China detains farmers urging land privatization
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China has detained at least three farmers on subversion charges for making bold calls for private land ownership in the countryside, an attempt to curb land seizures by corrupt officials, their families said on Monday.
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A blogger who sold stock picks to thousands of subscribers has been detained in northern China, as regulators try to reign in freelance operators amid a booming stock market.
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Chinese authorities detained a prominent, U.S.-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said Wednesday.
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Hundreds of Chinese peasants have protested over family-planning rules in an area hit by similar demonstrations earlier this month, state media said on Thursday, with some setting fire to government vehicles.
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China's leaders are displaying renewed confidence in their ability to control political debate, putting to a vote a toughly contested law on property rights at this year's session of the national legislature.
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SHANGHAI -- While he lived, China's Communist Party considered ousted leader Zhao Ziyang such a potent threat that it kept him under house arrest for 15 years.
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BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- Government officials from a county in northeastern China's Liaoning province were not pleased by a magazine story criticizing their local Communist Party leader. So they traveled nearly 500 miles to Beijing seeking to arrest the author.
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China has detained three prominent intellectuals who criticized the government, sources said yesterday, in what some believe reflects a new crackdown on freedom of expression.
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A Chinese author who was briefly  detained by police overnight along with two other intellectuals  said Tuesday the authorities appeared to be trying to build a  case against him as part of a crackdown on government critics.
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Local Chinese leaders will have a better chance of winning job promotions if they can limit social unrest in rural areas, state media on Sunday quoted a ruling Communist Party official as saying.
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China has detained a trader for his role in the sale of contaminated "red-yolk" duck eggs that have sparked fear across the country, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
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China said on Thursday that Tibetans who were reportedly tortured for trying to escape to Nepal belonged to an illegal migration scheme and faced punishment.
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China will clamp down on foods tainted with illegal and excessive chemicals as it seeks to quell domestic and foreign alarm about toxins in meat, seafood and vegetables, the country's top agriculture official said.
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The case, along with the detention of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, has prompted international concern about ChinaÂs crackdown on press freedom.
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A Chinese human rights activist who worked as a researcher for the New York Times has been detained on charges of leaking state secrets, said his lawyer on Friday.
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BEIJING, March 8 -- China's legislature began examining a much-debated measure Thursday that is intended to help protect private property in an increasingly well-off society.
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Human rights advocates and Chinese dissidents say the arrest of an activist named Hu Jia is the most telling example of what they describe as a broadening crackdown on dissent.