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China probes top executive of auto giant FAW: watchdog
Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)
China is investigating the top executive of one of the country's biggest automakers FAW, the Communist Party's corruption watchdog said, as a prolonged graft cr...
China detained nearly 1,000 rights defenders in 2014: group
Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese authorities detained nearly 1,000 human rights defenders in 2014, an advocacy group said Monday, accusing President Xi Jinping's government of setting C...
China considering one-child policy changes: premier
Mar 15, 2015 (AFP)
China is considering further changes to its family planning laws, Premier Li Keqiang said Sunday, after a relaxation in the "one child policy" failed to see sig...
Former Tibetan nun recalls 'jail torture' at Paris march
Mar 14, 2015 (AFP)
Gyaltsen Drolkar spent 12 years in a Chinese jail where she says she was relentlessly tortured, escaping after her release in an arduous trek across the Himalay...
Exiled Tibet leader compares China to N.Korea, apartheid S.Africa
Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)
The leader of Tibet's exiled government on Thursday compared China to the regimes of North Korea and apartheid South Africa when it came to Beijing's iron-fiste...
Doubts over China prisoner organ harvesting ban
Mar 10, 2015 (AFP)
China has banned the harvesting of transplant organs from executed prisoners, a senior official said, but international medical practitioners warn that inmates'...
Protests mark Tibet Uprising Day in India, Nepal
Mar 10, 2015 (AFP)
Baton-wielding riot police Tuesday hauled Tibetan protesters into waiting buses after they tried to storm the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on the anniversary of...
Tibetan woman self-immolates in China: reports
Mar 09, 2015 (AFP)
A Tibetan woman burned herself to death days before the anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule, a rights group and media said, in the first such ...
China detains feminists ahead of Women's Day
Mar 07, 2015 (AFP)
At least four Chinese feminists have been detained ahead of International Women's Day, a lawyer said Saturday, in what appears to be a move by Beijing to head o...
China's leaders meet with 'rule of law' on agenda
Mar 02, 2015 (AFP)
When Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to "safeguard the rights of people in line with law" in his New Year address, Xu Liangju was in a cell for seeking gov...
New media, New China: Xinhua relaunch on barred networks
Mar 02, 2015 (AFP)
China's official news agency Xinhua has re-launched its English-language presence on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, it announced -- all of which are blocked in ...
Hong Kong police arrest 33 after anti-mainland march
Mar 01, 2015 (AFP)
Hong Kong police arrested 33 people and fired pepper spray during clashes with demonstrators that disrupted traffic Sunday, as a protest at the rising number of...
China official jailed for 17 years over jade bribes
Feb 28, 2015 (AFP)
A former senior Chinese provincial official was sentenced Saturday to 17 years in jail for taking around 13 million yuan ($2.1 million) in bribes consisting lar...
China removes 'thoughts' from terror definition: reports
Feb 26, 2015 (AFP)
Thoughts will not be subject to prosecution under China's new definition of terrorism, state-run media said Thursday. A panel of China's rubber-stamp legislatur...
Missing, presumed dead: underground Chinese bishop, aged 93
Feb 25, 2015 (AFP)
In a living room plastered with pious images, the Shi family flicked through timeworn pictures of a wizened man with tortoiseshell glasses and bright eyes, the ...
China fines 81-year-old writer Tie Liu: lawyer
Feb 25, 2015 (AFP)
A Chinese court sentenced an octogenarian critic of the Communist Party and his assistant to suspended prison terms and fines Wednesday, one of their lawyers sa...
China to put 81-year-old writer on trial: lawyer
Feb 24, 2015 (AFP)
An octogenarian Chinese writer who has spent more than two decades in labour camps will be put on trial Wednesday, his lawyer said, as part of Beijing's crackdo...
Hong Kong mulls restrictions on Chinese tourists
Feb 24, 2015 (AFP)
Hong Kong's leader said Tuesday that the government is looking to restrict the number of Chinese tourists entering the city, following a public backlash over th...
Hong Kong wishing tree draws tens of thousands of hopefuls
Feb 21, 2015 (AFP)
Carnivals and fireworks are Hong Kong's trademark Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations -- but tens of thousands of people also travel to a remote village to hurl...
China man gets $189,000 for six years on death row
Feb 17, 2015 (AFP)
A Chinese man who was freed after six years on death row following a wrongful murder conviction was paid $189,000 in compensation, state media said Tuesday, ami...
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