Chinese security officers were out in force in the streets of Lhasa on Thursday, as the Tibetan capital prepared itself for further protests from Buddhist monks and ethnic Tibetans against Chinese rule, the Financial Times reported. The demonstrations were timed to mark the 49th anniversary of the uprising which saw the Dalai Lama flee to […]
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A Ministry of Culture was left off the list of China’s new "super-ministries" after officials were unable strike a balance between the interests of the various censors, the South China Morning Post reported. Four ministries have been scrapped and about 15 ministerial agencies shifted around in the latest round of restructuring, which has seen the […]
The nominees for China’s president and premier were announced at the National People’s Congress session yesterday to stand for election, AFP reported. The nomination lists were given to the nearly 3,000 delegates at the NPC for "discussion and consultation." The legislature will elect a president, vice president and a legislature head on Saturday. President Hu […]
China said in a meeting of its parliament that it will set up five new "super ministries" in order to curb corruption and streamline the government, the AFP reported. The five new ministries will be: the Ministry of Industry and Information, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the […]
The US State Department dropped China from its list of the world’s 10 worst human rights violators, AFP reported. China had been named as one of the world’s worst violators of human rights in the past two yearly reports issued by the State Department. China was classified as an authoritarian country undergoing economic reform and […]