Chinese fugitive leaves cave after 8 years
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A Chinese man wanted by police on gun charges has given himself up after hiding in a cave constructed at the back of his house for eight years, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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Research in Motion has received clearance to sell its BlackBerry device in China after eight years of trying.
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A factory worker who helped to organize a strike during China's 1989 pro-democracy protests has been released after nearly 15 years in prison, a U.S.-based prison rights group said Saturday.
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Chinese dissident Liu Jingsheng is freed after a decade in jail but says his freedom of speech is limited.
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BEIJING, July 4 -- The wife of a blind legal activist, who was jailed after he revealed forced abortions and sterilizations, sneaked out of her house in the eastern province of Shandong and traveled to Beijing on Wednesday to plead her husband's case.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while working for the New York Times expects to be freed at the weekend, his family and a lawyer said, ending a controversial prison term that highlighted the country's tough media controls.
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An Italian aid worker walked free from the southern Philippines jungle, a day after he was abducted by local gunmen, officials said.
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The Austrian teenager kidnapped and held captive for eight years, leaves hospital to move to a semi-independent flat.
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A convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal escaped from custody Friday while being transported to a hospital in eastern Bosnia after complaining of feeling ill, authorities said.
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A Chinese journalist for the New York Times is freed after spending almost three years in jail in China.
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Two Chinese brothers clawed their way out of a collapsed coal mine after surviving underground for nearly six days, shocking grieving relatives who had burned money for the men's souls to use in the afterlife, state media said Monday.
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A businessman has been sentenced to life in prison and his wife to 14 years behind bars for stealing &#36;50 million in China's second-biggest bank fraud since the start of communist rule in 1949, a news report said.
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Ksor Huaih, one of hundreds of despairing Vietnamese Montagnards escaping a repressive government, carried just the clothes on his back and some dried food when he left on his trek to Cambodia.
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The Nigerian military has stormed a hideout and freed one of two Chinese workers abducted by unknown gunmen more than two months ago in the country&#39;s southeast, the police said Monday.
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China's search leader keeps growing.
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MANILA: An Italian aid worker walked free from the southern Philippines jungle on Wednesday, a day after he was abducted by local gunmen, officials said.
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A Chinese court sentenced the founder  of the country's largest pornography Web site to life  imprisonment on Wednesday and jailed another eight of the  site's organizers, state media reported.