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Chinese writer faces backlash for 'Wuhan Diary'
Apr 22, 2020 (AFP)
Her journal drew tens of millions of readers -- but now that it is about to be published abroad in several languages, she is facing a nationalist backlash at ho...
US urges China to lift restrictions on rights lawyer
Apr 20, 2020 (AFP)
Wang, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, was released this month after nearly five years in prison but was not immediately allowed t...
Hong Kong activists arrested over last year's democracy rallies
Apr 18, 2020 (AFP)
Among those targeted was 72-year-old media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of anti-establishment newspaper Apple Daily, who was arrested at his home. The group also i...
China censorship fuels virus revival risk: rights watchdog
Apr 16, 2020 (AFP)
Meanwhile the "culture of denialism" among the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Brazil was costing lives, HRW executive director Kenneth Roth told repor...
McDonald's apologises after China store bans black people
Apr 14, 2020 (AFP)
Tensions have flared between police and Africans in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou after local officials announced a cluster of COVID-19 cases in a neighb...
Fearful of virus return, Beijing turns into virtual fortress
Apr 14, 2020 (AFP)
After largely getting the outbreak under control, China has banned foreigners from entering the country as authorities fret over an increase in cases imported f...
Rising unemployment from virus fight threatens China's poverty targets
Apr 12, 2020 (AFP)
Beijing has been working to fire up the economy again after bringing it to a near standstill to curb the spread of COVID-19, but many firms have had a bumpy res...
China vows improvements for Africans after virus discrimination claims
Apr 12, 2020 (AFP)
Africans in the industrial centre of 15 million say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coro...
Wuhan virus lockdown over, but lingering fears slow recovery
Apr 09, 2020 (AFP)
Wuhan is waking from its coronavirus nightmare, loosening tight restrictions on movement and business as the global pandemic's launchpad tries to move on. But f...
Wuhan opens, sparking hope despite rising global deaths and economic pain
Apr 08, 2020 (AFP)
As Wuhan reawakens, Western countries remain in the throes of a crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 80,000 people worldwide and forced around half of...
Chinese property tycoon and Xi critic under investigation
Apr 08, 2020 (AFP)
The Beijing Commission for Discipline Inspection announced late on Tuesday that the 69-year-old former chairman of the state-owned real estate developer Beijing...
Exodus begins as virus-hit Wuhan lifts ban on outbound travel
Apr 07, 2020 (AFP)
As the ban expired on schedule at midnight (1600 GMT Tuesday), passengers -- many in hazmat suits -- expressed joy and relief as they filed into Wuhan's Wuchang...
China rights lawyer released after five years in jail
Apr 05, 2020 (AFP)
Wang Quanzhang, 44, was first detained in 2015 in a sweeping crackdown on more than 200 lawyers and government critics in China as President Xi Jinping tightene...
Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home
Apr 03, 2020 (AFP)
The number of officially reported cases in China has dwindled dramatically over the last month, but the country is now taking drastic steps to try and stem a se...
Activists slam China's use of bear bile in virus treatment
Apr 02, 2020 (AFP)
The move comes just weeks after China banned the sale of wild animals for food, citing the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans. But the National H...
Angry Wuhan next-of-kin seek answers over virus handling
Apr 02, 2020 (AFP)
Devastated and angry, Zhang is now demanding answers from a government that he accuses of incompetence and lying about the extent of the virus. He is not alone....
'I feel nothing': virus-stricken Wuhan buries its dead
Mar 31, 2020 (AFP)
At the Biandanshan Cemetery, downcast groups of masked residents filed quietly past hazmat-suit-wearing security personnel and police on Tuesday to lay friends ...
Virus puts Hong Kong's 'McRefugees' back on streets
Mar 27, 2020 (AFP)
The 37-year-old is one of the city's so-called "McRefugees", a small community of homeless and rough sleepers who use the fast food chain as a shelter. McDonald...
Beijing says Chinese professor confessed to spying
Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)
Yuan Keqin was investigated on suspicion of espionage and had "confessed to the facts of the crime", ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a regular press brie...
Hong Kong politican arrested for 'sedition' over Facebook post
Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)
Police said they arrested 60-year-old Cheng Lai-king on suspicion of "action with seditious intention". "Someone posted speech that advocates violence and incit...
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