Story Archive
2017-01-31
Rules banning people from accessing telecommunications services without a formal identification process come into effect this week.
2017-01-31
Xiao Jianhua leaves the city for an unknown location, sparking fears he has been detained by Chinese police.
2017-01-30
'Interceptors' hired by local governments pack people onto buses bound for an unofficial detention center after they tried to visit President Xi Jinping.
2017-01-27
Li Naiqiu said the attack has left her in danger of losing her baby, while other petitioners said her treatment was 'shocking.'
2017-01-27
Crowds gather outside the central government complaints department in Beijing on the last day of the old year.
2017-01-27
Officials of the ruling Chinese Communist Party are told to 'explain the facts' when confronted with 'negative energy' online.
2017-01-27
Song Zhiyu was imprisoned in China for speaking out for the Falun Gong movement.
2017-01-26
A strident article in praise of China's latest intercontinental nuclear missile disappears from state media news sites.
2017-01-26
Foreign diplomats in Beijing pay Chinese New Year visits to beleaguered activists facing eviction in the city.
2017-01-25
The Defense Daily accuses Cantopop star Hins Cheung of supporting independence for his home city, though he has denied it.
2017-01-25
The activists unfurled a banner in support of Xie Yang, who has filed a formal complaint over his treatment in a Changsha detention center.
2017-01-24
Xie Yang was subjected to excruciating pain, beatings, and degrading treatment at the hands of state security police, his lawyers say.
2017-01-24
Nine residents of Wukan villagers sentenced on public order charges following a standoff with armed police have already begun serving their jail terms.
2017-01-23
Mao Yushi is a reform-minded economist who has long been critical of late supreme leader Mao Zedong and the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
2017-01-23
Internet connection service providers must now register with the authorities, with a 'clean-up' operation beginning immediately.
2017-01-20
The International Federation of Journalists slams deteriorating ethics among media organizations for becoming 'propaganda tools' for Beijing.
2017-01-20
Zhou Qiang recently dismissed the idea of an independent judiciary as a wrong-headed 'Western' idea.
2017-01-19
Chinese media outlets are warned they must stick to a 'unified message' coming out of Beijing on Sino-U.S. ties.
2017-01-19
Liaoning TV host Liang Hongda ran an expose that concluded model worker and soldier hero Lei Feng was 'an ordinary young man.'
2017-01-18
Activists fear the government may simply be trying to whitewash the problem by controlling smog reports more tightly.
2017-01-18
Ye Haiyan has refused to stay quiet on social media and recently posted an essay criticizing the Maoist left.
2017-01-17
The warnings come as a new opinion poll shows that some 40 percent of young Hong Kong people don't oppose independence.
2017-01-17
Zhao Ziyang was a reform-minded liberal who fell from grace during the 1989 democracy movement on Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
2017-01-16
Wang Ling and her son Miao Juyou arrive in Bangkok to apply for resettlement after two fellow petitioners die in Henan.
2017-01-16
State news agency suggests total control of domain names may be on the cards in new draft regulations.
2017-01-13
Xi Jinping appears to fear that social unrest could undermine Communist Party rule ahead of a major political congress later in the year.
2017-01-13
A newspaper with close ties to the ruling party says Tillerson's comments were unprofessional and that Beijing won't be intimidated.
2017-01-12
Hong Kong second-in-command Carrie Lam resigned on Thursday, signaling her intention to run for the city's top job in elections in March.
2017-01-12
The clashes are sparked by a dispute over suspected official corruption surrounding an urban redevelopment project in the southern city.
2017-01-12
Human Rights Watch says President Xi Jinping ‘has embarked on the most intense crackdown since the Tiananmen era.’
