Petition seeks to punish China
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With jobs and trade both hot-button election issues, a coalition of business and union groups Thursday pushed the Bush administration to punish China for alleged unfair trade practices.
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China has expressed regret over a   request by the European Union, the United States and Canada for   a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel to hear their complaint   about China's tariff treatment of foreign auto parts.
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Vietnam has urged China to severely punish the border guards it says shot dead nine Vietnamese fishermen for allegedly straying into Chinese waters.
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The Bush administration's point man for human rights in North Korea pressed China on Thursday to put more pressure on North Korea to end human rights abuses.
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The U.S. textile industry petitioned the Bush administration on Tuesday for protection from what American companies fear will be a flood of Chinese products coming into this country when worldwide quotas are removed on Jan. 1.
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BEIJING, Feb. 14 -- An activist who helped organize a petition complaining that Chinese want "human rights, not the Olympics" will be tried for inciting subversion against the state, his lawyer said Thursday.
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Chinese media demanded official resignations and repentance on Monday amid popular outrage over the virtual enslavement of workers in scorching brick kilns that reports said had operated with government complicity.
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China has appealed to the United States not to send the "wrong signal" after Washington said a handful of detained Uighurs being held at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay would not be returned to China.
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Bloggers have used the Internet to force Chinese officials into investigating what appears to have been a brutal beating by other government officials.
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Liquor makers in China are demanding that a city regulation barring public servants and Communist Party officials from the Chinese version of a three martini lunch be revoked, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Canada joined the United Nations in calling on China to release dissident Wang Bingzhang, jailed for life two years ago for "espionage" and leading a "terrorist organisation".
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China appealed to Japan on Tuesday to reconsider its decision to grant a tourist visa to former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, accusing him of agitating for formal independence for the island.
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The gesture comes as the Bush administration is weighing whether to sponsor a resolution criticizing China's human rights record at a U.N. meeting next month.
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Amnesty International launches a campaign urging Belarus and Uzbekistan to stop using the death penalty.
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China&#39;s lawyers association has urged  making slavery a specific crime, an official newspaper reported  on Tuesday in the wake of a trial of brick-kiln operators  accused of brutally exploiting trapped workers.
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Beijing has ordered provincial governments to begin a promised nationwide crackdown on forced labor in China, sparked by outrage over reports hundreds of farmers and children were enslaved in rural brick kilns.
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A blind Chinese human rights activist   whose jailing last month sparked an international outcry has   filed an appeal, asserting authorities stifled his defense and   apparently coerced witnesses into testifying against him.