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• Hu Poised To Lead China for 2nd Term

  Published: October 14, 2007, 12:00 am

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  BEIJING, Oct. 12 -- When Hu Jintao took over as China's leader five years ago, many people inside and outside the country hoped he would become a champion for political opening. What they got instead was a cautious CEO of the Communist Party bureaucracy, pursuing economic reforms set in motion by...

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

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  North Korea expressed rare gratitude Thursday for U.S. help in ending a high-seas standoff with Somali pirates, a sign of warming ties between the longtime foes, fostered by progress on Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.

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• Citizens' Groups Step Up In China

  Published: May 29, 2008, 12:00 am

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  YINGXIU, China -- Grass-roots organizations and informal networks of private citizens are playing a vital role in getting supplies to rescue workers and survivors of this month's devastating earthquake in China. The government, in a notable shift, appears content to let them do so.

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• Anger Over Rape-Murder Case Sparks Riot in China

  Published: June 30, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Anger, Over, Rape Murder, Case, Sparks, Riot, China, Center For Human Rights, County People S Hospital, Reuters Group Plc, The Associated Press, Xinhua News Agency, Guizhou Province, Hong Kong

  BEIJING, June 29 -- Thousands of people thronged a police station in southwestern China to protest the alleged coverup of a teenage girl's rape and murder, witnesses and officials reported Sunday. The crowd set fire to a government complex and several police vehicles.

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