Story Archive
2016-11-22
Xie Dan is the latest to be targeted among several would-be election candidates in the city and across the country.
2016-11-21
Orders issued in Gulja are also being reported elsewhere in the region, as the government clamps down further on the ethnically troubled region.
2016-11-21
Family members say police have given them little information following the raid at a gathering in the city last week.
2016-11-18
WHO official reckons hundreds of thousands of people die from using antibiotics that are no longer effective against bacteria.
2016-11-18
Former teacher Wang Qingying said he had been tortured and mistreated while in the police-run detention center ahead of his trial in Guangdong.
2016-11-18
Chinese internet users who try to access overseas news sites are warned by new browser messages that they are entering a 'fraudulent website.'
2016-11-17
A trade and security commission also recommends banning Chinese state-owned companies from buying U.S. firms, citing security concerns.
2016-11-17
Beijing pastor Xu Yonghai says restrictions are far tighter on religious believers than they were a few years ago, and travel bans are on the rise.
2016-11-16
Yang Xiuzhu's return is trumpeted as a major triumph for President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign.
2016-11-16
The feature-length documentary about the Occupy Central movement had its planned Hong Kong premiere canceled by the Asia Society.
2016-11-15
The city's High Court says the newly elected pair are disqualified after making protest oaths at their swearing-in.
2016-11-15
The ruling Chinese Communist Party sends a stark warning to anyone else who may think of trying to oppose it.
2016-11-14
The authorities are trying to create an 'atmosphere of terror' to stop rights activists from standing for election.
2016-11-14
Young women are being fast-tracked into combat roles to boost the military's public image, sources say.
2016-11-11
If a court disqualifies eight members of the city's Legislative Council, it will among to 'nothing less than a coup,' a lawmaker warns.
2016-11-11
Chinese former vice security minister Meng Hongwei could mean Beijing now finds it much easier to pursue peaceful dissidents overseas, groups say.
2016-11-10
The head of the logistics company judged responsible for the Aug. 12, 2015 explosions is handed a suspended death sentence.
2016-11-10
The city's High Court has been asked to disqualify the members of its Legislative Council following a ruling from Beijing on oaths.
2016-11-09
The awards highlight the "great personal risks" taken by journalists and bloggers in the country to try to report the truth to their fellow citizens, the awarding body says.
2016-11-09
Rights activists say they would have favored Hillary Clinton's tougher stance on China.
2016-11-08
Another new law requires any films shown in China to be in line with 'socialist core values' and 'national dignity and honor.'
2016-11-08
Residents of Shandong's Peijiaying village ready for pitched battles over allegations of official corruption.
2016-11-07
Sixtus Leung and Yau Wai-ching are barred from taking up their seats in the Legislative Council after Beijing says they 'declined' to take oaths of allegiance.
2016-11-07
Constitutional scholar and former local-level lawmaker Yao Lifa 'disappears' after trying to register as an independent candidate.
2016-11-06
Thousands of people face off with police until the early hours of Monday as Beijing says an intervention over pro-independence lawmakers is 'timely and necessary.'
2016-11-04
The city's lawyers plan to march in silent protest at the decision, which they say undermines due legal process in the former British colony.
2016-11-04
Smog warnings are issued for Beijing, Tianjin, and other areas, as the government names and shames the worst-offending local governments.
2016-11-03
Meng Han is the only one of a number of labor activists to be sent to jail following a crackdown last December.
2016-11-03
Many fear Beijing may step in and issue a decree before the court has chance to rule on the status of two pro-independence lawmakers.
2016-11-02
Protesters take to the streets, while an invasion by two banned pro-independence lawmakers once again brings the city's legislature to a halt.
