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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned China that “the world will be watching” the trial of Australian mining executive Stern Hu.
After eight months in detention in Shanghai, the Rio Tinto executive and three of his colleagues will face trial.
Australian diplomats were informed last night that the trial of Hu, Liu Caikui, Ge Mingqiang and Wang [...]

Beijing, Mar. 19 (ANI): Internet search engine Google could cease operations in China by April 10, according to a Chinese newspaper.
The Times quoted an authorised Google spokesperson as saying that the departure date could be announced on Monday – a day after the company’s staff are due to receive their annual year-end bonus.
“I have received [...]

New Delhi, Sep 18 (ANI): Amid media reports of rising tensions between New Delhi and Beijing, Chinese Ambassador to India Zhang Yan met officials of Ministry of External Affairs in South Block on Thursday, sources have said.

The Chinese Ambassador reportedly sought the meeting and no demarche or summon was issued by the Indian Foreign Ministry.

Highly [...]

New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Chinese officials in Urumqi have termed the recent syringe attacks as “terror attacks”.

“They aimed to unsettle the city’s atmosphere,” said Yan Yuxing, former president of Urumqi Municipal Intermediate People’s Court.

The attacks, which targeted innocent people in the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, were not practical jokes or [...]

New Delhi, Sep.7 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Monday sought to play down the alleged incursion by a Chinese helicopter in Ladakh, saying that there is an inbuilt mechanism to deal with it.

Talking to reporters outside his South Block office, Krishna said: [...]

Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir), Sep.7 (ANI): The Indian Army’s Northern commander, Lt. Gen. P. C. Bhardwaj will visit the Leh-based 14 Corps headquarters over the next few days to verify reports of Chinese incursion in the Ladakh area.

Sources say the matter will also be raised at the next border meeting between Indian and Chinese [...]

Beijing, Aug. 24 (ANI): A Chinese citizen who filed an online complaint to a government department was told: “Our office is too busy to fuss with you. Come to the office and face us.”

The shocking reply from the city landscaping office in Yingcheng, Hubei province came albeit a new set of regulations binding government departments [...]

Melbourne, July 13 (ANI): Chinese President Hu Jintao personally directed the Ministry of State Security to undertake the Rio Tinto investigation, which led to the arrest of the iron ore company’s Australian-origin General Manager, Stern Hu, and three others, news.co.au has claimed.

According to the report, the investigation appears to be part of a big shift [...]

Beijing, July 11 (ANI): Eighteen months ago, when unrest had broken out among Tibetans in western China, the Chinese government had banned foreign reporters in the region, but in stark in contrast the administration changed their tactics to tackle the Urumqi unrest.

The Chinese propaganda officials used several Western PR tactics of media management to effectively [...]

Melbourne, July 5 (ANI): Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has maintained that the Australian parliamentary delegation’s decision to meet the Dalai Lama in India was entirely appropriate despite Chinese condemnation.

“This is a reflection of Australia’s democratic strengths. It is entirely appropriate for a parliamentary delegation to visit India and entirely appropriate for a parliamentary delegation [...]

New Delhi, May 17 (ANI): The Regional Tibetan Women Association (RTWA) organised a peaceful protest march here on Sunday for the detention of eleventh Panchen Lama, who they allege has been held captive by China.

The eleventh Panchen Lama, also known as Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, is said to be under detention for the past 13 years.

Holding [...]

BEIJING, April 15 (Reuters) – China’s commerce ministry on Wednesday said its doors are still open to foreign investors looking to make mergers and acqusitions in the country.
The comments by Yao Jian, ministry spokesman, were the latest in a series of statements by Chinese officials seeking to reassure foreign firms after the government rejected [...]

London, Apr 11 (ANI): Tibetan farmers discontented with the Chinese rule have refused to sow their fields in a show of passive resistance against Beijing.

Chinese officials are so anxious at the latest action of farmers that they have sent in troops from the People’s Liberation Army to work with them or in their place if [...]

China executed two minority Uighurs in restive far-west Xinjiang on Thursday after a court convicted them over a deadly attack on police in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.
Abdurahman Azat, 34, and Kurbanjan Hemit, 29, were found guilty of a “terrorist attack on a frontier city’s border police that left 17 dead”, Xinhua news agency [...]

BEIJING (AP) A state news agency says a Chinese court has sentenced two people to death for starting deadly fires in last year’s riots in the Tibetan capital. Xinhua News Agency says the court in Lhasa sentenced two others to death each with a two-year reprieve, and sentenced another to life imprisonment.
The Wednesday report does [...]

London, Mar 27 (ANI): Chinese officials are urgently seeking a nugget of deadly radioactive material encased in a lead ball of the size of a watermelon that was lost this week.

The Caesium-137 may be buried in a scrap yard under tonnes of metal, and local officials believe it could have been melted down, the [...]

Dharamsala, Mar 15 (ANI): The Tibetan government-in-exile on Sunday welcomed China’s willingness for more talks with its envoys, but reiterated the conditions outlined in its last memorandum to Beijing.

“We welcome the PM’s statement and at the same time what his holiness is exactly asking from the People Republic of China (PRC) authorities were in that [...]

London, Mar 11 (ANI): Hollywood actor/ political activist Richard Gere has voiced hope that China could one day have a Tibetan leader – the same way as United States has a black president.

Gere, [...]

Dharamshala, Mar. 10 (ANI): Hundreds of Tibetans, including monks, nuns and officials of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, gathered at the main Tsuglagkhang Buddhist temple in Dharamshala to offer prayers for the long life of their spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday.

This congregation of Tibetans assembled just a day prior to the 50th anniversary of Chinese occupation [...]

New Delhi, Mar.10 (ANI): Tibet’s spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama, has warned that Tibetans are close to extinction, thanks to the oppressive and authoritarian approach of the Chinese.

Speaking ahead of the 50th anniversary of his flight from Lhasa to exile in India, a defiant Dalai Lama praised the sacrifices [...]