Story Archive
2018-08-31
Jilin University announces a "buddy" system in which applicants are required to be politically educated in the ruling party's official view.
2018-08-30
Married couple Yang Chong and Wu Yuhua were involved in a press freedom protest, and had supported disappeared rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
2018-08-30
Activists say it is unacceptable for the company to be collaborating with the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
2018-08-30
Yan Lianke said foreign leaders seem far more concerned with economic ties than holding the ruling Chinese Communist Party to account.
2018-08-29
A new set of disciplinary rules also threatens party members who don't 'consciously support' President Xi Jinping.
2018-08-29
The move is part of a nationwide campaign by the ruling Chinese Communist Party for the 'patriotic education' of religious believers.
2018-08-28
At the same time, the state propaganda machine is mobilized to blame 'overseas organizations' for fomenting the labor movement in Shenzhen.
2018-08-28
The move comes as the government points to 'dangers ... in other places,' in an apparent reference to neighboring Hong Kong.
2018-08-27
State security police detained and interrogated members of Demosisto on trips to mainland China in March and August this year.
2018-08-27
PEN America says police attempts to silence Hui Muslim poet An Ran is a bid to stifle public awareness of the mass detention program in Xinjiang.
2018-08-27
Didi Chuxing's Hitch app is shut down after the murder of a woman for the second time this year.
2018-08-24
Police take away dozens of students and workers from Jasic Technology who campaigned for an independent labor union.
2018-08-24
Politicians say the wording of history sections in school textbooks is being slowly altered to suit Beijing's version of events.
2018-08-23
Parents have converged on Beijing to call for new laws and compensation for children left seriously ill by faulty vaccines.
2018-08-23
Megha Rajagopalan won an award for her reporting on the mass detention of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang camps, and the Chinese surveillance state.
2018-08-22
Tsai Ing-wen says China's growing projection of its power around the world is a threat to global stability.
2018-08-22
The poll results reflect dissatisfaction under ever-tightening political controls wielded in Hong Kong by Beijing, commentators say.
2018-08-21
Police departments across the country are putting in orders for devices that suck up personal data from apps and files on people's phones.
2018-08-21
Protesters in Hong Kong demand to know the whereabouts of disappeared Maoist activist Shen Mengyu, who helped workers in their bid for an independent trade union.
2018-08-20
Cui Haoxin, also known by his pen-name An Ran, was warned off using his Twitter account to speak out about mass detentions of Muslims in China.
2018-08-20
Analysts say the offer of state education and residency rights masks the Communist Party's political aims.
2018-08-17
Campaigners say they will continue to petition the authorities for recognition that their children were harmed by substandard vaccines, and for adequate compensation.
2018-08-17
Taiwan's defense ministry says it is entirely capable of defending itself, pointing to increased military spending.
2018-08-16
Chen is accused of "fraud" and running an "illegal business," but supporters say he angered powerful officials with his reporting.
2018-08-16
Yu Wensheng's indictment was issued last month, but his family wasn't informed, amid a dispute over the validity of his defense team.
2018-08-15
The abbot of Longquan Temple in Beijing steps down after allegations of repeated sexual assaults and harassment of his female followers.
2018-08-15
The move comes amid an ongoing row over freedom of expression and political calls for independence in the former British colony of Hong Kong.
2018-08-14
Sun Wenguang says an online post, including photograph, claiming the couple went on vacation was 'fake.'
2018-08-14
The Hong Kong government calls Chan Ho-tin's speech to the Foreign Correspondents' Club ‘inappropriate and unacceptable.’
2018-08-14
Ge Jueping is awaiting trial for "subversion" after supporting a victim of forced evictions in Suzhou.
