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Couple in China Harassed After Forced Abortion

Banner calls family 'traitors'; husband in hiding

(Newser) - The Chinese couple forced into a late-term abortion that prompted international anger over China's one-child policy have been facing relentless harassment for being "traitors"—abuse that has driven the husband into hiding, a family member tells the BBC . The 23-year-old wife, Feng Jianmei, is still in the...

Devoted Sports Fan Dies From Exhaustion

Jiang Xiaoshan stayed up for 11 nights, working the next day

(Newser) - A Chinese soccer fan has paid the ultimate price for supporting his favorite teams, the Telegraph reports. Jiang Xiaoshan, a fan of France and England, died this week from exhaustion after staying up for 11 sleepless nights to watch every Euro 2012 match-up. With the time difference, he watched games...

Bo Xilai's Wife Admits Murder: Newspaper

Gu Kailai reportedly confesses to killing Brit Neil Heywood

(Newser) - Two twists in the China scandal involving ousted political leader Bo Xilai and wife Gu Kailai:
  • Confession? A Japanese newspaper reports that Gu has confessed to killing British businessman Neil Heywood , apparently because she was worried he knew too much about her illegal financial dealings. The report quotes anonymous Chinese
...

Brutal Everest Fight May Inflame China and Tibet

Chinese hiker beaten 'down the ropes' by Tibetans

(Newser) - A brutal encounter between hikers on Mount Everest could threaten the uneasy relations between China and Tibet, Outside Online reports. Last month, Tibetan graduates of a mountaineering school, working as rope fixers for expeditions, noticed a Chinese man by himself on Tibert's North Col route and concluded he had...

Photograph Could Lead to Porn Charge for Ai Weiwei

China restricts artist's travel despite lifting bail terms

(Newser) - Ai Weiwei is free—sort of—but his problems could just be beginning. China lifted the strident conditions of the artist's bail today, allowing him to leave his home without alerting police for the first time in a year. But police also told him that he is suspected of...

Ai Weiwei Reports Police Siege
 Ai Weiwei Reports Police Siege 
Jun 20, 2012 6:39 AM CDT

Ai Weiwei Reports Police Siege

Cops harass him at home, rough up cameraman

(Newser) - Ai Weiwei says police have prevented him from leaving his studio for a scheduled court appearance today, roughing up one of his employees in the process. "The police started calling me repeatedly yesterday afternoon, warning me to stay away from the court today, which I find pretty confusing,"...

Chinese Siri Draws Blank on Tiananmen

Even if it's not censoring searches, it's not very good

(Newser) - Siri is learning Chinese, but it looks like there are some things she's specifically not learning. Ask Chinese Siri about the Tiananmen Square incident, and she'll respond with answers like "I couldn't find any appointments related to 'Do you know about Tiananmen,'" or...

China Now 3rd Country to Complete Space Feat

Crew to spend 6 days on space lab after successful docking

(Newser) - China has officially joined the US and Russia as just the third country in the world to have completed a manned space docking, reports CNN . Earlier today the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft docked with the orbiting Tiangong-1, the next step in the Middle Kingdom's ambitious five-year plan for space exploration. The...

China's First Female Astronaut Blasts Off

Liu Yang is part of first manned docking at space lab

(Newser) - China's space program hit two milestones today, one of the cultural variety. On the latter, its first female astronaut blasted into space, reports the BBC . Liu Yang, 33, is one of three astronauts who lifted off aboard the Shenzhou-9 capsule to spend a week in orbit at China's...

Captured US Spy Exposed China's Agents

Hu Jintao personally intervened to demand an investigation

(Newser) - The US spy China captured earlier this year managed to send the CIA information on many of China's spies in the US before being caught, sources tell Reuters , providing the first confirmation that the spy managed to significantly undermine Chinese intelligence operations. Indeed, President Hu Jintao was outraged by...

Brutal Details of Forced China Abortion Emerge

As government apologizes to Feng Jianmei, suspends 3 officials

(Newser) - China has suspended a trio of officials linked to a forced late-term abortion case that has made waves internationally. The Ankang city government has apologized to Feng Jianmei, who tells NBC News her story: Seven people wrestled her out of her home and into the hospital, she says, where they...

China: We Did Force Woman to Get 7th-Month Abortion

Bloody photo evidence sparks outrage in country

(Newser) - It's the kind of story you fervently hope is an Internet hoax: a picture of a bloody fetus next to a woman in a hospital bed makes the rounds online, supposedly offering proof that China forced her to have an abortion in her seventh month of pregnancy. But as...

Japan: China Sent N. Korea Missile Launchers

Media reports claim 4 shipped from Shanghai last summer

(Newser) - Japan says it has evidence that a Chinese company exported to North Korea vehicles capable of transporting and launching missiles, in possible violation of UN sanctions, Japanese media reported today. China called the reports "inaccurate," and denied violating any UN restriction. Four of the vehicles were shipped from...

China Readies for 1st Manned Space Docking

Milestone comes 6 months after China announced 5-year space plan

(Newser) - Yet another advance is in the works for China's space program. China will try for its first manned space docking later in June, its space agency announced today, according to the New York Times . The Shenzhou 9 will dock with the Tiangong 1 space lab "sometime in June,...

China Closes Tibet to Foreigners

Move follows self-immolations in Lhasa

(Newser) - Tibet is once again a forbidden zone for foreign tourists. Travel agents say Chinese authorities have told them that foreign tourists are no longer being allowed into the region, and it's not clear how long the ban will last, reports MSNBC . The ban comes at the start of Saga...

Chen's Brother: Government Beat Me With My Own Belt

His mother says she's getting harassed, too

(Newser) - Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says his family is facing intimidation and reprisals in the wake of his escape, and a Sky News crew managed to elude authorities long enough to get interviews with his brother and mother to back up the claims. A snippet from an interview with brother Chen...

UN Monitors Shot At Trying to Probe Syria Massacre

Clinton, Cameron condemn killings

(Newser) - UN monitors came under small arms fire today while trying to reach the site of Syria's latest alleged massacre, Ban Ki-moon told the UN General Assembly today. Ban said he'd heard the news only "a few minutes ago," according to CNN, and denounced Bashar al-Assad as...

India to Let US Search Himalayas for WWII Remains

Sensitivities with China may have blocked past recovery efforts

(Newser) - The remains of hundreds of American servicemen and the wreckage of their planes have been scattered across the most remote reaches of the Himalayas since World War II. Yesterday, however, India agreed to let teams from the US Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command search for and recover those remains. The Washington ...

1K Workers Riot at Foxconn
 1K Workers Riot at Foxconn 
Jun 6, 2012 8:40 AM CDT

1K Workers Riot at Foxconn

Conditions still terrible, despite Apple's initiative

(Newser) - Dozens were arrested Monday night after a riot broke out at a dormitory in Foxconn's factory in Chengdu. The trouble started when security guards were called to stop a thief, an opening other workers used to start a scuffle, the Taiwan-based Want China Times reports. Before long, up to...

Now Russian, Chinese Militaries Get Cozier

In visit to Beijing, Putin announces future exercises

(Newser) - Just days after the US announced plans for a boosted Asia-Pacific fleet , Vladimir Putin says his country will beef up its military relationship with China. Putin pointed to six days of drills near China's east coast in April: "They were the first of such exercises," the Russian...

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