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• China draws international condemnation after sentencing Liu Xiaobo for 11 years

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Beijing, Dec. 26 (ANI): China has provoked international outcry after sentencing the country’s leading dissident to 11 years of jail over subversion charges.Liu Xiaobo, who organised a petition calling for political freedoms, stood silently in the No 1 Intermediate People’s Court in Beijing to hear the judge ...
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• UN decries sentencing of Chinese dissident

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New York, Dec 26 (DPA) The human rights commissioner of the UN Friday expressed concern about the 11-year prison term handed down to a prominent Chinese dissident.“The conviction and extremely harsh sentencing of Liu Xiabo mark a further severe restriction on the scope of freedom of expression in China,” UN High ...
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• Scientists complete sequencing Tibetan antelope genome

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Xining (China), Dec 25 (IANS) Chinese scientists said Friday they have completed sequencing the genome of the Tibetan antelope which will hopefully explain the pathogenesis of chronic plateau sickness.Tibetan antelopes, which live on China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, have been given the highest level of protection ...
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• Chinese dissident sentenced to 11 years in prison

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Beijing, Dec 25 (DPA) A Beijing court has sentenced a leading dissident to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty of subversion, state media reports said.Liu Xiaobo, 53, was Friday convicted of “inciting subversion of state power”, the official Xinhua news agency reported.The closed-door trial before the ...
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• Cameron urges China to open doors for Hollywood

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 24 (IANS) Acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron has called on officials in China to relax their strict limitations on Hollywood films insisting big budget pictures will help boost the country’s movie industry.Speaking to reporters at the Beijing press conference for his new film “Avatar”, the filmmaker ...
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• James Cameron urges China to ‘open doors’ to foreign movies

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 24 (ANI): Filmmaker James Cameron has urged Chinese government to ease its restrictions on the number of foreign films allowed to be screened a year, insisting that ‘opening the doors’ to the outside film industries would actually boost the country’s standing in the global movie market rather than ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Geely nears Volvo buy, as China ascends in autos

  
  Business Blog — Authority: 174
  BEIJING/DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday it is nearing an agreement to sell its Volvo Swedish cars unit to China’s Geely in a deal that underscores China’s arrival as a major force in the global auto industry. Go here to see the original: Geely nears Volvo buy, as China ascends [...]
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• Trial of top Chinese dissident ends; verdict Friday (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Beijing, Dec 23 (DPA) The trial against prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo lasted less than three hours Wednesday in Beijing and a verdict was expected this week, a dissident lawyer said.Liu faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of a charge of “inciting subversion of state power” at a trial that human ...
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• Trial begins against leading Chinese dissident

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Beijing, Dec 23 (DPA) A trial against prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo began Wednesday in Beijing under unusually tight security.A contingent of police and security personnel blocked the Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court, and several of Liu’s supporters who planned to express their sympathies outside ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• We Are Heading Toward Deflation

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 594
  Richard Russell, who is one of the remaining market writers who lived as a young adult through the last fourth of the six great credit contractions (the sixth one is the one we are in now), had some very interesting things to say about gold and deflation in Richard’s Remarks of December 11, 2009, as ...
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• Cambodia set to deport Uighur asylum seekers to China

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec. 20 (ANI): Twenty Muslim Uighurs, who were seeking refuge in Cambodia after fleeing the deadly ethnic riots in China, are likely to be deported back to China, a move the UN fears will lead to their harassment in that country. The Scotsman quoted Cambodian foreign ministry spokesman, Koy Kuong, as saying ...
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• Malaysia Opposition Make Unity Pledge

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 166
  KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s opposition alliance pledged not to let infighting thwart its ambition of seizing federal power within the next few years. More than 1,500 opposition officials endorsed a document that spelled out their common goals late Saturday after a daylong convention aimed at patching up rifts that ...
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• Malaysia Opposition Make Unity Pledge

  
  MastiFunda.com — Authority: 159
  KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s opposition alliance pledged not to let infighting thwart its ambition of seizing federal power within the next few years. More than 1,500 opposition officials endorsed a document that spelled out their common goals late Saturday after a daylong convention aimed at patching up rifts that ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• China in the Caribbean: The New Big Brother

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  When Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Peoples Congress (NPC) Wu Banggou arrived in the Bahamas in early September 2009 on the second leg of his Americas tour, it quickly became clear that he was not on vacation. As China’s top legislator and the highest-ranking member of the Chinese government to ...
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• China agrees to end "famous brand" subsidies: USTR (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Reuters - China has agreed to end dozens of subsidies for Chinese branded merchandise after the United States complained at the World Trade Organization that the government subsidy programs were unfair, the U.S.
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• Brace Yourselves – The Falun Gong’s Shen Yun Performing Arts Show is Back in Town

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 141
  The Shen Yun Perfroming Arts  traveling show has been known as the Chinese Spectacular, Holiday Wonders, Divine Performing Arts, and other names since 2006, but some folks around town just call it the Falun Gong Show . Well, they’re ba-aaaack  for 2010, performing in San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento ...
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• StraightUpSocial News Links for 12/16/2009

  
  StraightUpSocial — Authority: 121
  Digg Plus StumbleUpon Equals Diggstr When you mash together two great social discovery websites you get Diggstr – a new social media channel that has the discovery aspects of StumbleUpon combined with the social news elements of Digg. Chinese Government to Police Social Games Social games like Happy Farms will ...
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