China urges judiciary to handle unrest better
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China's security chief has warned judicial departments to stand firm in face of what he described as "hostile forces" of reform, but also urged the judiciary to improve its handling of social unrest.
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Martial law has been imposed on a town in central China after rioting between hundreds of members of the Han ethnic majority and Hui Muslims killed at least seven people, local residents said Monday.
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The country's Communist leadership convened a series of emergency meetings to manage the consequences of the death of Zhao Ziyang and confront the legacy of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
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Violent clashes in a village in central China killed seven people and injured 42, the government said Monday, as police imposed martial law on the area after the fighting
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Nepal's Maoist leader warned of mass protests in the streets of the capital Kathmandu if rebel demands for the election of a body to rewrite the country's constitution were not met.
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Pakistan&#39;s government has prepared a  new misconduct complaint against the suspended chief judge, the  law minister said on Sunday, raising the stakes in a  three-month-old dispute that has sparked street protests.
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Riots in the central Chinese province of Henan resulted in seven deaths and 42 injuries and were quelled after authorities imposed martial law, the New China News Agency said
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China sent 95 riot police to join United Nations&#39; peacekeepers in Haiti to help increase security in the Caribbean island nation, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said.
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HONGTONG, China  - China has promised a sweeping crackdown on a slave labor scandal in a poor part of the country where poverty and unbridled growth have made work abuses commonplace.
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China introduces a new bankruptcy law that gives creditors precedence over workers at failed companies.
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China&#39;s lawyers association has urged  making slavery a specific crime, an official newspaper reported  on Tuesday in the wake of a trial of brick-kiln operators  accused of brutally exploiting trapped workers.
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Pakistan's government has prepared a new misconduct complaint against the suspended chief judge, the law minister said on Sunday, raising the stakes in a three-month-old dispute that has sparked street protests.
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China will start holding jury trials next year as part of court reforms that also will increase the number of judges, state media reported Monday.
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The Chinese government's claims of support for legal reform and human rights, and an influx of information about Western legal concepts, have fueled public demands for a more independent judiciary.
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China has kept quiet on Taiwan's recent  outbreak of street protests calling for the ouster of  independence-leaning President Chen Shui-bian because it fears  any strong reaction might backfire, analysts say.
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A group of veteran China Communist  Party members has urged the leadership to assure proper funeral  honors for Zhao Ziyang, purged as party chief in 1989 for  sympathising with the Tiananmen Square democracy protests.
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Families of victims of China's 1989  Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protests have urged  the government to allow open debate on the subject at next  week's annual meeting of parliament and "reveal the truth."