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• HTC One named best new mobile device at MWC
• Ma apologizes again for 228 Incident
• Can Shinzo Abe Fix China’s Islands Dispute?
• The shutdown of Frank Hsieh's weibo account in line with law: TAOSC
• American football gains increasing popularity in China
• Finding a Cure for Asia’s Ales
• Foreign correspondents in China call for inquiry into assault on German TV crew
• 4 killed in central China school stampede
• Acer trodding behind Asus with tablet and smartphones
• China's State Grid to boost small-scale power generation
• China to launch major aircraft engine project: sources
• Mekong river 'godfather' to be executed
• Rich mainlanders see Hong Kong as No.1 foreign investment choice
• 5-inch smartphones set to trend in China
• Chinese police bust criminal gangs in Argentina
• Elderly population to surpass 200m in 2013
• Xinhua reveals some anti-cancer medicine sold at 1,700 times production cost
• China News Broadcast, February 28, 2013: China's Control of Pakistani Port Draws Concern
• US, German hacker reports 'groundless': Chinese experts
• Nine Tibetans Go On Trial Over Burning Protests

HTC One named best new mobile device at MWC Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:58 AM PST Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC new flagship model, the HTC One, won the biggest annual prize Thursday at the Mobile World Congress tech fair in the Spanish city of Barcelona. The new HTC phone was na...

Ma apologizes again for 228 Incident Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:58 AM PST President Ma Ying-jeou apologized on behalf of the nation for the 228 Incident of 1947 once again Thursday, the 66th anniversary of the tragic event. Ma then made a deep bow to all those present at a...

Can Shinzo Abe Fix China’s Islands Dispute? Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:20 PM PST Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, visited the US last week with the message that Japan is looking to strengthen its foreign policy both with the US and in the Asia-Pacific region.

The shutdown of Frank Hsieh's weibo account in line with law: TAOSC Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:22 AM PST The account of Frank Hsieh, former chairman of Taiwan's pro-independent Democratic Progressive Party, on China's most popular microblogging service Sina Weibo was shut down by its web administrator wi...

American football gains increasing popularity in China Posted: 01 Mar 2013 03:42 AM PST The prestigious Stanford University and University of Notre Dame are set to organize American football games in China, our sister newspaper the Want Daily reported on Feb. 28. Baseball and basketball...

Finding a Cure for Asia’s Ales Posted: 28 Feb 2013 07:51 PM PST Ahead of Hong Kong's first homebrewing competition, we look at the growing interest in DIY beer in Asia.

Foreign correspondents in China call for inquiry into assault on German TV crew Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:10 AM PST I am opening my blog here to The Guardian's China correspondent, Tania Branigan The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCN) is appalled to learn of yesterday's brutal assault on a German TV crew by thugs apparently linked to local authorities in Hebei province. The crew, belonging to ARD television, narrowly avoided serious injury when two men attacked their vehicle with baseball bats, shattering the windscreen, after a high speed chase down a major highway near the city of Sanhe, 50 km east of Beijing. ARD correspondent Christine Adelhardt, accompanied by two German colleagues and two Chinese staff, had been filming in the village of Da Yan Ge Zhuang for a report on urbanisation, one of the incoming Chinese government's major challenges and a process that has often provoked disputes over land ownership. "We were filming the village square, where you could see old style farmers' houses next to a newly-built mansion behind a wall and high-rise buildings in the background," said Adelhardt, when a car drew up next to them. The car's driver began filming the TV crew. When the crew left, two cars, later joined by at least two others, gave chase, trying to force the Germans' minivan off the road and to deliberately cause a collision. They forced the ARD driver to stop at one point, whereupon five or six men surrounded the car, attempted to get in, and hammered on the windows with their fists. The crew got away, but were pursued, forced off the road and onto the sidewalk, rammed, and made to stop. Two men from the pursuing vehicles attacked the minivan with baseball bats, shattering its windscreen, before the ARD driver was able to get away again by bulldozing his way past a car parked in front of the ARD van. The crew then came across two motorcycle policemen and asked them for help. Their pursuers caught up with them, and again began smashing and punching holes in the car's windscreen, despite the police officers' attempts to control them. A local resident who witnessed the scene later told Adelhardt that one of the cars involved in the pursuit belonged to the Da Yan Ge Zhuang village communist party secretary. Eventually, police reinforcements arrived, and escorted the ARD crew to a local police station, where Adelhardt and her colleagues were questioned. Adelhardt saw a number of the men who had attacked her car at the police station, but was not sure whether they were detained. When she asked to file a charge of attempted homicide, she was assured by a local official that such charges had already been laid against the men. But a policeman told her that the investigation had found that villagers had been "offended" by the TV crew's presence and that they should have asked permission to film. Chinese government regulations governing foreign journalists in China state expressly that such prior permission is not required to film in public spaces. The FCCC has called on the authorities to investigate this incident and to punish those responsible for such a gross violation of the ARD crew's professional journalistic rights. Journalist safety China Press freedom Human rights Germany Roy Greenslade guardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

4 killed in central China school stampede Posted: 01 Mar 2013 03:30 AM PST A stampede that caused the deaths of four students in central China's Hubei province on Wednesday was attributed to dereliction of duty, according to local officials. At 6:15am, hundreds of students ...

Acer trodding behind Asus with tablet and smartphones Posted: 01 Mar 2013 03:22 AM PST Taiwan's Acer, an electronics product manufacturer, is pursuing a product similar to Taiwanese counterpart Asus' FonePad, a product it revealed at the Mobile World Congress on Feb. 23, reports our sis...

China's State Grid to boost small-scale power generation Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:42 AM PST The State Grid Corporation of China, the country's largest energy distributor, on Wednesday announced plans to facilitate the use of distributed power generation. Households and individual companies ...

China to launch major aircraft engine project: sources Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:38 AM PST The State Council, China's cabinet, is currently deliberating a major aircraft engine research and development project, sources revealed Thursday. The project will require an investment of at least 1...

Mekong river 'godfather' to be executed Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:30 AM PST Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham and three of his accomplices, all of whom were convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong river in 2011, will be executed on March 1, a local court in southwest...

Rich mainlanders see Hong Kong as No.1 foreign investment choice Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:26 AM PST China's wealthy elite are increasingly making investments abroad in order to maintain or increase the value of their assets. High net-worth individuals, typically aged 40-50, and defined those who ha...

5-inch smartphones set to trend in China Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:26 AM PST Domestically produced 5-inch touchscreen smartphones priced at 1,000 yuan (US$160) are leading the way in China, reports Guangzhou's Southern Metropolis Daily. State-owned telecom operator China Uni...

Chinese police bust criminal gangs in Argentina Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:26 AM PST China's Ministry of Public Security has busted gangs that were engaged in blackmailing Chinese supermarket owners in Argentina, as well as recovered the victims' money, according to a statement releas...

Elderly population to surpass 200m in 2013 Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:26 AM PST China will have 202 million elderly people in 2013, accounting for 14.8% of the total population, the China Research Center on Aging said on Wednesday. According to a center report, the country witn...

Xinhua reveals some anti-cancer medicine sold at 1,700 times production cost Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:26 AM PST An investigation by China's official Xinhua news agency has found that a locally manufactured medicine used to treat breast cancer is being sold at 1,700 times its production cost. One box of the med...

China News Broadcast, February 28, 2013: China's Control of Pakistani Port Draws Concern Posted: 28 Feb 2013 03:14 PM PST China's own hacking claims. Concerns over Chinese state-run company's control of Pakistan's Gwadar Port. China's local government debt and impact on growth outlook.

US, German hacker reports 'groundless': Chinese experts Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:22 AM PST Tackling cyber attacks needs all countries to have a cooperative attitude instead of nations making groundless accusations, Chinese experts said. The response comes in light of a report by US netwo...

Nine Tibetans Go On Trial Over Burning Protests Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:40 PM PST Nine Tibetans went on trial Thursday in China's Gansu province on charges they fueled self-immolation protests challenging Beijing's rule, sources in Tibet said Thursday. The court hearing under tight security in Luchu (in Chinese, Luqu) county in the Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was largely a closed door affair and was part of Beijing's efforts to criminalize the burning protests and crack down on Tibetans deemed to have provided encouragement or support to self-immolators, the sources said.       The specific charges against the nine, detained in connection with a self-immolation in Luchu county in November, were not available. "The trial was conducted quietly with a huge presence of security forces in and around the Kanlho Prefecture court. The Tibetans were barred from coming close to the court premises," one source told RFA's Tibetan Service. One of the nine charged is a monk, identified as Kalsang Samdup from the Dzamtsa Dongsuk monastery. The others were Kalsang Kyab, Kalsang Sonam, Tsesung, Dorjee Dhondup, Kalsang Namdren, Sonam Kyi, Lhamo Dorjee, and Nima—all of Dzamtsa Lotso village in Luchu. They were believed to be charged with the fatal self-immolation protest of Tsering Tashi, 31, who set himself ablaze near a local government office in Luchu on Nov. 29, 2012, the sources said. Tsering Tashi, a father of two young daughters—seven and three years old—self-immolated "in protest against the Chinese policy in Tibet and for Tibetan political freedom," an exile Tibetan with contacts in the county had told RFA at the time. Criminalizing burning protests A total of 107 Tibetans have self-immolated so far in protests challenging Chinese rule and calling for the return of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader who lives in exile in India. Chinese courts have jailed more than a dozen Tibetans, including monks, in connection with the self-immolations in the last few weeks. Some were given year jail terms of up to 13 years.   Human rights groups have criticized the Chinese authorities for criminalizing the burning protests. Chinese authorities have also deployed paramilitary forces and restricted communications and travel in the areas where self-immolations have occurred. Also Thursday, reports said police had arrested five Tibetans in Gansu province, accusing them for working at the behest of foreign forces to persuade three people to stage self-immolation protests in October and November. Three of the five were monks, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Reported by Lumbum for RFA's Tibetan Service. Translated by Karma Dorjee. Written in English by Parameswaran Ponnudurai.

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