Word: xinhua
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...Sharks are currently owned by an unlikely consortium that includes a Shanghai media group, a domestic airport operator and a state sports institute. According to China's official news agency, Xinhua, Yao is in the process of buying out shares from some major investors. No estimate has been released, however, of just how much Yao will spend on his former team, for which he started training as a young teenager. (See 100 Olympic athletes from the Beijing Games...
...been engaged in agitation activities, such as spreading of rumors and defaming of the government.' XINHUA, China's state-run news agency, citing a report from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau on the arrest of Liu Xiaobo, a prominent dissident who co-wrote the pro-democracy manifesto Charter...
...told the official news agency that rioters burned 261 motor vehicles and about 200 shops yesterday in violence that was, according to an earlier Xinhua report, "masterminded from overseas by the separatist World Uighur Congress (WUC) led by Rebiya Kadeer." Sections of the city populated by concentrations of ethnic Uighurs, who make up only about 10% of Urumqi's population, were reportedly under curfew on Monday...
Chinese authorities announced today that some 140 people were killed and more than 800 wounded in protests that roiled Urumqi, the capital of China's far western Xinjiang province, on July 5. According to the official news agency Xinhua, Urumqi police chief Liu Yaohua told a press conference that the number of dead was still rising and that there had been extensive damage to property...
...first sign of trouble came on June 18, when a report was released from the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center, a government agency, that accused Google of providing links to pornography. A story from the official Xinhua news agency soon followed alleging that an unnamed Google official had admitted that a "huge amount of porn and lewd information" had been disseminated via the search engine. The issue has also received a significant amount of news coverage on China Central Television (CCTV...