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China Moves To Arrest Hundreds as Deadline in Tibet Passes (VIDEO)

Authorities in areas of western China banned all media reporting of anti-Chinese protests.

(KATHMANDU, Tibet) - Authorities began arresting hundreds in the wake of anti-Chinese protests over the weekend in Tibet, as a deadline passed for those involved in recent marches, demonstrations, and rioting to "surrender" to police.

One witness in Lhasa said armed police were rounding up "hundreds" of suspects.

Violence and Protests Spreading from Tibet into Neighboring Chinese Provinces

Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, remains under lockdown, with a heavy presence of security forces, police, and armored vehicles.

(KATHMANDU, Tibet) - Violence erupted March 14th after five days of protests, with demonstrators torching Chinese-owned shops and cars in the worst violence in the region in two decades.

Thubten Samphel, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama’s exile government, said multiple witnesses inside Tibet had reported at least 80 people had been killed since Friday, although how many were protesters was unclear.

Tibetans Cite Spreading Unrest, Mounting Death Toll, as Chinese Clamp Down

Protests have meanwhile spread outside Lhasa and into the Amdo and Kham regions of China’s Qinghai and Sichuan provinces.

(KATHMANDU, Tibet) - Chinese authorities have locked down the Tibetan capital as witnesses report spreading demonstrations in more remote areas and a climbing death toll after security forces fired on rioting protesters, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Sources in Lhasa said residents had been warned to stay indoors after the worst unrest in Tibet in two decades. Others described seeing tanks and armored personnel carriers in the streets.

Chinese Police Clash With Tibetan Protesters; 2 Dead

A Han Chinese resident of Lhasa said cars and shops had been torched, while another said the situation was "very messy.”

(KATHMANDU) - Chinese police fired on rioting Tibetan protesters in Lhasa on Friday, killing at least two people, as Tibetans torched cars and shops and anti-Chinese demonstrators surged through the streets of the regional capital, Radio Free Asia reports.

Witnesses who spoke to RFA’s Tibetan service reported seeing two bodies in the central Barkor area of Lhasa, while unconfirmed reports set the death toll higher.

China Detains Tibetan Monks Protesting on Key Anniversary

In his own statement marking the anniversary, the Dalai Lama called on the world to press China to allow freedom of expression during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

(KATHMANDU) - Chinese authorities in Tibet today detained dozens of Tibetan monks staging a rare protest march on a key anniversary into the regional capital, Lhasa, Radio Free Asia reports.

An authoritative source who declined to be identified told RFA’s Tibetan service as many as 300 monks set out from Drepung monastery outside Lhasa on the roughly 10-km (5-mile) walk into the city center.

U.S. Signs Arrangement with China Over POWs and MIAs

The cooperation of the Chinese people and government has led to the recovery of the remains of Americans lost in the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Korean War and World War II.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. and Chinese officials signed a document Friday morning in Shanghai, China to formalize research in Chinese archives on Korean War POW/MIA matters.

Everyman`s Greed: Corruption in China

If only every politician, every ruling government adhere to this revelation: ‘The world has enough for every man’s needs but not every man’s greed’, then, and only then, will the disease of corruption be truly eradicated.

(PENANG, Malaysia) - When we speak of corruption, the most common manifestation is of a corrupt public official taking bribes in return for favors.

It is indeed a tall order to expect a huge country like China to be administered by an army of upright officials. No country in the world, east or west, north or south, possessed a civil service free from corruption; neither to be found in the past, the present or the future.

Chinese Rights Lawyer Beaten, Family Says, While Staging Prison Hunger Strike

Guo first drew international attention as part of the legal team helping the villagers of Taishi, Guangdong province, to prepare a recall case against their elected village chief amid allegations of corruption during a land deal.

(HONG KONG) - Prominent Chinese civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong has been beaten in prison and is now on the thirteenth day of a hunger strike, his wife and sister have told Radio Free Asia.

He was beaten December 18th, she said, the fifth day after he entered the prison in Meizhou. A fellow prisoner beat him while more than 200 other prisoners looked on, Guo’s wife, Zhang Qing said.

Up to 2,000 Police Guarding Key Chinese Pylon, Tear Gas Fired

Villagers have accused the police of collaborating with elements of organized crime.

(HONG KONG) - Up to 2,000 police are guarding a key electricity pylon in the southern Chinese village of Dongzhou, and they have fired multiple rounds of tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters, Radio Free Asia reports.

Witnesses told RFA’s Mandarin service that 1,000 more police were sent in December 22nd, in addition to some 1,000 police sent in earlier.

Thousands Riot at Chinese Military Academy Over Diploma Status

Thousands of military academy students in central China’s Anhui province are rioting after news spread that the government wouldn’t recognize diplomas awarded to the fee-paying students, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

(HONG KONG) - “It was total chaos. Many people were beaten and were bleeding. The school buildings are a mess,” one student, surnamed Peng, told RFA’s Mandarin service.

“There is a 15-story building on campus. It’s been vacated. The iron doors in the corridors were smashed. In the morning armed police and police cars arrived to restore order. Their attempts were futile. Police cars were overturned,” Peng said.