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China sentences Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai to 10 years' jail
Feb 25, 2020 (AFP)
Gui, one of five Hong Kong-based booksellers known for publishing salacious titles about China's political leaders, was snatched by authorities while on a train...
Virus delivers blow to Hong Kong protests but rage remains
Feb 25, 2020 (AFP)
"A lot of us, especially frontliners, need a little bit of a break," said the high-school student, who is hunkering down in his tiny apartment doing school work...
Xi says China facing 'big test' with virus, global impact spreads
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
Italy and Iran began introducing the sort of containment measures previously seen only in China, which has put tens of millions of people under lockdown in Hube...
Israel quarantines pupils who met SKorean tourists over virus fears
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
South Korean members of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus toured Israeli sites between February 8-15 and upon their return home 18 of them were discovered to be i...
Virus-hit province rewards doctors' children with extra exam points
Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)
Doctors and nurses in Hubei province -- where the outbreak originated and which has reported the majority of deaths -- have been lionized online and by state me...
Macau casinos to reopen after virus ban lifted
Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)
The resumption of the lynchpin industry comes after the city reported no new infections in the last two weeks, with the number confirmed cases at just ten peopl...
Coronavirus casts shadow on China's big screen ambitions
Feb 18, 2020 (AFP)
Like entertainment venues across the capital, the eight-screen movie theatre has been closed for nearly a month in response to the coronavirus outbreak which ha...
Armed gang steals toilet rolls in panic-buying Hong Kong
Feb 17, 2020 (AFP)
Toilet rolls have become hot property in the densely packed business hub, despite government assurances that supplies remain unaffected by the virus outbreak. S...
China demotes top official in charge of Hong Kong
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
The shuffling of officials at China's top policy body on the financial hub's affairs comes after months of political unrest -- the starkest challenge to Beijing...
China appoints hardliner to Hong Kong office
Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)
The reshuffle comes after months of political unrest -- the starkest challenge to Beijing since the former British colony was returned to Chinese rule in 1997. ...
Death of whistleblower ignites calls for political reform in China
Feb 09, 2020 (AFP)
Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan -- ground zero of China's virus epidemic which has killed more than 800 -- succumbed to the disease Friday over a month...
Coronavirus puts Shanghai into a coma
Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)
The deadly coronavirus epidemic has brought much of China to a standstill, but perhaps nowhere has the change been more stark than in the country's biggest and ...
China protests US bill threatening Tibet sanctions
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
The bill, passed by the US House of Representatives on Tuesday, proposes freezing any US assets and banning travel to the US by Chinese officials found to be in...
Foreigners prepare to flee as China virus toll tops 100
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
The deadly virus, which experts believe emanated from a wild animal market in the city of Wuhan last month, has triggered a desperate Chinese containment effort...
Proposed Hong Kong virus quarantine building firebombed during protest
Jan 26, 2020 (AFP)
The unrest came as city authorities announced anyone from Hubei, the central Chinese province where the outbreak began, would be denied entry until further noti...
Protest violence won't work, leading Hong Kong activist says
Jan 25, 2020 (AFP)
With the movement in a less frenetic and ferocious stage after seven months of unrest, Ng, who is also a lawyer, said people in Hong Kong were taking time to pr...
As intensity fades, Hong Kong protesters mull tactics
Jan 23, 2020 (AFP)
At a recent rally in the heart of Hong Kong's financial district, 36-year-old clerk Freesia held mixed emotions. Like so many Hong Kongers, he has spent much of...
China's former Interpol chief sentenced to 13 years in prison
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
Meng -- a former vice minister of public security -- is among a growing group of Communist Party cadres caught in President Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign, wh...
Kazakh court rules against returning two asylum seekers to China
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
Kaster Musakhan and Murager Alimuly were sentenced by a court in Kazakhstan to a year in jail for illegally crossing the border the two countries share, their l...
Toy Story: Hong Kong protest models become major hit
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
Stacked on shelves next to comic book superheroes, the models come in a variety of shapes and sizes, some holding make-shift shields and flags, others extinguis...
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