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Read More at Wikipedia ›Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East .
Authorities detained activists, increased the number of police on the streets, disconnected some mobile phone text messaging services and censored Internet postings about the call to stage protests at 2 p.m. in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities.The campaign did not gain much traction among ordinary citizens and the chances of overthrowing the Communist government are slim, considering Beijing's tight controls over the media and Internet. A student-led, pro-democracy movement in 1989 was crushed by the military and hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed.On Sunday, police took at least three people away in Beijing, one of whom tried to lay down white jasmine flowers while hundreds of people milled about the protest gathering spot, outside a...The Jasmine revolution in Tunisia and the ongoing tumult in Egypt and Yemen present a dilemma for United States foreign policy. The administration is concerned about...
Tunisia's new interim government worked Tuesday to replace ministers who quit and weighed possible deeper changes to the Cabinet as protesters continued to complain ...
Looting, deadly prison riots and street chaos engulfed Tunisia on Saturday, a day after mass protests forced its strongman to flee. A new interim president was sworn...
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More than 200 protesters from around Tunisia descended on the capital Sunday to join demands to rid the interim government of holdovers from the ousted former presid...
China filed subversion charges against Internet users who reposted a call for protests as the authoritarian government enforced its crackdown against any Middle East...
Chinese police are further intensifying pressure on foreign reporters, warning them to stay away from spots designated for Middle East-inspired protests and threaten...
Tunisia's government issued an international arrest warrant Wednesday for ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and six relatives, accusing him of taking money ou...
BEIJING -- Google said Monday the Chinese government is interfering with its email services in China , making it difficult for users to gain access to its Gmail prog...
China doesn't roll out the welcome mat to foreign journalists, even at the best of times.Whether it be the customs official checking your TV equipment as you arrive ...
China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it did not accept accusations from Google that the Chinese government was making it difficult for Gmail users to use th...
Tunisia's interim president chose a former government minister as a new prime minister on Sunday, appealing for a return to calm following new violent protests that ...
Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution," with hundreds of onlookers but only a handful of p...
Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently modeled after pro-democracy demon...
Chinese authorities cracked down on activists as a call circulated for people to gather in more than a dozen cities Sunday for a "Jasmine Revolution."The source of t...
For those who rule out the possibility of a Middle East-style democracy revolution in China, consider the town of Xiangshui.There, tens of thousands of farmers fled ...
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The Foreign Ministry in Beijing has refused to comment directly on calls for a so-called 'Jasmine Revolution' in China but said nothing could shake the majority's de...
Unrest spreads across the Middle East
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