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Villages were cordoned off and thousands of police kept watch along roads in central China on Tuesday following riots between majority Han Chinese and a Muslim minority that killed seven people and injured 42.
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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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Thousands of police patrolled the city of Langchenggang in central China on Monday, and residents stayed indoors after deadly street fights between members of the country&#39;s main ethnic group and a Muslim minority.
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China has declared martial law in parts of the central province of Henan after bloody clashes between minority Muslims and the majority Han Chinese.
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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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Hundreds of Chinese peasants have protested over family-planning rules in an area hit by similar demonstrations earlier this month, state media said on Thursday, with some setting fire to government vehicles.
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Fire rages in forest in China's northeast region    HOHHOT, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- A fire is raging in a forest in northeast China and 500 armed soldiers are struggling to put it out, local authorities announced on Sunday.
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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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extent of unrest in rural China, fuelled by corruption and a growing gap between rich and poor. the Hui Muslim minority sparked rioting through the weekend.
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China flooded dozens of evacuated  villages on Tuesday to ease pressure from a swollen river after  torrential rains that have killed more than 100 people  nationwide.
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Chinese paramilitary police stand guard near a bridge leading to the town of Langchenggang in China&#39;s Henan province Monday Nov. 1, 2004.
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Aggrieved citizens from China's provinces live in a crowded Beijing village while petitioning the government, which plans to raze the village ahead of the Olympics.
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Astana -Seoul, October. 27 KAZINFORM -- China&#39;s raid and arrest Tuesday of scores of people believed to be North Korean asylum seekers and their South Korean helpers marks a hard-line turn by Beijing in its handling of the delicate issue.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's central government has dispatched a team of inspectors to some provinces in an attempt to put a stop to local government land grabs.
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Floods and landslides have killed 55 people in southwest China in the past four days, washing away homes and roads, knocking down power lines and leaving at least one city cut off, state media said on Monday.
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Reports from southern China say a riot broke out after a dispute at a bridge toll-booth in the province of Guangdong.
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Chinese authorities offered no details Monday on weekend clashes between ethnic Chinese and Muslims that may have killed 148 in central China&#39;s Henan province.