The Denver Nuggets have moved to China. At least it seemed like that last summer when forward Kenyon Martin and swingmen J.R. Smith and Wilson Chandler all signed with teams in China, wanting to guarantee salaries instead of waiting for the lockout to end. Well, the five-month lockout has ended, and the NBA will...
BEIJING (AP) — Foreign companies that are looking to China to shore up wilting global sales have been hit by higher payroll taxes, surcharges to subsidize unions and other changes that are making conditions tougher just as economic growth slows. The biggest worry for many is an abrupt order for foreign workers and their...
The Nobel winners said in a statement on Thursday, “The international community seems to have forgotten that, a year after the award ceremony, Liu Xiaobo remains in prison in China and in harsh conditions.” The five Nobel winners calling for Mr. Liu’s release are Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire and...
Patrol boats carrying police officers from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand leave Guanlei Port in Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, as a joint patrol along the Mekong River kicks off on Dec. 10, 2011. The kickoff of the joint patrol, conducted by police forces from the aforementioned four nations,...
BEIJING – The U.S. ambassador to China on Saturday urged Beijing to improve its human rights record, pointing to imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo as an example where China falls short. In a statement released on the U.N.’s International Human Rights Day, envoy Gary Locke said protection of human rights in China...
DHARMSALA, India — The political leader of the exiled Tibetan community accused China of violating human rights and leading Tibetans to commit “desperate” acts in demanding freedom, as he marked the 22nd anniversary Saturday of the Dalai Lama’s Nobel Peace Prize. At least 12 Tibetan monks, nuns and former monks have set themselves on fire...
