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New fears for press freedoms as Hong Kong editor sacked
Apr 20, 2016 (AFP)
The sacking of a respected Hong Kong newspaper editor triggered a furious backlash from journalists and pro-democracy campaigners Wednesday, in what was seen as...
China sets death penalty threshold in graft cases
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
Corruption cases involving three million yuan ($463,000) or more may incur the death penalty in future, Chinese authorities ruled Monday, signalling that offici...
Twitter's new China head wants to 'work together' with state media
Apr 18, 2016 (AFP)
The new head of Twitter in China has called for "closer partnership" with Communist Party-backed state media, leading many of the social network's users to ques...
More Western art on shopping list for Chinese tycoon Liu
Apr 15, 2016 (AFP)
He first stunned the auction world by snapping up hugely expensive Chinese antiquities, but now taxi driver turned tycoon Liu Yiqian is targeting Western master...
China revokes rights lawyer's licence over criminal conviction
Apr 14, 2016 (AFP)
Authorities have revoked the licence of one of China's most celebrated human rights lawyers, he confirmed Thursday, in the latest move to suppress critics of th...
World's first Tiananmen museum to close doors in Hong Kong
Apr 13, 2016 (AFP)
The world's first museum dedicated to China's Tiananmen Square crackdown is to close its doors in Hong Kong, with organisers saying they believe they are being ...
Missing Hong Kong bookseller case unfortunate: China official
Apr 12, 2016 (AFP)
The case of a bookseller who vanished from Hong Kong four months ago and mysteriously surfaced in mainland China was a "very unfortunate incident", a Beijing of...
Hong Kong pro-democracy protester stands trial
Apr 11, 2016 (AFP)
A Hong Kong pro-democracy protester who was allegedly beaten by police in an attack captured by television cameras and beamed around the world stood trial on Mo...
China jails activist who supported Hong Kong protests
Apr 08, 2016 (AFP)
China on Friday sentenced an activist who supported pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong to four and a half years in jail, his lawyer told AFP as President Xi Ji...
Outrage over on-camera abduction attempt in China
Apr 07, 2016 (AFP)
The choking, assault and attempted kidnapping of a Chinese woman at a Beijing hotel in full view of security cameras and multiple passers-by has sparked a socia...
Hong Kong student leader Wong says HSBC blocked new accounts
Apr 06, 2016 (AFP)
Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong accused HSBC of "political censorship" Wednesday after the bank rejected his application for a joint account for his new pa...
Former top Chinese military leader confesses to graft: Xinhua
Apr 05, 2016 (AFP)
Former top Chinese military leader Guo Boxiong has confessed to bribe-taking, the official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday, citing military prosecutors who ...
What's in a name? China paper blasts foreign nomenclature
Apr 05, 2016 (AFP)
For many aspiring Chinese, living in a chateau would be a dream come true. But bourgeois apartments with foreign names are the latest victims of a wide-ranging ...
Panama Papers: Family of China's President Xi implicated
Apr 04, 2016 (AFP)
The families of some of China's top communist brass -- including President Xi Jinping -- used offshore tax havens to conceal their fortunes, a treasure trove of...
Controversial Hong Kong movie wins 'Best Film' award
Apr 03, 2016 (AFP)
A controversial movie about the future of Hong Kong won the top prize at the city's film awards Sunday, after being a local box office hit but antagonising Beij...
April Fools is no joke: Xinhua
Apr 01, 2016 (AFP)
April Fools is no laughing matter, China's official news service intoned Friday, saying the Western tradition of opening spring with a gag was un-Chinese. The o...
Eyes of the beholder: beauty varies for China models
Mar 31, 2016 (AFP)
Tall and stereotypically thin, Chinese fashion model Xu Naiyu exudes a happy optimism but is matter-of-factly realistic about the fickleness of her chosen caree...
China journalist speaks out after state secrets conviction
Mar 31, 2016 (AFP)
A 72-year-old Chinese journalist jailed for "leaking state secrets" in a case that drew international condemnation spoke out for the first time on Thursday sinc...
China rights lawyer condemns ban on her receiving US award
Mar 31, 2016 (AFP)
China prevented a human rights lawyer from travelling to the United States to receive an award for her work, she told AFP Thursday as she condemned the restrict...
China jails ally of former security czar: Xinhua
Mar 30, 2016 (AFP)
An ally of China's jailed former security chief Zhou Yongkang was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for corruption, state media said. Ji Wenlin, former ...
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