Hong Kong’s democracy ‘referendum’ — What you should know

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By Wilfred Chan and Euan McKirdy, CNN

June 25, 2014 — Updated 0111 GMT (0911 HKT)


Hong Kong’s democratic referendum
Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 738,000 Hong Kongers Continue reading →

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Independence of Lawyers: The Role of Justice Bureaus and Lawyers’ Associations

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China’s more than 250,000 lawyers do not yet benefit from many of the fundamental protections outlined in the UN Basic Principles for Lawyers. Moreover, the growing body of rights defense lawyers Continue reading →

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The Fateful Deception Behind a Century-Long Grudge Match

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BRENT CRANE
How China’s bitter disappointment at the Paris Peace Conference sparked the outrage that would lead to the country’s long revolution—and the grudges that persist today.

Published on June 22, 2014

Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China’s Long Revolution

by Paul French

e-Penguin, 2014, 81 pp., $3.38

On November 18th, 1918 Peking was given over to riotous celebration. Continue reading →

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Chinese church’s fightback fails to stop cross removal

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Another Chinese church is stripped of its cross as a Communist Party ‘anti-church’ demolition campaign continues in Zhejiang province

A crane winches a large red cross from one of three domes on the Guantou church in Wenzhou

By Tom Phillips, Shanghai9:14AM BST 17 Jun 2014

Nearly a week after Chinese Christians thwarted Continue reading →

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A ‘Wimpy’ Plan to Save the Physical Book

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Children’s author Jeff Kinney’s new shop will emphasize reading as a tangible, community experience in a digital, fractured world.

SONA CHARAIPOTRAJUN 20 2014, 1:47 PM ET


Kinney at his office in Boston (AP Photo)
Jeff Kinney, the man behind the astonishingly powerful Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, is leading the revolution. Continue reading →

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House committee votes to give Chinese Embassy new address: No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza

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BY MICHAEL LARIS June 24 at 12:54 PM

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to rename the stretch of road in front of the Chinese Embassy “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” a symbolic nod to the Nobel Prize-winning dissident and a slap at the human rights record of officials in Beijing. Continue reading →

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Sunflower Leaders Denied Entry into Hong Kong

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Lin Fei-fan, Chen Wei-ting and Huang Kuo-chang have seen their applications to visit Hong Kong to support activists there denied by the authorities


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By J. Michael Cole June 25, 2014

As the crisis in Hong Kong intensifies amid Occupy Central Continue reading →

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China indicts activist who backed press freedom

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By AP News Jun 24, 2014 7:22PM UTC

BEIJING (AP) — A lawyer for the prominent Chinese activist Yang Maodong says Yang has been indicted on the charge of gathering crowds to disrupt public order more than 10 months after he was taken into police custody. Continue reading →

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