People around the world mark Six Four, two decades after Chinese forces unleashed military fury on peaceful demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
In 1989, Chinese authorities violently clamped down on pro-democracy demonstrators that had filled Tiananmen Square. Today, the square is still a vital center of Beijing, but references to the deadly events of June 1989 are kept tightly under wraps by the Chinese government and draw swift retaliatory action.
The chief executive of the now-defunct Sanlu Group, which was quickly pinpointed when the scandal over tainted milk products in China broke this past fall, has pleaded guilty to "producing and selling fake or substandard products," according to Xinhua, the official state-run media agency there.
Congratulations to the very deserving Hu Jia, who has been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Tainted toys, pet food, toothpaste... the scandal sheet goes on in China with the melamine-tainted milk powder that's sickened tens of thousands.
A Chinese government that's tried to paint itself as "man of the people" in the wake of the quake is now showing it has little tolerance for parents protesting shoddy schools.
In the wake of China's devastating earthquake, the one-child policy limiting "legal" births has apparently been relaxed for couples whose kids were killed, disabled or severely hurt.
Dmitry Medvedev has hit the road, and his first major diplomatic act as president of the Russian Federation is aimed at angering the United States.
Tens of thousands die when western China is struck by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake on May 12, 2008.
As photos of the devastation show, some key factors are contributing to the high death toll and hampering the recovery efforts.
Felt as far away as Vietnam, Thailand, and Taiwan, the massive temblor struck Sichuan province at 2:28 p.m. on May 12, 2008.
In the wake of China's Tibet crackdown and the ensuing protests, the People's Republic jailed another vocal dissident: Hu Jia, 34, a prominent human-rights activist who has championed the cause of AIDS victims and other dissidents behind bars, was sentenced to three years and six months behind bars on the charge of "inciting subversion of state power."
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