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'Not quite a religion': China's Communist Party attracts new devotees
Jun 25, 2021 (AFP)
As the ruling body celebrates its 100th birthday on July 1, current members describe an increasingly cult-like atmosphere under leader Xi Jinping, propagandisin...
Luxury in the clouds: Shanghai opens world's highest hotel
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
Elevators whizz guests up the intimidating spiral-like skyscraper at ear-popping speeds of 18 metres per second to the J Hotel's 165 opulent rooms. The hotel oc...
No jury for first Hong Kong 'national security' trial as columnist arrested
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
The opening of the closely-watched court case came as police also arrested a senior columnist from the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily under the same law. C...
Curtain falls on Hong Kong tabloid that dared to challenge China
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Its 26 year reign is now at an end. Over the last week, Apple Daily's journalism was declared a threat to China's national security by Hong Kong authorities and...
No jury as Hong Kong's first 'national security' trial begins
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Tong Ying-kit, 24, was arrested the day after the sweeping new law came into effect when he allegedly drove his motorcycle into a group of police officers durin...
Hong Kong police arrest top Apple Daily columnist on security charge
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Police said a 55-year-old man was arrested "on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security". A police source told AFP the arrested ...
Grave concerns raised about China at UN rights council
Jun 22, 2021 (AFP)
The widely anticipated joint statement had been in the pipeline for several days and was delivered on day two of the 47th session of the council in Geneva. "We ...
The scholar speaking out on China's crackdown on intellectuals
Jun 20, 2021 (AFP)
Wu Qiang, 50, once had an enviable career as political science lecturer at the elite Tsinghua University. But he was dismissed in 2015 after conducting fieldwor...
'Listen to the party': Commands China's ruler
Jun 18, 2021 (AFP)
The world's second-largest economy has been lauding its achievements in the weeks leading up to July 1, which marks the centenary of the party's founding in Sha...
Herders to hoteliers: China lures millions of tourists to Tibet
Jun 15, 2021 (AFP)
Surrounded by mist-covered mountains, nearly 500 kilometres (300 miles) from the capital Lhasa and close to a disputed border with India, most of the houses in ...
Beijing accuses NATO of exaggerating 'China threat theory'
Jun 15, 2021 (AFP)
NATO leaders made the commitment on Monday, as US President Joe Biden renewed Washington's transatlantic ties at his first summit with the allies. In a broad st...
Chinese minorities targeted in organ harvesting: UN rights experts
Jun 14, 2021 (AFP)
The 12 independent experts, who are mandated by the United Nations but do not speak on its behalf, said in a statement they were "extremely alarmed" by the alle...
Hong Kong to censor films for national security breaches
Jun 11, 2021 (AFP)
Authorities in semi-autonomous Hong Kong have embarked on a sweeping crackdown to root out Beijing's critics after huge and often violent democracy protests con...
Chinese military intelligence aircraft seen over islands in South China Sea
Jun 10, 2021 (UPI)
A news release by the Royal Malaysian Air Force stated that 16 aircraft from the People's Liberation Army Air Force approached Malaysia's coast in tactical form...
China passes anti-foreign sanctions law
Jun 10, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing has accused the United States of "suppressing" Chinese firms and issued veiled threats of retaliation after President Joe Biden last week expanded a bla...
Hungary PM bows to referendum on China university project
Jun 10, 2021 (AFP)
About 10,000 people marched through Budapest on Saturday to protest the proposed sprawling Fudan university campus in the Hungarian capital, which is planned fo...
Chinese students take crucial 'gaokao' exams in Covid isolation
Jun 09, 2021 (AFP)
Guangdong, a populous province bordering Hong Kong, has reported dozens of Covid-19 cases in recent days, prompting authorities to impose travel curbs and mass ...
Chinese police squash rare campus protests after merger plan
Jun 08, 2021 (AFP)
Large-scale protests are extremely rare in China, as the Communist Party controls mass movements that may undermine social stability and quickly extinguishes in...
China blocks app's social media after post on Tiananmen anniversary
Jun 07, 2021 (AFP)
The Weibo page of Xiaohongshu, a Pinterest-like platform where users share travel and shopping tips, published a post on June 4 saying, "Tell me loudly, today's...
Hungarians protest PM Orban's Chinese university plan
Jun 05, 2021 (AFP)
Around 10,000 people, according to an AFP photographer, marched through the Hungarian capital to protest the proposed Fudan university campus which is planned f...
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