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Thousands of Taiwanese farmers staged a raucous protest Thursday against a government plan to allow the import of U.S. beef containing a growth drug, challenging the island's president to "say no" to Washington.

At least 12 people were killed in riots Tuesday near the Chinese city of Kashgar in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media reported.

China will allow commercial banks to have more money for lending from February 24, as the country proceeds with a mild easing in monetary policies to ensure liquidity and economic growth amid a grim global outlook.

An overseas Tibetan news service says Chinese police have detained a Tibetan writer in a western county hit by anti-government protests as China’s crackdown against persisting unrest spreads. The Voice of Tibet, which is based in Norway, says that more than 20 police officers took Gangkye Drubpa Kyab from his home in Serthar county’s main town on Wednesday night and that he has not been released.

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The monk reached into the folds of his red robe, pulled out a small notebook, and gently slipped from its pages a tiny photograph. The man in the creased picture was a relative. He used to be a fellow monk at the monastery perched in snow-wrapped mountains outside the town of Aba. Then a Chinese security officer killed him, the monk said. It is a sorrow that cannot be spoken of in public. A local government "working team" visits the monastery often, looking for signs of discontent, according to monks there. Sometimes, they said, when returning to their living quarters from chanting or studying, the monks find a door busted in and possessions scattered after a search.

Tibetan separatists who attacked police stations with rocks and molotov cocktails sparked last week's deadly violence in Sichuan, the Chinese government said Wednesday, countering claims by rights groups that police fired on unarmed protesters.