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The article reports on protests against the pro-democracy "Apple Daily" newspaper in Hong Kong, China, founded by Jimmy Lai, and mentions allegations that the protests were instigated by China's Communist Party.

Reports that "The Liberation Daily of Shanghai" newspaper published an editorial which commented on the popular protests against the Japanese government as an evil plot with ulterior motives in China.

States that the `People's Daily' newspaper in China has made a rare mention of the 1989 student protest in Beijing. 10th anniversary of the massacre of the student protester in June 4, 1999; Efforts of the government to prevent the commemoration of the event.

BEIJING -- Angry demonstrators entered a government office in the port city of Qidong, near Shanghai, on Saturday and smashed computers and destroyed furniture to protest a waste discharge plant that they said would pollute the water supply. In reaction, the local government Web site said Saturday that plans for the discharge plant, which was to be part of a paper manufacturing plant, had been abandoned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A group of prominent Chinese lawyers and legal scholars have released a research report arguing that the Tibetan riots and protests of March 2008 were rooted in legitimate grievances brought about by failed government policies -- and not through a plot of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. The lengthy paper is the result of interviews conducted over a month in two Tibetan regions. It represents the first independent investigation into the causes of the widespread protests, which the Chinese government harshly suppressed. It blamed the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala for the unrest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses how the incident in Tiananmen Square in China during 1989 affected the life and career of professor Kang Zhengguo. The author explains how Zhengguo's involvement in protests after the initial attack on students made it difficult for him to find work in the following years. The article indicates that he was able to find employment at Yale University in the 1990's and went on to write the cook "Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China." The article also presents descriptions of the prisons following the attacks and how the government changed in order to keep the citizens complacent.

The article reports on the rising incidents of mass demonstrations in Guangdong Province in China. Mass unrest is increasing in the area and is likely to continue. Targets of the demonstrations include government entities, enterprise units, associations and grassroots rural organizations. The main causes include tensions in labor relations, opposition to the compensation system in land requisition and complaints about unreasonable relocation.

The article discusses the protests of self-proclaimed mankind expressing their frustrations over the built-in inequalities of global capitalism. It notes that great prosperity ruling of democratic and autocratic governments of China and India is the essential factor for political instability even violence for both countries. It mentions that metropolitan Chinese and Indian peers occupying Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, New York belong to their countries have fresh and young faith in capitalism.

The article discusses how the Chinese government has worked to decrease interest and education regarding the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989. The author explains that the Chinese government has silenced those who attempt to discuss the demonstrations publicly in order to limit knowledge among younger generations domestically and internationally. As a result, the author notes a growing indifference towards the incident as people have shifted focus to rising economic problems, among other things. The article notes that many questions regarding the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square remain unanswered in 2009.

Discusses the interest of Chinese citizens in events of June 4, 1989, during which thousands of students and pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by the Beijing regime in Tiananmen Square. View that interest in the events is waning among Chinese; Ways in which the massacre is remembered among Chinese; Reasons for Chinese apathy regarding the killings.

The article presents information on anti-Japanese protests and riots going on in Beijing, China. As September 18, 2010, marks the 79th anniversary of the incursion of Japanese troops into Manchuria, protests in different cities of China, have been scheduled. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has permitted nationalistic groups to hold protests against Japanese occupation of the Diaoyu Islands. As stated, the CCP leadership is mainly concerned about Tokyo's pivotal role in so-called Asian NATO.

The article reports that the topic about Chinese economic growth has become talk about growing disparities between the booming coastal, urban regions and the lack of progress in upcountry rural areas. There is a speculation Premier Wen Jiabao will make the rural issues the most important part of his presentation at the March 206 annual meeting of China's sham parliament, the National People's Congress. There have been public protests mostly in rural areas. Basic to the rural economy is the refusal of the Communists to deal with the problem of land tenure.