Story Archive
2015-12-21
Sun Wenlin is taking his local civil affairs bureau to court, arguing that the terms 'husband' and 'wife' need not be gender-specific.
2015-12-21
The disaster came when a huge pile of unwanted earth collapsed, engulfing 33 buildings.
2015-12-18
While US and EU companies won't be affected, China could use sanctions to intimidate its regional partners.
2015-12-18
They say incoming Han Chinese migrants are exploiting their grazing lands and threatening their way of life.
2015-12-17
They were detained on Monday after showing support for Pu Zhiqiang outside a court building in the Chinese capital.
2015-12-17
The city wants polluting industries to pay a surcharge for every metric ton of volatile organic compounds they release into the atmosphere.
2015-12-16
Beijing should also have more of a say in how the Internet is run globally, Xi Jinping tells a conference.
2015-12-16
Local people fear the plant will pollute the local environment with the carcinogenic by-products of waste incineration.
2015-12-15
Wang Junli had been trying to cross the border to Myanmar amid an ongoing crackdown on exiled Chinese dissidents in Thailand.
2015-12-15
The country holds a quarter of all journalists detained or imprisoned around the world, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
2015-12-14
The case against Pu rests on tweets critical of Beijing's ethnic policies and online attacks on politicians.
2015-12-14
Labor activist Zhu Xiaomei's application to return home and feed her infant son is rejected.
2015-12-11
The drivers are angry at the rise of unlicensed cab journeys via Didi, an uber-like taxi app.
2015-12-11
Dozens of rights lawyers and activists had gathered in the southwestern region of Guangxi for the meeting.
2015-12-10
Annual day features marches in Myanmar and Cambodia and a hunger strike in Inner Mongolia.