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18.03.2009, 19:54
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It is widely believed that the Dalai Lama fled Tibet once Chinese troops gained control over the region. Actually, these two events have nine years between them.
21.02.2009, 04:15
Walter Lohman, Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies, thinks the US should develop a strategy that would hold China to a standard of behavior.
16.02.2009, 13:12
China has launched a nationwide sex education campaign aimed at breaking traditional taboos and tackling the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
21.01.2010, 08:25
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India is clamping down on beggars on the streets of capital New Delhi. Despite the optimism of the officials, the measures only appear to have a cosmetic effect.
26.11.2009, 19:40
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has officially annulled a half-century-old criminal code that forbade men from having premarital sex with women unless they were to be married.
05.10.2009, 11:00
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Most Afghan women are illiterate, face poverty, have limited access to healthcare, and subjected to continued and widespread violence. As if this is not enough, they are often arbitrarily imprisoned for “moral crimes”.
09.11.2009, 18:29
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Secret routes, fake IDs, risking freedom and even their lives – despite all this, illegal Palestinian workers flow to Israel in search for jobs they have no chance of finding at home.
23.12.2009, 20:51
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Russia's Supreme Court has ruled that the 2003 arrest of former Yukos executive Platon Lebedev was illegal on procedural grounds and must be annulled. The decision will have no impact on his imprisonment, however.
28.12.2009, 08:34
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A year after Israel's devastating operation in Gaza, Palestinians are mourning its victims. The war claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, according to human rights groups on both sides, and 13 Israelis.
05.04.2010, 10:36
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An anti-immigrant political party in India has turned its anger on white actresses working in Bollywood because, as the activists say, local dancers and actresses are losing jobs.
Published: 25 March, 2009, 14:52
In its annual report on the death penalty, Amnesty International said China leads the world in the number of executions, accounting for about three quarters of the estimated 2,400 people executed worldwide annually.
According to 2007 report of the "International Centre for Prison Studies," King's College of London; US has the highest prison population in terms of both absolute number and the ratio of total population. US has 2.19 million people in prison, China 1.55 million and Russia 0.87 million. In terms of total population ratio, China has less prison population than US, Russia, England, Spain and Netherland. US has put 738 in every 100,000 of national population in prison, Russia 611, England 148, Spain 145, Netherlands 128, China 118, Austria 105, Italy 104, Germany 95. More information, Google "World Prison population".