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CHINA - HUMAN RIGHTS: Chinese lawyer case criticised by activists
0 Police and men in plainclothes in Beijing scuffled with supporters of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang on Monday as he was tried over online comments critical of the ruling Communist Party. Dozens of...
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INTERNET: Activists slam China's proposed internet sovereignty as threat to...
0 Chinese President Xi Jinping's call for every nation to have independent authority over its own internet is a threat to free speech on the web, rights groups said Wednesday. Xi was attending the...
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CHINA: French journalist says China to expel her
0 Ursula Gauthier, the Beijing-based correspondent for French news magazine L'Obs, said Beijing has refused to renew her press credentials unless she apologises for one of her stories. A file picture...
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FRANCE - CHINA: Pressure mounts on French government as China confirms...
0 China has confirmed its intention of expelling French journalist, Ursula Gauthier, and accused her of "flagrantly championing" terrorist acts in a statement on its foreign ministry's website....
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CHINA - FRANCE: Journalist to be expelled from China accuses France failing...
0 A French journalist who is about to be thrown out of China has accused France's government of not doing enough to prevent her expulsion. Ursula Gauthier, correspondent for the weekly magazine L'Obs,...
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FRANCE-CHINA: French media denounce expulsion of straight talking China...
0 French editors and journalists have denounced the expulsion of French journalist, Ursula Gauthier, from China following the publication of her critical article on government policies in Xinjiang....
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FRANCE-CHINA: Dark days ahead for press in China, warns French journalist...
0 A French journalist forced to leave China because of a critical article she wrote on the government's policy in the troubled Xinjiang province, arrived back in France on Friday. Beijing accused...
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FRANCE: Paris bourse falls after China halts trading
0 The Paris bourse opened 2.48 per cent down on Thursday after China closed its stock market and accelerated the devaluation of the yuan because of fallling share prices. Other European and Asian...
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NORTH KOREA, NUCLEAR: Why does North Korea keep testing nuclear weapons?
0 The US and South Korean presidents said on Thursday that they intend to impose what they called the "most powerful and comprehensive" sanctions on North Korea after Pyongyang claimed to have tested...
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: African press review 14 January 2015
0 Tanzania's economy is doing very nicely, thank you, mainly due to a construction and mining boom. Zimbabwean officials say President Robert Mugabe is doing very well too, despite recent rumours of...
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CHINA: China’s anti-graft campaigners feel the love
0 In China the second-most senior official of Sichuan, a province with 81 million inhabitants, has been accused of graft at a high-level anti-corruption meeting that finished in Beijing on Friday. But...
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INTERNATIONAL MEDIA: New media law already affects journalism in Poland
People gather during an anti-government demonstration for free media in front of the Television headquarter in Warsaw, January 9, 2016. A banner shows Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski....
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FRANCE: Paris court sentences Chinese childminder for killing baby's parents,...
0 A French court has sentenced a Chinese immigrant childminder to 20 years in prison for killing the parents of a bay who died in her charge, then cutting up their bodies and hiding the pieces in...
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NORTH KOREA: How dangerous is North Korea's latest satellite launch plan?
0 Japan on Wednesday threatened to shoot down any missile that threatens its territory following North Korea announcement that it is preparing to launch an Earth observation satellite. The US, South...
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PACIFIC RIM: Unions claims Trans-Pacific Partnership undermines democracy
0 The biggest trade deal in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), was signed in Auckland, New Zealand, on Thursday. The deal aims at cutting tariffs and trade barriers in 12 Pacific rim...
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