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Analysis: Income gaps, corruption fuel China riots - The Associated Press border=

Analysis: Income gaps, corruption fuel China riots - The Associated Press

The Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) — Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China. In the most recent case, …
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Written on July 14, 2009 | Posted in World News | No comment

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Defiant Taiwan ex-president on trial for corruption - Reuters border=

Defiant Taiwan ex-president on trial for corruption - Reuters

Reuters
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian, an anti-China firebrand, arrived in court on Thursday at the start of a lengthy, bitter corruption trial that he has dismissed as a political plot.
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Written on March 26, 2009 | Posted in World News | No comment

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Pope condemns African corruption - BBC News

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Pope Benedict XVI has made an emphatic appeal to Africans to rid the continent of corruption once and for all. The 81-year-old was speaking during a televised address in Angola during a week-long tour of African countries.
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Written on March 20, 2009 | Posted in World News | No comment

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