Story Archive
2020-06-02
The retired doctor disappeared days after her sister spoke out against abuses in Xinjiang.
2020-06-02
Manila says it is holding off for six months its plan to pull out of the 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement.
2020-06-02
Le Dinh Chuc, son of slain Dong Tam village elder Le Dinh Kinh, is recovering from injuries suffered in the Jan. 9 police assault, his lawyer says.
2020-06-02
Chief executive Carrie Lam says Hong Kong will retain its freedoms, but an opinion poll shows many residents think its special status is a thing of the past.
2020-06-02
Hu Weifeng, a colleague of whistleblower Li Wenliang, is the sixth doctor to die of the virus at Wuhan Central Hospital.
2020-06-02
Some keyboard warriors go too far even for Beijing, which shut a site spreading “anti-intellectualism.”
2020-06-01
With few orders due to COVID-19, company offers financial support for workers only through the end of June.
2020-06-01
The pro-army Union Solidary Development Party and unelected military MPs say the speaker violated the constitution.
2020-06-01
Under Xi Jinping, China's diplomats have abandoned charm for an aggressive approach called "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy, with envoys taking to Twitter to insult their host countries or threaten trade war against governments that criticize China. Named after a 2017 action blockbuster featuring a Chinese Rambo shooting up foreign bad guys in Africa, the pugnacious diplomacy has been directed at countries as distinct as Sweden, Venezuela and India -- and appears to be getting the same reviews as the movie. Wolf Warrior won awards inside China, but foreign critics cringed at what they described as "heavy-handed flag-waving," "jingoistic jubilance," and "unintentionally amusing" dialog.
2020-06-01
Veteran rights activist Xiao Yuhui is detained in Guangdong, while outspoken poet Wang Zang faces charges in Yunnan.
2020-06-01
The city's police ban an annual candlelight vigil to commemorate the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre by the People's Liberation Army.
