No New Year Celebration for Writers
2009-01-27
Chinese authorities have put one writer under house arrest and restricted the freedom of another amid continuing police investigations into Charter 08, a ...
China 'Strikes Hard' in Tibet
2009-01-26
Chinese authorities question thousands in a campaign that rights activists say is focused on finding participants in last year's Lhasa unrest.
Luoyang Teen's Death 'Unexplained'
2009-01-26
The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died in police custody has demanded an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death, as China's petitioners ...
Lunar New Year in Asia
2009-01-25
Chinese protest "propaganda" in traditional television gala as others head overseas in spite of months of bad news for the economy. In Vietnam, a province ...
China censors President Obama's speech
2009-01-22
Censors in China quickly halted state television's live broadcast of Barak Obama speech on January 21st local time when they heard references to communism and ...
Chinese Women Could Retire Later
2009-01-21
A proposed plan to increase China's mandatory retirement age for women has led to a fierce debate in the rapidly aging country.
Tibetans Plan ‘Subdued’ New Year
2009-01-16
A boycott is planned for Tibetan New Year celebrations as tensions build in the lead-up to the anniversary of two crushed movements against Chinese rule in the ...
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.