Deadline up for China petitioners
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Chinese petitioners appealing to the government against injustices are ordered to leave their Beijing homes.
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Three candidates for Zimbabwe's presidential election next month submit their papers on deadline day.
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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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WASHINGTON The Bush administration has agreed to consider a petition from a coalition of textile manufacturers, along with the union representing their workers, asking that the federal government limit imports from China next year, an action that could
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Terrorism News, PESHAWAR - A deadline passed yesterday for a threat by an Al Qaeda-linked tribal leader to execute one of two Chinese hostages unless the captors were allowed to flee their besieged base near the Afghan border.
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Global finance chiefs sought a way  on Friday to put pressure on China to let its currency rise in  value to ease global trade imbalances and also aimed to craft a  message to soothe turbulent financial markets.
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BEA Sunday let a 5 p.m. Pacific Time deadline expire on Oracle's $6.7 million bid for the company
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China is drafting new laws to make it   easier for people to donate their organs in a country with long   transplant waiting lists, state media said on Tuesday.
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NEW DELHI: The government has met the December 31 deadline for complying with its commitment to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on patent law by promulgating an ordinance to extend products patents to pharma, food and chemicals.
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VIENTIENE, Laos: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hopes ASEAN will be able to bring forward the deadline to become an Economic Community before 2020.
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Eight foreign banks have applied to open retail operations in China, the bank regulator said as a WTO deadline for opening China's banking market passed Monday.
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China has taken the step of asking millions of migrant workers to forego their annual Lunar New Year trip home, saying the worst winter weather in 50 years is expected to pummel the country for at least another three days.
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The Chinese government orders some prices to be frozen as it battles to contain the country's inflation.
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Mediators trying to help China win the release of eight of its nationals being held hostage in Iraq are optimistic of success, as the deadline for the captives' execution approaches.
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Victim's fight could make legal history by extending the deadline for sufferers to seek compensation.
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China has honored some of its WTO commitments ahead of schedule. The revised Foreign Trade Law took effect as of July 1, which opened the foreign trade rights a half year earlier than expected.
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.