Academic Ties With China Face New Scrutiny in Dispute Over Dis...

New York -- The relationship between New York University and Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng - whose flight from his homeland last year caused a major diplomatic tangle - has soured as the university denies claims it is evicting Chen from his ...

The visually-challenged activist Chen Guangcheng, who last year escaped house arrest in China and moved to the United States, has accused his host New York University of forcing him out because of "unrelenting pressure" from Beijing. The ...

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University denies pressure behind end of Chen fellowship (Newser) A prominent Chinese dissident is blaming pressure from Beijing for the end of his fellowship at New York University. "The work of the Chinese Communists within academic circles in ...

Four foreigners were yesterday charged in a Nairobi court with unlawful employment. Chen Kim, a Malaysian, David Throp, a British national, Pillai Madhavan and Javashankar both Indians denied the charges before chief magistrate Doreen Mulekyo. The ...

Chen Xitong standing before a court as he was sentenced to 16 years in jail for misappropriating millions of dollars, July 31, 1998. AFP Former Beijing mayor Chen Xitong, the highest-ranking Chinese official to be jailed for corruption, died of ...

(Adds Chen family members get passports) SAN JOSE, Calif., June 7 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will complain to Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit on Friday about alleged Chinese hacking of U.S. secrets, even as the White House faces ...

BEIJING, June 5 (UPI) -- Sources told the South China Morning Post Chen, who suffered from colon cancer, died Sunday. His jail sentence corruption would have ended in September, but he was released from jail on medical parole in 2006. Chen's ...

BEIJING : Chen Xitong, who as Beijing's mayor backed the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democratic movement but later expressed regret for the loss of life, died days before its 24th anniversary, according to media reports and a family ...