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Hong Kong leadership hopeful pledges to heal city's 'heartache'

Jan 16, 2017 (AFP)

Hong Kong's tough former deputy leader Carrie Lam, widely seen as China's favourite in an upcoming election for the top post, pledged Monday to end the divided ...

Hong Kong activists declare 'war' after appeal bid snub

Jan 16, 2017 (AFP)

An appeal bid by two anti-China lawmakers against their disqualification from Hong Kong's parliament was rejected Monday, as the activists declared "war" on the...

Hong Kong deputy announces leadership bid

Jan 12, 2017 (AFP)

Hong Kong's tough pro-Beijing number two Carrie Lam announced her bid to lead the deeply divided city Thursday after stepping down from her current post. Lam is...

Lessons in respect at China's Confucius kindergartens

Jan 12, 2017 (AFP)

Children in scholars hats bow before a statue of Confucius, the Chinese sage once reviled by Communist authorities but now enjoying a revival as parents look to...

Human rights in Hong Kong at worst level for 20 years

Jan 11, 2017 (AFP)

Human rights in Hong Kong are at their worst since it was handed back to China by Britain 20 years ago, activists said Wednesday, as Beijing stands accused of t...

Hong Kong's former leader abused power: prosecution

Jan 10, 2017 (AFP)

Hong Kong's former leader Donald Tsang abused power and was "hopelessly compromised" while in office, prosecutors said Tuesday in opening arguments at his high-...

China graft drive has punished 1.2 million: watchdog

Jan 10, 2017 (AFP)

Nearly 1.2 million people have been punished in China's ongoing anti-graft campaign, a senior official has said, promising that the government will double-down ...

China to punish two top anti-corruption officials: Xinhua

Jan 09, 2017 (AFP)

China's top anti-graft authority has punished two of its own senior officials for corruption and adopted new rules to supervise its investigators more strictly,...

Pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker condemns 'violent attacks'

Jan 09, 2017 (AFP)

Hong Kong pro-democracy legislator Nathan Law hit out Monday at "violent attacks" by pro-China protesters at the city's airport on his return from a political f...

Hong Kong rebel lawmakers met with protests in Taiwan

Jan 07, 2017 (AFP)

Pro-China protesters waving placards reading "Independence will get you nowhere" greeted Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and three rebel lawmakers ...

'Thousands' of pilgrims return to China before Dalai Lama event

Jan 04, 2017 (AFP)

Thousands of mostly Tibetan pilgrims who travelled to India for a rare Buddhist ceremony held by the Dalai Lama have returned to China under pressure from Beiji...

Chinese official sentenced 10 years in vaccine scandal

Jan 03, 2017 (AFP)

A former official of China's Food and Drug Administration has been jailed for taking bribes from vaccine manufacturers, reports said Tuesday, in a case with ech...

As thousands march China says Hong Kong must not subvert mainland

Jan 02, 2017 (AFP)

China warned Hong Kong it would not tolerate anyone using the city to damage mainland stability, Beijing's top official in the city said, as concerns rise over ...

Football and prayer wheels: views of modern Tibet

Jan 01, 2017 (AFP)

Faith has always been at the heart of Tibetan culture. As practitioners of the country's unique form of Buddhism face increasing obstacles to their worship, Bei...

Born again: baby boom after China ends one-child rule

Dec 29, 2016 (AFP)

As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son. Their efforts...

Hong Kong's ousted anti-China lawmakers make final appeal over ban

Dec 28, 2016 (AFP)

Two ousted pro-independence Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday announced they were making a final bid to overturn a controversial Beijing-linked ban preventing th...

Nine 'rebel' villagers jailed in China

Dec 27, 2016 (AFP)

Nine residents of the Chinese "rebel" village of Wukan have been jailed for "disrupting social order" after September protests against officials turned violent,...

Dalai Lama will not visit Mongolia again: govts

Dec 21, 2016 (AFP)

China said Wednesday it hoped Mongolia could "draw lessons" from the fallout over hosting the Dalai Lama after the Mongolian foreign minister announced that the...

Woman sues China public security bureau over propaganda video

Dec 19, 2016 (AFP)

The wife of a Chinese human rights lawyer said Monday she is suing the public security bureau for accusing her in an online propaganda video of fomenting "colou...

Huntington Ingalls delivers security cutter Munro to U.S. Coast Guard

Dec 19, 2016 (UPI)

Ingalls Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has delivered the National Security Cutter Munro to the U.S. Coast Guard. The event marks t...