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Macau bans Tiananmen vigil, citing 'subversion' risk
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
Like neighbouring Hong Kong, Macau is a former colony and a semi-autonomous Chinese city granted certain freedoms unseen on the authoritarian mainland. Chinese ...
Lithuania quits 'divisive' China cooperation group
May 22, 2021 (AFP)
A member of the group since 2012, the Baltic country urged fellow EU members to also leave amid deteriorating ties between the 27-member bloc and China. "Lithua...
US House speaker calls for 'diplomatic boycott' of Beijing Olympics
May 18, 2021 (AFP)
"We cannot proceed as if nothing is wrong about the Olympics going to China," Pelosi told a joint hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the Cong...
Pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper halts shares after asset freeze
May 17, 2021 (AFP)
Next Digital Limited -- which publishes the Apple Daily newspaper -- said it would halt trading "pending the release of an announcement" about Lai's frozen asse...
Taiwan warns Jimmy Lai asset freeze signals new Hong Kong risk
May 15, 2021 (AFP)
The warning came in response to Hong Kong freezing billionaire pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai's assets, including shares in his media publications, for allegedl...
China says US trampling on right of athletes to compete in Winter Games
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
The run-up to the Games, due to be held early 2022 in Beijing, is being dominated by politics. Human rights groups and some US politicians have urged a boycott,...
US business group warns 42 percent of members plan Hong Kong exit
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
China blanketed Hong Kong in a broad security law last year to snuff out dissent after months of huge and often violent democracy protests. The American Chamber...
Hong Kong approves China loyalty laws; as more foreign firm eye exit plan
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
The new laws are part of sweeping changes that Beijing has ordered for Hong Kong's already limited electoral system which will dramatically reduce the number of...
Meet China's elderly influencers cashing in on the internet
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
Two years ago she joined the "Fashion Grandmas", whose one-minute clips and livestreams of them turning Beijing's streets into a catwalk are devoured by million...
In China's 'Red Holy Land', tourists mark Communist Party centenary
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
The ruling party, which celebrates the 100th year of its founding in Shanghai this July, has launched a propaganda blitz lauding its achievements over the past ...
Chinese TV authorities move to curb obsessive fan culture
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
Modelled after similar programmes in Korea and Japan, boyband reality shows such as "Produce Camp 2021" and "Youth With You" have become viral sensations in Chi...
Fosun Pharma unit to form tie-up with BioNTech for vaccine doses
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Industry Development will contribute up to $100 million in assets including cash and a manufacturing facility, capable of producin...
Hong Kong's Joshua Wong handed extra jail time for Tiananmen vigil
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
Hong Kong has regularly marked the anniversary of Beijing's deadly 1989 repression of protests in Tiananmen Square with huge candlelight vigils. But last year's...
Chinese university campus plan meets resistance in Budapest
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
"They want to plant a giga-university without anyone here agreeing to it," Baranyi, a combative independent politician, told AFP at the windswept former industr...
Kissinger warns of 'colossal' dangers in US-China tensions
Apr 30, 2021 (AFP)
The 97-year-old former US secretary of state, who as an advisor to president Richard Nixon crafted the 1971 unfreezing of relations between Washington and Beiji...
Hong Kong passes immigration bill with 'exit ban' powers
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
The legislation sailed through a legislature now devoid of opposition as Beijing seeks to quash dissent and make the semi-autonomous city more like the authorit...
'Blind box' craze grips China's youth and mints toymakers a fortune
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
The 18-year-old music student is one of the legions of young Chinese hooked on snaffling up the toys -- from pop art-inspired figurines to mini-archaeological t...
'Nomadland' wins big at pandemic Oscars as Zhao makes history
Apr 26, 2021 (AFP)
Zhao's drama about marginalized Americans roaming the West in vans was honored for best picture, director and actress for Frances McDormand, who now is in elite...
Russian man 'trapped' on Chinese reality TV show finally voted out
Apr 26, 2021 (AFP)
Vladislav Ivanov, a 27-year-old from Vladivostok, was kicked out of the Produce Camp 2021 on Saturday, after viewers ignored his pleas to leave and backed him a...
China censors Oscars success of history-making Chloe Zhao
Apr 26, 2021 (AFP)
Zhao on Sunday night became the second woman ever to win the coveted award at the LA ceremony, as her film "Nomadland" -- about marginalised Americans roaming t...
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