Tiananmen quiet on anniversary of protest crackdown
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Tiananmen Square was quiet on Monday and China's media was silent on the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators that took place there 18 years ago to the day, but rights groups said it would not be forgotten.
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Despite hopes that hosting the Games would prompt an easing on human rights in China, dissidents say they've seen no sign of a change
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Ukraine quietly marked the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution on Wednesday, with both supporters and opponents of the mass protests pausing to recall an event that all agree changed this former Soviet republic.
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Chinese police are using the annual meeting of parliament to crackdown on a wide range of dissent in what could be a dress rehearsal for the Beijing Olympics, activists and rights groups said Wednesday.
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BERLIN  - Germany marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday, weighed down by high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense in people's hearts the country is not yet fully reunited.
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China has executed far fewer people since being awarded the 2008 Olympics six years ago but the country's poor image on rights still threatens to mar the Games, a human rights campaigner said on Thursday.
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China's progress on protection of human rights was on display at a symposium on Thursday, but dozens of residents and petitioners were left outside, saying they were barred from entering.
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Hundreds of mourners braved police  checks Saturday to attend a low-key invitation-only funeral for  Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party chief purged for  opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
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China faces calls to reassess its suppression of the 1989 student protests after purged leader Zhao Ziyang dies.
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The Chinese authorities are expecting fewer executions this year than at any time in the past decade, state media says.
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Ukraine marked the second anniversary of its "Orange Revolution" with a minimum of fanfare on Wednesday, with voters disillusioned by what they see as the failure of its quarrelling leaders to bring about real change.
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China's government has tempered this year's commemoration of Japan's notorious wartime massacre of civilians in the city of Nanjing, reflecting a drive to improve relations with Tokyo and avoid inflaming nationalist passions
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NAN REN, China -- The silence in this dusty brick-making town seems idyllic. But the quiet is really the calm after a storm -- one that residents fear will soon return.
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China has gently urged Burma's military rulers to ease the strife that has seen tens of thousands take to the streets in protest, diplomats said Tuesday, even as Beijing said publicly it would stick to a hands-off approach toward its neighbor.
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About 400 people marched in driving rain in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on a pro-democracy movement.
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China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, its late supreme leader. For most Chinese the diminutive figure was the man who set the country on a pragmatic reformist
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ELEANOR HALL: China may not be exporting its revolution any more, but the Communists still like to celebrate their revolutionary heroes.