Farmers Rise In Challenge To Chinese Land Policy
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CHANGCHUNLING, China -- About 1,000 farmers gathered in the village meeting hall here at 8 a.m. on Dec. 19 and proclaimed what amounted to a revolt against China's communist land-ownership system.
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BEIJING -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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China's ruling party opens its annual plenary session Thursday, with the communist elite battling to bolster its waning image amid an apparent power struggle between President Hu Jintao and military leader Jiang Zemin.
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China faces food shortages and price rises as blizzards continue to destroy crops and shut down transport
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In China, where coal is king, the governmentâs push to increase the use of alternative energies faces obstacles, from bureaucracy to bottlenecks in manufacturing.
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Environmentalists in China are fighting plans for a hydropower project that they say would endanger one of the world's deepest gorges.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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When the local government announced it was going to confiscate their homes and businesses to make room for a new development, residents of this village in southeastern China fought back.
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SHANGHAI, China - Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.
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Two prominent Chinese advocates of expanding the rule of law are at odds over whether to work for change within the system, or seek an end to Communist rule.
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A giant global producer, China is expanding its role as a consumer and, in the process, creating threats and opportunity.
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Concerned about a crackdown on immigrant labor, more farmers have been moving across the border to Mexico.
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China is gearing up to dominate the genetically modified crop game. And the West is increasingly worried about monitoring these products around the globe
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DONGZHOU, China -- The resentment that led to a bloody confrontation between farmers and policemen here last December has only sharpened over the past 11 months. Local officials are still corrupt, Dongzhou residents complained, and a jutting power plant has risen on the land whose seizure by the...
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BEIJING -- China's legislature began examining a much-debated law yesterday designed to help protect private property in an increasingly well off society.
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The latest food-contamination case raises the stakes for growers and public officials.