Hong Kong ambiguous about China dissidents 10 years on
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For a couple of days around this time every year, thousands of Hong Kong residents demonstrate for more democracy in the territory and in China, and for Beijing to come clean on the Tiananmen massacre of 1989.
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China's parliament will decide next week whether to allow greater democracy in Hong Kong, but no one in the liberal camp is expecting a surprise Christmas present from the Communist rulers in Beijing.
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HONG KONG: China has invited some &quot;moderate&quot; pro-democracy legislators from Hong Kong to attend National Day celebrations in Beijing, a move seen by the territory&#39;s democrats as an attempt to sow divisions in their midst, lawmakers said.
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Rights groups claim the release of a prominent dissident only indicates that Hanoi is finding subtler means of stifling its critics
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Chinese officials announced that Hong Kong would have to wait at least another decade for democratic elections to select its leader.
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The people of Hong Kong voted Sunday in a legislative election that could give pro-democracy figures more clout than they have held since China reclaimed the territory from Britain in July 1997.
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HONG KONG, China -- Hong Kong residents are voting in legislative elections seen as a referendum on Chinese rule and the most extensive democracy exercise in the country.
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China is failing to live up to assurances that it will guarantee press freedom for the 2008 Beijing Games, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday, calling 2007 a "year of disillusionment".
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Returned to Chinese control in 1997, few expected that the city of Hong Kong - whose citizens never tire of pointing out how they are pragmatic business people first, idealists
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WASHINGTON - Chinaâs embassy in Washington sowed confusion on Monday about an election-eve attack on President George W. Bushâs policies that raised questions about whether Beijing was trying to gain favor with Democrat John Kerry.
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Few recent changes have affected life in Hong Kong more than the opening of the border with the mainland.
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Beijing's effort to silence discussion about Zhao Ziyang has landed in the heart of Hong Kong.
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The financial crisis that rocked Asia a decade ago is past, but in the countries most affected, a sense of loss persists.
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BusinessWeek Online - The jubilation that swept East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 long ago gave way to the sober reality of globalization and market forces. Now a decade of resentment seems to be boiling over. In Eastern cities such as Leipzig or Chemnitz, thousands have taken to the streets since July to protest cuts in unemployment benefits, the main source of livelihood for 1.6 million East Germans. Discontent among reunification's losers fueled big gains by the far left and far right in Brandenburg and Saxony state elections Sept. 19. ...
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Viewpoint: On the 70th anniversary of Japan's brutal occupation of China's then-capital, it's time to work toward reconciliation
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As Hong Kong prepares for the 10th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, Queenâs Pier has emerged as one of several symbols of Britainâs disappearing influence.
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HONG KONG -- For decades, Chinese filmmakers haven't made a major feature film about one of the biggest wartime atrocities suffered by their country: the Nanjing massacre of 1937. Now  two directors are preparing to make movies set against the Japanese military's brutal killings in the former...