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Campaigners welcome China release for five feminist activists
Apr 14, 2015 (AFP)
Campaigners on Tuesday welcomed China's release of five feminist activists held for more than a month, saying the surprise move after an international outcry sh...
Top China official confesses to graft
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
China's former state assets chief Jiang Jiemin -- one of the highest-profile casualties of the country's anti-graft drive and an ally of ex-security chief Zhou ...
China releases three detained feminist activists: lawyer
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese police on Monday released at least three of five feminist activists detained for over a month in a case which prompted an international diplomatic outcr...
Beijing limits visits by mainland Chinese to Hong Kong
Apr 13, 2015 (AFP)
Beijing has scrapped unlimited entry to Hong Kong for mainland Chinese visitors whose voracious shopping for everything from baby milk powder to iPhones has emp...
Parents in last minute plea for release of China feminists
Apr 12, 2015 (AFP)
The parents of five Chinese feminists detained for more than a month have issued an eleventh-hour plea to authorities for their release, as a lawyer for the act...
China to 'blacklist' its unruly tourists: report
Apr 12, 2015 (AFP)
China will create a "blacklist" of its tourists who behave badly overseas, state-media reported, after several embarrassing incidents involving Chinese travelli...
Tibetan nun burns herself to death in China: reports
Apr 11, 2015 (AFP)
A Tibetan nun is believed to have died after setting herself on fire to protest China's rule over the Himalayan region and to voice support for the Dalai Lama, ...
China TV host suspended over insulting Mao
Apr 09, 2015 (AFP)
One of China's most famous television hosts has had his shows taken off air after allegedly insulting Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong, according to...
Let the red flag fly over Tibet monasteries: Communist chief
Apr 08, 2015 (AFP)
China's top official in Tibet vowed on Wednesday to evaluate Buddhist monks and nuns for their "patriotism" and install national flags in monasteries to strengt...
Former Chinese mayor 'Bulldozer Ji' given 15 years for graft
Apr 07, 2015 (AFP)
The former mayor of the Chinese city of Nanjing was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in jail for corruption, in the latest high-profile case under President Xi Jin...
Bonfire of the vanities? Chinese offerings go up in smoke
Apr 05, 2015 (AFP)
Gleaming gold watches and smartphones are piled high in a ramshackle Chinese farmhouse -- all replicas made of paper and designed to be incinerated, as 21st-cen...
Fashion victim: Chinese designers face struggle
Apr 03, 2015 (AFP)
A parade of unknowns on the catwalks of Beijing Fashion Week highlights the challenges facing Chinese designers trying to break into an industry dominated by fo...
China drives 66 golf courses into the rough
Mar 31, 2015 (AFP)
China's Communist rulers have turned against the exclusive sport of golf with the government saying nearly 70 "illegal" courses have been closed, seemingly enfo...
Three Chinese tourists killed in Thai bus crash
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
Three Chinese holidaymakers died and 17 were injured Wednesday in a bus crash on Thailand's southern tourist island of Phuket, a senior official said. The accid...
China eyes return of 'stolen' mummy: reports
Mar 23, 2015 (AFP)
A Chinese province is seeking the return of a 1,000-year-old mummified monk that experts say was stolen two decades ago and resurfaced at an exhibition in Hunga...
Tibetan survivors of self-immolations face brutal fate: rights group
Mar 20, 2015 (AFP)
Tibetans who set themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule face "extreme physical and psychological suffering" if they survive, a rights group said, allegin...
Chinese anti-censorship group says it's under attack
Mar 20, 2015 (AFP)
The Chinese activist group GreatFire, which operates websites that circumvent the country's censorship, said its online service has come under attack in an effo...
Will that be all, sir? Butler business booms in China
Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)
Hands sheathed in white gloves, Alvin Hu's dream of serving as butler to China's growing ranks of super-rich faced an unlikely challenge: a dinner plate piled h...
Man condemned to die for burning farmer to death in China
Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)
A Chinese court on Thursday condemned a man to die for burning a farmer to death and injuring three others in a land dispute last year. Wang Yuefu was asked by ...
Inspired by protests, Hong Kong's minorities fight back
Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)
When teenager Jianne Soriano joined Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests it was the first time she felt she belonged in the city where she was born -- now she is ...
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