Hundreds march in HK to mark 1989 Beijing massacre
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About 400 people marched in driving rain in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on a pro-democracy movement.
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A group of pro-democracy activists has staged a noisy protest in Hong Kong as thousands of people joined in celebrations marking the 55th anniversary of the People&#39;s Republic of China.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao inspected troops and pro-democracy activists scuffled with police on Saturday as Hong Kong prepared to celebrate 10 years since the end of British colonial rule.
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More than a thousand people gathered Sunday to commemorate the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" voting rights march &#151; and remarked how the original protest paved the way for modern-day candidates to break political barriers.
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Ceremonies are held in Nanjing to mark 70 years since a massacre in which hundreds of thousands of Chinese died.
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Some 600 hundred protesters, including Buddhist nuns and Cambodian Muslims, marched in the capital Tuesday to urge a speedier trial for former leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge
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Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Beirut today on the second anniversary of the assassination of the former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.
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Taipei - Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Taipei Saturday afternoon, urging the local government to scrap a historical high US weapons package, which the protesters complained would trigger a bitter arms race with the Chinese mainland and
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More than 2,000 gay activists marched in Taipei calling for an end to discrimination as organisers accused police in the southern Kaohsiung city of infringing their rights by raiding a gay bar.
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Some 500 people demonstrated in Saddam Hussein's hometown on Friday, demanding his return to power, organizers said.
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For the first time in 18 years, Ding Zilin marked the anniversary of her son's death with a visit to the place where he was shot amid a violent government crackdown on protests at Tiananmen Square.
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Thousands of protesters counted in unison to 50 to mark the number of shots police fired in the wedding day death of a groom as they marched Saturday along Fifth Avenue on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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Thousands of angry pro-hunting protesters are to stage a rally at the Labour Party conference in Brighton.
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Bells gently tolled as Ukrainian and foreign dignitaries on Wednesday commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine, placing flower-encircled candles at the foot of a giant monument to the tens of thousands of victims.
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Hundreds of riot police armed with assault rifles and tear gas moved into position at sites in Rangoon where protesters staged a bloody, pro-democracy demonstration a month ago Friday
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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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Thousands in Hong Kong held a protest march on Sunday calling for direct elections in 2012, in a public rebuke against Beijing's decision not to permit universal suffrage that year, but allow it in 2017 instead.