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US Envoy Says Human Rights Talks With China Yield Little
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIJING -- An American human rights envoy said Thursday that China provided no useful information when probed about specific cases of individuals who have been detained or who disappeared in a major crackdown on dissent in recent months. Hundreds of lawyers, activists, and other intellectuals have been questioned, detained, confined to their homes or have simply disappeared, apparently to squelch any chances of the kind of popular uprisings roiling the Middle East and North Africa. The clampdown on dissent is the broadest and harshest in years by China's Communist government. Michael Posner, ...
Carter, Former World Leaders in N. Korea for Talks
By not in system - AOL NewsPYONGYANG, North Korea - Former President Jimmy Carter and other past world leaders were hoping to meet with North Korea's ruler as they began a three-day mission Tuesday to discuss dangerous food shortages and stalled nuclear disarmament talks. Children presented flowers to Carter, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland and former Irish President Mary Robinson at the airport, and the group was greeted by Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, according to Associated Press Television News in Pyongyang. The former leaders didn't know ahead of ...
China Dogs' Rescue Shows Growing Animal Activism
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIJING -- After spotting a truck packed with hundreds of whimpering dogs on a Beijing highway, a man put out a call on a microblogging site, begging fellow animal lovers to help him force the driver to release the animals. Around 200 people responded, blockading the truck at a toll booth for 15 hours until they finally negotiated the dogs' release for $17,000, saving them from being slaughtered and served as food. Many of the animals were dehydrated, injured and suffering from a potentially deadly virus; at least 68 have been hospitalized. Video footage taken at the site and provided to The ...
Wild and Crazy Guy: Li Wei Is the Jackie Chan of the Art World
By David Moye - AOL NewsSelf-portraits are old hat in the worlds of art and photography, but a photographer in Beijing, China, is taking the act of photographing himself to new heights -- literally. He's Li Wei and, for the past decade, he's been giving the world an eyeful via a portfolio of pictures that show him doing everything from falling out of a window to doing a handstand on a giant fork to holding a bridal veil while seeming to fly in midair. In the process, he's won popular acclaim from both the general public -- who are tripped out by the audacious and bizarre photos -- and serious critics, including New ...
5 Asian Nuclear Reactors Face Tsunami Risk
By not in system - AOL NewsJAKARTA, Indonesia -- The skeleton of what will soon be one of the world's biggest nuclear plants is slowly taking shape along China's southeastern coast - right on the doorstep of Hong Kong's bustling metropolis. Three other facilities nearby are up and running or under construction. Like Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant they lie within a few hundred miles of the type of fault known to unleash the largest tsunami-spawning earthquakes. Called subduction zones, these happen when one tectonic plate is lodged beneath another. And because the so-called Manila Trench hasn't been the source of a ...
Supreme Court Turns Away New Appeal From Chinese Muslims at Gitmo
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The five remaining Chinese Muslims who are being held at Guantanamo Bay lost their latest bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to hear their case. The justices turned away a plea from the five detainees, who have been held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba for nearly nine years. The detainees had previously declined an offer to be resettled in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, where six other Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, have gone to live. It is not clear why the five refused to go to Palau, or to a second, unidentified country that the Obama administration has said was willing to ...
World's Fattest 4-Year-Old Offered Free Treatment in Hong Kong
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsChinese media have dubbed him "No. 1 fat kid," but Lu Zhi-hao could soon be dropping the pounds. A Hong Kong weight-loss clinic has offered to treat the 136-pound boy known as Xiao Hao, believed to be the world's heaviest 4-year-old, and they're doing it free of charge. Xiao Hao is just a shade over 3 1/2 feet tall and has already been examined at several hospitals to determine the cause of his obesity, which doctors attribute to poor eating habits, The Daily Telegraph reports. ...
Major Economies Pledge Support for Regime Changes
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The world's major economies neared an agreement Friday on how to measure the types of dangerous imbalances that contributed to the worst global downturn in seven decades. After an all-night negotiating session, officials said that they had resolved key issues that had blocked implementation of a rebalancing program. The effort will monitor the major economies and prod them to take corrective action when imbalances in such areas as foreign trade or government debt rise to excessive levels. Two G-20 officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that various objections ...
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