 people had died in a deepening battle with rebels in the northeast, declaring it would not rest until stability was restored to the border area which tens of thousands have fled. Fighting raged in the remote Kokang region of Shan state where conflict erupted on February 9 with insurgent attacks

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China worried as Myanmar fighting pushes refugees across border

China worried as Myanmar fighting pushes refugees across border Reuters 10 February 2015   BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s expressed concern on Tuesday about renewed fighting between Myanmar rebels and government forces which forced civilians to cross the border to seek refuge in China. The fighting flared up in the Kokang region of northeast Myanmar’s Shan State between rebels from a group called the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army

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Anti-China group nabbed for planned Manila attacks

Anti-China group nabbed for planned Manila attacks By Oliver Teves, Associated Press 2 September 2014 Philippine authorities said Tuesday that they arrested three men linked to a group that was planning to set off firebombs at Manila's international airport and a major mall in the city to protest the government's alleged "soft" stance in its territorial dispute with China. The military, however, downplayed the planned attacks, saying the men were

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Tiananmen anniversary: China tightens crackdown

Tiananmen anniversary: China tightens crackdown By BBC  3 June 2014 China has tightened security and widened a clampdown on dissent, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on Wednesday. Lawyers, journalists and activists have been detained. Internet search terms related to the 1989 massacre and the protests have been blocked, and access on Google has reportedly been restricted. The protests were the biggest rally against Communist

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