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Tight Security After Deadly Xinjiang Clash

The weekend clashes left at least 156 dead and hundreds injured.

(HONG KONG) - Residents of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) report a heavy police and paramilitary presence inside and outside the regional capital, Urumqi, where deadly clashes erupted at the weekend following a protest by ethnic minority Uyghurs, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

"The situation in Gulja is so intense right now. I saw armed police everywhere when I went out to buy oil this morning. I saw five armored vehicles patrolling the streets..."

American Journalists Investigating Human Trafficking Sentenced to 12-Years in North Korean Gulag

One of the last nation's to hold onto hardcore Communism takes another step in the wrong direction.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Two Asian/American journalists associated with former Vice President Al Gore have been sentenced to 12-years in North Korea's notorious prison camps. North Korean Communists charge that Laura Ling and Seung-eun Lee entered the country illegally and are spies.

Salmonellosis Outbreak Traced to Pepper Spices; Break Came in Testing at a Portland Restaurant

The contaminated pepper was packaged under the “Lian How” and “Uncle Chen” labels and sold to restaurant suppliers and markets – much of it going to Chinese and Vietnamese establishments.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Public health officials in Oregon and three other western states have tracked a multi-state outbreak of salmonellosis to ground pepper imported, packaged and distributed by a California company.

Union International Food Co. of Union City, Calif., immediately announced a voluntary recall of ground black pepper and white pepper as well as a number of other products that could have been cross-contaminated in its manufacturing facility.

Video Released in Confrontation Between Chinese Vessels and USNS Impeccable (VIDEO)

There don't appear to be hard feelings in the high sea antics between the U.S. and the Chinese.

(SALEM, Ore. ) - Five Chinese vessels shadowed and in the words of the U.S. Navy, "aggressively maneuver in dangerously close proximity to USNS Impeccable in an apparent coordinated effort to harass the U.S. ocean surveillance ship while it was conducting routine operations in international waters.

Chinese officials say the Impeccable was part of a calculated U.S. surveillance operation in the South China Sea.

U.N. Will Recommend that the World Should Ditch the Dollar

UN Currency specialist Avinash Persaud has long argued that the dollar would give way to the Chinese yuan as a global reserve currency within decades.

(LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) ) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar.

Chinese Dissident’s Family Defects

China revoked the licenses of attorneys like Zhisheng, who offered to represent Tibetans taken into custody for their role in the March 2008 Tibetan uprising in Lhasa.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The wife and children of a top civil rights lawyer under close surveillance by the Chinese authorities have arrived in the United States after walking across the border to Thailand.

Geng said her daughter, 15, and son, 5, had suffered “great hardship” in China from living under virtual house arrest in their Beijing home.

Chinese Version of Testy Encounter with U.S. Ship

Today's story from the China Daily on the reported "harassment" of a U.S. Naval ship in the China Sea.

(BEIJING ) - China on Tuesday said that a U.S. navy vessel, which conducted activities in China's special economic zone in the South China Sea, violated the international and Chinese law.

Chinese Vessels Shadow and Harass U.S. Navy Ship

“These are dangerous close maneuvers that these vessels engaged in,” - Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Five Chinese vessels shadowed and aggressively maneuvered close to the USNS Impeccable in the South China Sea yesterday, a senior Pentagon official said today.

Lawyer for Guantanamo Bay Uyghurs Vows To Fight

The Chinese government says the men are members of the outlawed East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which Beijing and Washington regard as a terrorist organization.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The lead lawyer for 17 ethnic Uyghurs held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is vowing to fight a new legal order keeping the men in U.S. military custody and is calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to free them quickly, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

“We are bloodied but unbowed. We will fight this,” Sabin Willet, who represents the 17 Uyghurs—Muslims from China's northwestern Xinjiang region—said in a telephone interview on his way back from visiting the men at Guantanamo Bay.

Party Interests Drive China

RFA says Civil Rights movement holds the key.

(HONG KONG) - China's ruling Communist Party is a highly efficient political machine that drives the country's 1.3 billion people with scant regard for their welfare, a former top official has said in a series of essays broadcast by Radio Free Asia (RFA).

In a blistering conclusion to a series of essays for RFA’s Mandarin service to mark the 30th anniversary of China's economic reforms, Bao Tong, former aide to the late ousted premier Zhao Ziyang, said the main hope for political reform now lies with the country's civil rights movement, as its citizens increasingly begin to invoke rights already enshrined in law to protect themselves against abuse.