Story Archive
2018-10-08
Meng Hongwei is being held in a secret location near Beijing, amid criticism of Interpol for accepting his resignation without comment.
2018-10-05
Chinese commentators say domestic political considerations mean Beijing is unlikely to respond positively to the US shift in direction.
2018-10-05
Financial Times Asia editor Victor Mallet, who defended the club's hosting of a pro-independence speaker in August, has had his visa renewal application rejected.
2018-10-04
Four asylum seekers are living in fear that authorities in Thailand and Taiwan will send them back to mainland China, where they are targets of the Chinese Communist Party.
2018-10-04
The move by China's internet censors shows that Beijing is serious about not offending the Kremlin as bilateral ties improve.
2018-10-03
Wang Jinfeng was released after police stopped her from harming herself near the national flagpole on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
2018-10-03
Fan Bingbing will escape criminal prosecution if she repays U.S.$130 million owed to the tax authorities.
2018-10-02
The administration of President Xi Jinping appears to be extending a travel ban previously applied in Tibet and Xinjiang to the rest of the country.
2018-10-02
China's state-backed journalists are seen as the direct agents of Beijing by their own bosses and government.
2018-10-01
New Citizens' Movement activist Yan Bozhen and China Rights Observer co-founder and torture victim Liu Xinglian applied for asylum while in transit from Thailand.
2018-10-01
Chief executive Carrie Lam says the city must now prioritize China's national security concerns over calls for freedom of speech.
2018-09-28
The move comes as the ruling Chinese Communist Party tries to roll out controversial funeral reforms across the country.
2018-09-28
Wong will be unable to leave Hong Kong for the next eight months after a court refused to ease bail conditions linked to his use of civil disobedience during the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
2018-09-27
Fellow rights activist and lawyer Teng Biao says concerns about repercussions for family back in China are likely weighing on her mind.
2018-09-27
Cases of physical attacks by families watching their homes destroyed, sometimes with scant warning, are highly sensitive in China.
2018-09-27
Massively raised fines for failure to submit to inspection highlight large amounts of Chinese money slipping in under the authorities' radar.
2018-09-26
Officials send in several hundred police to deal with any resistance as bulldozers remove shrines to communist icons.
2018-09-26
An anti-religion movement targeting employees of the state is spreading rapidly across eastern China, with punishments likely for anyone professing religious beliefs.
2018-09-25
Beijing rebuffs international concern over the move, while rights activists say China is exporting its own brand of political censorship to the city.
2018-09-25
Taiwan national Wei Ming-jen's shrine to the Chinese Communist Party has prompted questions about the island's national security.
2018-09-24
Some fear that members of the underground church will be left more vulnerable, while others are hoping for formal diplomatic ties.
2018-09-24
The Hong Kong National Party is banned under a colonial law that seeks to prevent the spread of criminal societies and the violent overthrow of the city's government.
2018-09-21
Wu Yuhua and her husband Yang Chong face charges of violating Thai immigration law.
2018-09-21
Lawmakers on the democratic island table amendments that would see those applying for residence permits from Beijing lose certain rights and privileges back home.
2018-09-21
The government is 'blocking off a channel' for Chinese citizens to find news and ideas that it doesn't approve of.
2018-09-20
Children left behind in rural areas by parents seeking work in far-off cities are particularly vulnerable, reports indicate.
2018-09-20
The detentions follow an attempted protest on Beijing's Tiananmen Square during the China-Africa Forum earlier this month.
2018-09-19
China's foreign ministry confirms it has been talking to the U.S. about its requirement that Xinhua and CGTN be registered as agents under lobbying laws.
2018-09-19
Chu Ling, wife of jailed cartoonist Jiang Yefei, says her husband has sustained permanent damage to one eye while inside a Chinese jail.
2018-09-19
Liu Zhixiang is being pursued by officials and police from Jiangxi amid growing public anger over coercive funeral reforms.
