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Chinese activist in US says China slowly improving
Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng told an audience in New York on Thursday that he thinks his country is moving toward becoming a more democratic society, but he said it will only reach its potential when his fellow citizens stop tolerating lawlessness among their leaders.Chen was imprisoned for seven years by provincial officials until a dramatic escape from house arrest in his rural village

Few believed still jailed 23 years after Tiananmen

Twenty-three years after China's sweeping crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations, fewer than a dozen people remain in prison, among them elderly and likely mentally ill

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Chinese dissident Chen claims China has no 'rule of law'
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, writing in his column in the New York Times, has said that the absence of the rule of law is a "fundamental question" that the Chinese government has to face.

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Family planning

Li Ka-shing is taking the Chinese approach to succession. After years of leaving investors guessing, Hong Kong’s richest man named his eldest son, Victor, as heir to his business empire. That

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China calls for thorough investigation into Houla massacre
-ANI): China on Wednesday called for a thorough investigation into the mass murder of civilians in the Houla region of west Syria.

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Apple secretly begins test production of 'iTV' in China
Apple has reportedly secretly begun testing its much-awaited 'iTV' in China, and is expected to unveil it before Christmas this year.

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