Riot police quell two separate large protests in China Fri Sep 5, 8:07 AM ET China dispatched large numbers of soldiers and armed riot police to quell two major protests, officials and a rights group said Friday, in the latest public discontent to rock the communist nation. In central Hunan province Thursday, 5,000 soldiers and armed police converged on a furious crowd of up to 10,000 demanding money back from an alleged fundraising fraud, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said. In a separate protest Thursday, up to 10,000 people gathered around a factory in the...