Story Archive
2021-02-11
President Xi Jinping personally ordered suspension of IPO, report says.
2021-02-03
When the "June 4 incident" shocked the world 20 years ago, I was very young, so I just accepted the authorities' imperious interpretation of what I had seen and heard, as most other people habitually did, as "counter-revolutionary turmoil."
2021-02-01
In an interview with Dan Southerland on June 4, China scholar Perry Link—an expert on China’s language, culture, and popular literature—remembers the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, analyzes the student-led protest movement, and discusses the changes that have occurred in China over the last 20 years.
2020-11-30
The UK rolls out its residency scheme for holders of British National Overseas (BNO) passports.
2020-11-30
The Japanese government says it's up to the universities concerned to manage the potential export of sensitive technology to the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
2020-11-30
Pham Thanh, a dissident blogger charged with spreading 'information against the state,' has been moved from his detention camp to a mental hospital, his wife says.
2020-11-30
The Japanese government says it's up to the universities concerned to manage the potential export of sensitive technology to the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
2020-11-27
The authorities are constantly expanding restrictions on what Chinese citizens can do, see or say on line, experts say.
2020-11-27
Police in Shenzhen say they have finished their investigation, paving the way for a trial.
2020-11-26
Zhang Wuzhou stood trial this week by video-link on charges of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.'
2020-11-26
The next treason and incitement hearings in controversial case are set for January and March.
2020-11-25
Rakhine state is ready to vote after weeks of quiet in ethnic war, say authorities.
2020-11-25
Rhona Smith suggests such legal actions constitute a serious violation of due process.
2020-11-25
Residents of temporary relocation centers say they have not been paid living allowances for the past five months.
2020-11-25
Hoang Duc Binh, now serving a 14-year prison term for his role in environmental protests in 2016, says he was convicted unjustly and is not a criminal.
2020-11-25
The protesters are calling on Beijing to reverse its phasing out of Mongolian-medium teaching in the region's schools.
2020-11-25
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter had gone in 2017 to interview residents of a commune who had voted against Cambodia's ruling party five years before.
2020-11-25
Lam blames hostile foreign infiltrators for influencing the city's young people in a speech observers believe was written by the Chinese Communist Party.
2020-11-25
Many citizens who were of school age during the 1990s famine never learned to read.
2020-11-24
Three of Ahmet Bozoglan’s fellow Uyghur inmates are likely to face persecution after being repatriated.
2020-11-24
Ethnic political parties want more rights in the hands of the multiethnic country’s states and regions.
2020-11-24
Human Rights Watch says the pair are at serious risk of arbitrary detention and torture if sent home.
2020-11-24
US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien tells Philippine officials that Washington will help Manila defend its interests in the South China Sea.
2020-11-24
Tran Duch Thach, a co-founder of the online Brotherhood for Democracy, has been charged with 'activities aimed at overthrowing the state.'
2020-11-24
The Afterglow of Disappeared Lives
2020-11-24
The dissidents' families are under pressure from the authorities not to speak publicly about their loved ones.
2020-11-24
The US says it is deeply concerned, and calls the arrest of Wan Yiu-sing an assault on freedom.
2020-11-23
Woman lost her home after her daughter sold it out from under her and absconded with the proceeds.
2020-11-23
Htike Zaw was gunned down as he tended his grocery store, 13 days after winning a seat in Shan state.
2020-11-23
The large-scale entertainment complex will be built just south of the UNESCO Heritage site.
