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...about the mainland's claim of sovereignty over the DIAOYU ISLANDS. The Diaoyus?known in Japan as the Senkakus?have been under Japanese control for more than a century, but feuds still rage over who owns them. In March, Chinese nationalists planted a flag on Diaoyu soil; their subsequent arrest by the Japanese navy led to furious demonstrations in Beijing, with Chinese protesters burning Japanese flags. Intensifying the furor, Taiwan two weeks ago said that it's adding the Diaoyus to official maps of its own territory. And the Diaoyus aren't the only islands of dubious value to excite...
...allegations of abuse come almost two years after Yang’s arrest in Kunming for entering the country using false identificationon on April 26, 2002. He had been banned from China following his involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square...
...children—eight-year-old Aaron and 11-year-old Anita—are in Washington, D.C. this week to commemorate the two-year anniversary of Yang’s arrest in a ceremony Monday on Capitol Hill...
Robert Tonis, chief of Harvard police, said yesterday that no Harvard policeman could legally arrest the suspect unless the officer had actually witnessed the crime...
Tonis said that because the students decided not to file a complaint against the suspect with the Cambridge police, the University police could not detain the alleged thief. He added that if the students had filed a complaint, they could have been sued for false arrest...