3/18/2008
SYDNEY, Australia (AP)

Protesters in Australia burned Chinese flags Tuesday and police arrested 50 activists in Nepal during renewed demonstrations against Beijing’s crackdown on Tibet.

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3/18/2007

BEIJING (AFP)-Prominent Chinese dissident Hu Jia went on trial here Tuesday accused of subversion, as the government denied launching a crackdown on dissent ahead of the Olympic Games in Beijing.

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March 17, 2008 12:12 PM PDT

Posted by Greg Sandoval

Protests break out in some nation around the globe and one of the first things a media-shy government does–just after sending in riot police–is pull the plug on YouTube.

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March 18, 2008; Page A8

By LORETTA CHAO

BEIJING — From people stranded by snowstorms to the extramarital affairs of television anchors, news travels quickly in China, although that hasn’t been the case for the recent Tibetan antigovernment protests.

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Updated: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:01 PM PDT

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher slammed the Bush Administration on Wednesday in response to a U.S. State Department list of human rights violators that did not include China this year.

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Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:07am EDT

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China put more than a dozen Hong Kong journalists on a flight out of Tibet on Monday accusing them of “illegal reporting”, the Hong Kong Journalists Association said, criticizing the move.

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Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2008

When the Olympic bid committee came calling on Beijing in 2001 –before the Chinese capital was awarded the 2008 games — government workers were sent in advance to cover up the damage pollution had done to the city’s parks by spraying thousands of litres of green food colouring on the smog-stained grass. That should have been a warning: Nothing about China hosting the Olympics was going to be as sanguine as it appeared.

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17 Mar 2008 21:37:57 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch
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