Story Archive
2018-05-10
Pro-democracy politicians say the debarring of candidates represents an erosion of Hong Kong people's political rights.
2018-05-10
The court also orders the retrieval of U.S.$10 billion of Wu Xiaohui's personal assets and any "illegal gains" from his activities.
2018-05-09
Rules banning Chinese nationals from attending large-scale gatherings run by foreigners will be given a new lease of life.
2018-05-09
Beijing is anxious not to be left out of any peace settlement on the Korean peninsula, analysts say.
2018-05-08
The ruling Chinese Communist Party will offer 'consultations and rehabilitation' to those of its members who don't make the grade.
2018-05-08
Sun's sentence comes after a heavily scripted trial at which he pleaded guilty, and during which few details were made publicly available.
2018-05-07
Book-banning means independent booksellers can no longer sell to mainland China, while rising costs and smartphone use hit sales at home.
2018-05-07
Alumni say the howls of protest are likely linked to growing political controls, and the suppression of a recent #MeToo campaign by students.
2018-05-04
Ding Jiaxi is told he can’t board a plane to visit his wife and daughter by police citing 'national security.'
2018-05-04
Zhu Chengzhi, who is well-known in China’s dissident community, may be under criminal detention after he visited the grave of a Mao-era dissident.
2018-05-03
Existing surveillance and censorship networks already detect potential 'thought crimes' before they become public opinion.
2018-05-03
The widow of late political prisoner Liu Xiaobo has been accused of no crime but is not allowed to leave her home.
2018-05-03
The ruling Chinese Communist Party appears concerned that the pink icon is becoming a focus for satirical online memes that could target national leaders.
2018-05-02
Ten years after the 8.0 quake devastated swathes of rural Sichuan, the families of child victims say the government has yet to deliver on its promises.
2018-05-02
Local residents say they have been squeezed out of local leisure facilities, and accuse mainland Chinese tourists of dropping their trash at popular scenic spots.
2018-05-01
An unprecedented series of wildcat disputes has spread across the country, prompting police crackdowns and detentions ahead of May 1.
2018-05-01
Unions and protesting workers say the government pays scant attention to workers' needs, favoring employers at every turn.
2018-04-30
Local authorities had set up roadblocks in the area and a police cordon around the grave of a woman executed for disagreeing with Chairman Mao.
2018-04-30
Colleagues refuse to aid the 'investigation,' which comes after Wang Quanzhang has been in incommunicado detention for nearly three years.
2018-04-27
Blockchain technology, developed to encode cryptocurrencies, can never be deleted or altered, unlike webpages or social media posts.
2018-04-27
A public outcry at the destruction of the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall near Luohe city highlights how the Chairman's legacy still divides people in China.
2018-04-26
Calls are growing for the release of Liu Chengkun, detained after he penned short stories police say were based on Pan.
2018-04-26
Lam Wing-kei hopes to use the island, which has never been ruled by Beijing, as a base from which to oppose China's authoritarian regime.
2018-04-25
Diao Weiming was also the manager of a 'revolutionary' travel agency leading commemorative tours to the isolated Stalinist regime.
2018-04-25
Chinese and Hong Kong officials hint that calls for a democratic China could get politicians excluded from public life.
2018-04-24
Rights groups are calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to enforce its own laws on gender discrimination in the workplace.
2018-04-24
The authorities warned Yue Xin she 'may not graduate successfully' and forced her to delete anything related to the two-decades-old case from her devices.
2018-04-23
Yu Wensheng had previously warned that any statements made by him in detention without a lawyer present couldn't be taken as genuine, his wife says.
2018-04-23
Huang Qi's mother has appealed to the ruling Chinese Communist Party's disciplinary team to allow his release on medical parole.
2018-04-20
Annual report finds worsening repression in Tibet and Xinjiang and arbitrary arrests of Cambodian politicians.
