Story Archive
2020-10-29
Chung is denied bail over charges that rights groups say are based on his peaceful use of social media.
2020-10-28
The authorities are using verbal pressure to force lawyers to stop representing detained activists who fled Hong Kong by speedboat.
2020-10-28
The student union says it is disappointed at the appointment of two Tsinghua University academics to vice president jobs.
2020-10-27
Chung was taken away from the vicinity of the US Consulate, where he had planned to seek political asylum.
2020-10-27
He Fangmei has been incommunicado, believed detained along with her disabled daughter since Oct. 6, after she splashed ink on a government building.
2020-10-26
But US ships shouldn't enter or operate in Manila's exclusive economic zone, the Philippines' defense secretary says.
2020-10-26
China’s coastguard and maritime militia are a semi-permanent fixture in the exclusive economic zones and near the claimed land features of its neighbors.
2020-10-26
Chinese fishing vessels bearing no tracking technology are depleting fish and squid stocks around the world, researchers say.
2020-10-26
Critics of the CCP are being taken out of town, with tight security around the Jingxi Hotel.
2020-10-23
Lau Phan, an electrical engineer, was killed in a robbery as he carried funds to pay his workers, in the fourth murder of a Chinese worker in Bangladesh since June 20, 2019.
2020-10-23
Matt Pottinger says Beijing should be called out for abuses, including those against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
2020-10-23
Former colleague Xu Zhangrun says Geng shouldn't be targeted because she expressed support for him during his detention.
2020-10-23
Funding from China is likely more widespread than many believe, with universities slow to respond to human rights concerns, experts say.
2020-10-23
Australian professor Feng Chongyi says Yang Hengjun told him he worked for the state security police for 10 years.
2020-10-22
Earlier this month, it said the 60 fishermen would be investigated for entering Malaysian waters without notice.
2020-10-22
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam had previously received data only during the rainy season, amid growing concerns over restricted water flows from Chinese dams upstream.
2020-10-22
Critics say the Holy See is selling out to the Chinese Communist Party, where religious persecution continues unabated.
2020-10-22
Tuo Zhen's promotion is linked to his willingness to purge liberal media outlets under general secretary Xi Jinping.
2020-10-22
Families are calling for international pressure on China to release the detainees, who include at least two minors and one Portuguese national.
2020-10-21
"The U.S. has to separate Xi and 'Xi’s gang' from the 90 million party members," says scholar Xai Xia.
2020-10-21
A trawl through publicly available information keeps turning up the same name: Shen Yong.
2020-10-21
The fight against authoritarian rule is now taking place among teachers, social workers, and lawyers, says a founder of the 2014 Occupy Central movement.
2020-10-20
"I believe the group of people around me all hope for the change of the system. We hope that constitutional democracy and liberal democracy can truly be realized."
2020-10-20
Wang Zang's wife Wang Li is sent to hospital after being arrested on the same charge as her husband.
2020-10-20
Many prominent figures are incommunicado, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party fires, detains, and 'retrains' anyone who disagrees with a new curriculum.
2020-10-19
Two people from the Chinese embassy scuffle with Taiwan officials at an event marking the democratic island's National Day.
2020-10-19
Rights groups call on Berlin to keep its promise to ease the path of asylum applicants from Hong Kong.
2020-10-19
Professor Anne-Marie Brady faces a disciplinary process following complaints over a paper exposing local institutions' China ties.
2020-10-17
However, Duterte’s decision to resume oil search in the South China Sea is unilateral, the energy secretary said.
2020-10-16
A Hong Kong protester who fled the city after the siege of the Polytechnic University says he has left his whole life behind.
