Christians' Legal Appeals 'Denied'
2009-01-13
Courts in China have been instructed to reject appeals or complaints lodged against the authorities by members of unofficial "house churches," according to a ...
Female Suicides 'Linked to Status'
2009-01-12
Suicide is a leading cause of death for Chinese women, and China is the only country in which the suicide rate for females is higher than for males.
China's New Online Crackdown
2009-01-12
Chinese authorities say they have closed down 91 Web sites, targeting big-name search engines in the latest clampdown on "vulgar content."
China Questions Lawyers Over Charter
2009-01-09
In the latest in a string of detentions across China, three Beijing-based lawyers are taken in for questioning after they sign a document online calling for ...
Petitioners Target Chinese Congress
2009-01-07
Hundreds of ordinary Chinese with complaints against government officials are beginning protests against local branches of the People's Congress, or ...
Bird Flu Reported in Beijing
2009-01-07
Authorities in Beijing ban poultry from entering the capital from elsewhere in China following the death of a Fujian woman from the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
Party Interests 'Drive China'
2009-01-05
China's Communist Party drives the country's 1.3 billion people with scant regard for their welfare, and the country's nascent civil rights movement holds the ...
China 'in Political Dead End'
2009-01-03
Bao Tong, a former top Communist Party official, says China's political system has a disastrous lack of checks and balances, calling it a terrifying juggernaut.
China's Economy 'No Miracle'
2008-12-30
Far from steering China through 30 years of economic reform toward an economic miracle, a former top official says the Communist Party has greatly damaged the ...
China Tightens Press Controls for 2009
2008-12-29
China plans a new press campaign to strengthen the Communist Party's image in the coming year, while writings on Taiwan and other 'sensitive' topics will ...
A Pivotal Moment For China
2008-12-29
A former top Communist Party official looks back on a "uniquely lively" Party plenum, but says the real forces for change lay elsewhere. Part 2 in a series to ...
'Two Faces' of Deng Xiaoping
2008-12-29
Deng Xiaoping saw himself as a man set apart from the common herd, and his only aim was to save the Chinese Communist Party, according to a former top official.
Why China Had to Reform
2008-12-27
Former top Communist Party official Bao Tong examines the reasons behind the Communist Party's move toward economic reform, begun 30 years ago this month.
Media Ban on Charter Activists
2008-12-24
Signatories to Charter 08, a document which called recently for sweeping political change in China, will be barred from contributing articles to ...
Blogger Charged with Subversion
2008-12-22
Nanjing police inform the wife of Guo Quan, a blogger and political activist who tried to found an opposition party, that he has now been formally charged with ...