Story Archive
2017-09-29
Police say the article he wrote was 'rumor-mongering,' but families of disappeared students say it was factually accurate.
2017-09-29
Beijing has taken some steps to enforce UN sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, but officials and analysts say their impact is limited.
2017-09-28
Hao Wei died after arriving to seek political asylum in Bangkok with late-stage cancer last October.
2017-09-28
Protesters mark the first time riot police fired tear gas on student protesters at the start of the mass popular movement for full democracy.
2017-09-28
Editors from Rose China and Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch are detained, held incommunicado, and placed under round-the clock guard by state security police.
2017-09-27
Lee Ching-yu, wife of Lee Ming-cheh, says his fundamental right to visits from his family have been stripped away.
2017-09-26
Student protesters at a cross-straits music event are attacked by unidentified individuals wielding sticks.
2017-09-26
Users report an intermittent calling service and an inability to send text messages since a reported block began this week.
2017-09-25
The 'smart' video monitoring software can reliably identify people by descriptors including age, gender and clothing worn.
2017-09-25
A rights group says Interpol may be in breach of its constitution by pursuing critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2017-09-22
News of the visit comes amid reports that China's President Xi Jinping will cut off financial support to the isolated Stalinist state.
2017-09-22
The veteran dissident, who has said he expects never to be genuinely free, believes the added security is linked to the ruling Chinese Communist Party congress next month.
2017-09-21
Wang's status remains unknown, while her husband's defense attorney is taken away from the courtroom after a hasty trial.
2017-09-21
Zhu Shengwu loses his license to practice law after he defended a man jailed for calling the country's president 'Steamed Buns Xi.'
2017-09-21
One commentator loses his job, while another is forced to relocate back to his hometown, away from his life in another city.
2017-09-20
The wholesale market is the latest to be closed in a bid to curb the migrant population and 'low-end' businesses.
2017-09-20
President Xi Jinping's bid to eradicate critical voices and use corruption probes as a political weapon comes ahead of an expected reshuffle at the 19th Party Congress.
2017-09-19
Academics who post "red essays" online backing up the current line of the ruling Chinese Communist Party will receive higher scores in assessments of research excellence.
2017-09-18
The move appears aimed at silencing Mo Shaoping ahead of an important Communist Party congress, one source says.
2017-09-18
Critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party say they are being targeted for surveillance and monitoring ahead of a major political meeting next month.
2017-09-18
Pan-democratic politicians say Zhang Xiaoming's promotion is a harbinger of worsening relations with Beijing's central government.
2017-09-15
A spike in cardiorespiratory deaths to the north of China's Huai River indicates that the cause of the shorter life expectancy can only be air pollution.
2017-09-15
Local officials say the area is at high risk of landslides and rockfalls, citing North Korea's Sept. 3 nuclear test as a contributing factor.
2017-09-14
Strict new rules directly link alleged threats to state security with religious activity, making believers vulnerable, campaign groups say.
2017-09-13
The group wants U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze any assets and deny visas to police chiefs in charge at the time of Cao Shunli's death in detention.
2017-09-13
Zhu Shengwu may lose his license to practice law after he defended a man jailed for calling the country's president 'Steamed Buns Xi'.
2017-09-12
The protests are likened to Mao-era political 'struggle sessions,' while university officials say they won't be influenced by such calls.
2017-09-12
Lee Ching-yu had booked a room at her hotel to use for a news conference, but was ejected from the venue and prevented from holding it outside.
2017-09-11
Taiwan activist Lee Ming-cheh is the first person to be tried under a draconian new law governing foreign non-government organizations operating in mainland China.
2017-09-08
Zhen Jianghua is the latest to be taken away on suspicion of 'subversion' for helping others evade censorship online.
