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Verdicts loom for Hong Kong student leader Wong
May 13, 2016 (AFP)
Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong was in court Friday for the last day of a trial over pro-democracy protests, as he faces two imminent verdicts and a possib...
Former Chinese presidential top aide charged with bribery
May 13, 2016 (AFP)
An ex-aide of former Chinese president Hu Jintao has been charged with accepting bribes and illegally obtaining state secrets, prosecutors said on Friday, sugge...
Five questions about China's Cultural Revolution
May 12, 2016 (AFP)
May 16 marks 50 years since the declaration of China's Cultural Revolution, a decade that plunged the country into chaos, leaving millions dead and transforming...
'Flesh banquets' of China's Cultural Revolution remain unspoken, 50 years on
May 11, 2016 (AFP)
At the height of the frenzy of China's Cultural Revolution, victims were eaten at macabre "flesh banquets", but 50 years after the turmoil began, the Communist ...
China court jails pro-democracy activists: lawyer
May 10, 2016 (AFP)
A Chinese court has jailed two activists for taking part in small-scale pro-democracy protests after detaining them for nearly three years, their lawyer said Tu...
China sends more anti-graft inspectors into military
May 06, 2016 (AFP)
China has sent a new wave of inspectors into its military to crack down on corruption, state media said Friday, as Communist chief Xi Jinping seeks to impose hi...
China slams UN criticism of controls on foreign NGOs
May 04, 2016 (AFP)
China on Wednesday denounced United Nations criticism of its new law on foreign NGOs as "prejudiced and unfounded allegations", demanding that the statement be ...
Hong Kong independence 'inevitable' says campaign leader
May 03, 2016 (AFP)
For the majority of Hong Kongers, the notion of breaking away from mainland China is far-fetched -- but pro-independence leader Andy Chan insists it can become ...
China to release last Tiananmen prisoner: activists
May 03, 2016 (AFP)
China plans to release the last prisoner known to be held in connection with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests after nearly three decades in jail, a US-based h...
Hundreds protest over sacking of Hong Kong editor
May 02, 2016 (AFP)
Hundreds of protesters gathered Monday outside the headquarters of a Hong Kong newspaper where a respected editor was recently sacked after publishing a front-p...
China's ruling party disciplines tycoon who questioned its power
May 02, 2016 (AFP)
China's ruling Communist Party has disciplined an outspoken property tycoon who criticised its tightening grip on the media, it was announced Monday. Ren Zhiqia...
First rites: China's Orthodox Christians see Easter resurrection
May 01, 2016 (AFP)
His red and gold vestments bathed in candlelight, the first mainland Chinese Orthodox priest ordained for six decades led an Easter service on Sunday -- one of ...
Xi move on faction suggests China elite struggle
Apr 29, 2016 (AFP)
Allies of Chinese President Xi Jinping are moving against a Communist organisation that is the power base of Premier Li Keqiang, in what analysts say may be a s...
Hong Kong's working poor choose streets over dismal housing
Apr 29, 2016 (AFP)
A plastic sheet, a blanket, a sleeping bag: a makeshift bed laid out in the shadow of towering apartment blocks by a man who would rather be homeless than coope...
Chinese dissident says India cancels visa
Apr 28, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese dissident Lu Jinghua said Thursday New Delhi cancelled her visa to travel to India to meet the Dalai Lama, just days after another Chinese activist was ...
China imposes controversial controls on foreign NGOs
Apr 28, 2016 (AFP)
China's Communist-controlled legislature passed a controversial law Thursday imposing new restrictions on foreign non-governmental organisations -- a measure me...
Exiled Tibetans reelect Lobsang Sangay as leader
Apr 27, 2016 (AFP)
Exiled Tibetans have reelected Lobsang Sangay as their leader, the election commission said Wednesday, five years after the Dalai Lama ceded political power in ...
Back soon, says China money manager who disappeared
Apr 25, 2016 (AFP)
The head of a Chinese wealth management firm who allegedly fled with more than $150 million in investors' money surfaced in an online video on Monday saying he ...
China mulls tighter control of foreign charities: report
Apr 25, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese legislators are considering a new draft of a controversial law requiring foreign non-profit organisations to report activities to government agencies wh...
China's Xi stresses Communist leadership over religion
Apr 24, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese religious groups must obey the staunchly atheist ruling Communist Party, President Xi Jinping has told a key meeting on religion according to state medi...
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