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NEW BRIGHTON ― After a family lost everything in a duplex fire last Tuesday night, local community members have stepped up to help raise money for their neighbors.
The USTR petition is an unusual avenue for families to seek redress for the fentanyl crisis, said Jeff Moon, a former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Affairs who now advises ...
Loans to China were suspended by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and foreign governments; [299] China's credit rating was lowered; [298] tourism revenue decreased from US$2.2 billion to US$1.8 billion; and foreign direct investment commitments were canceled. However, there was a rise in government defence spending from 8.6% in 1986, to ...
Prosecutors in northeastern China are pursuing criminal charges against the managers of a construction firm blamed for the collapse of the roof of a middle school gymnasium, leading to 11 deaths.
Victims of a famine forced to sell their children from The Famine in China (1878) Global famines history. This is a List of famines in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1,828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another. The famines ...
In 1990, on the first anniversary of the massacre, Reuters quoted an estimate of 15,000 people who took part in the demonstration. Organizers from the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Democracy in China (also known as Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China) provided an estimate of 30,000. Attendees chanted ...
None of the victims had life-threatening injuries, the police said. Zabner said he was stabbed in the arm six inches below his shoulder, and that paramedics arrived after about 20 minutes.
Once a Red Guard himself during the Cultural Revolution, Song Yongyi, the author of the book, travelled to study in the United States in 1989. [6] [7] In August 1999, Song went back to mainland China to collect and research on materials regarding the Cultural Revolution, but was arrested and detained by the Chinese authorities and was accused of "stealing state secrets".