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Hong Kong bans Tibetan flags at Olympic event

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

Tibetan flags will be banned from all Olympic equestrian events in Hong Kong under rules aimed at heading off political propaganda and protests inside competition venues, organizers said Friday. The crackdown guidelines apply to flags representing countries and regions without athletes in the events.

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Chinese Pollution = Increase in Cancer

Posted by bugaloo

In attempting to increase its economic development, the Chinese regime has managed to increase its mortality rates. China is one of the most polluted countries in the world, if not the most polluted.

Statistics furnished by the World Bank are astonishing: 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in China; 90% of urban groundwater in China is contaminated; it is estimated that circa 900,000 people die every year from air and water pollution.

Highly toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury contaminate cultivable terrain thus poisoning the food, while the number of Chinese citizens who die due to lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases is constantly increasing....

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Beijing Detains Quake Critic

Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot

In China it is known as Article 4, and it forms part of the "State Security Law of the People's Republic of China". This might not mean a lot to most people, but Article 4 is famous, no, make that infamous, amongst China watchers.

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The writing on the wall

Posted by ronnie12

Between 1978 and 2007 China saw its economy increase by nine times thus becoming the first exporter in the world, the second oil importer and a member of the "gotha" of super potencies. But this picture is not as grandiose as it appears because it is the achievement of a country that apparently refuses to respect the minimal rules adopted by the majority of the other countries.

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The Perfect Genocide Plan, Part 2

Posted by ronnie12

The Perfect Genocide Plan continues.

More than 2 weeks after Cyclone Nargis, Than Shwe and friends have decided to allow its South Asian neighbors to send medical personnel and an assessment team into Burma, in order to appease the continuing international outcry.

Just enough of a concession to avoid being invaded for the mass murder they are in the process of committing.

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China braces for possible lake bursts - swissinfo

Posted by slicely from writeon.swissinfo.ch

A Chinese lake damaged by an earthquake may be about to burst its banks, state media said on Saturday, as President Hu Jintao headed for the epicentre with the death toll expected to rise to 50,000.

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China races to bury quake dead and manage survivors

Posted by slicely from writeon.swissinfo.ch

China struggled on Friday to bury the dead and offer relief to those left injured, homeless and without food and water by the earthquake that may have killed more than 50,000 people

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