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'Brutal' China threatens Hong Kong freedoms: activist in Germany
Jun 04, 2019 (AFP)
While the regime's bloody suppression of Beijing pro-democracy protests in 1989 shocked the world, "China is now more brutal than ever," asserted Ray Wong, 25, ...
30 years after Tiananmen, US says hopes dashed as China defends crackdown
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
As China tried to impose a media blackout ahead of Tuesday's anniversary of the 1989 assault on pro-democracy protesters, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saluted...
US defends welcome to students as China warns of risk
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
Amid an escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies, China's education ministry pointed to an uptick in visa denials and delays. It told stud...
China gene babies' mutation linked to higher mortality: study
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
Chinese researcher He Jiankui last year provoked widespread outrage among doctors by unveiling the results of an experiment he conducted to alter the DNA of twi...
From 1989 to '1984': Generation Tiananmen lament China's descent
Jun 02, 2019 (AFP)
Zhou Fengsuo has always erred on the side of optimism. Five years ago, to mark the 25th anniversary of Beijing's deadly crackdown, he took advantage of a 72-hou...
Exiled Tiananmen dissident barred from Hong Kong
Jun 02, 2019 (AFP)
Other former student leaders from the 1989 protests have been blocked from entering the city before, according to local media reports, but a growing list of ove...
The 'other' Tiananmen: 30 years ago, protests engulfed China
Jun 01, 2019 (AFP)
He was not anywhere near Tiananmen Square. Hutterer was more than 1,800 kilometres (1,100 miles) away in the southwestern city of Chengdu, one of many where tho...
Hong Kong's alienated youngsters split over Tiananmen vigil
May 31, 2019 (AFP)
Students and youngsters have been at the vanguard of democracy protests that have convulsed Hong Kong in recent years as anger rises over inequality and Beijing...
'Unimaginable': Families of Tiananmen dead demand truth
May 31, 2019 (AFP)
After seven weeks of protests by students and workers demanding democratic changes and the end of corruption, soldiers and tanks chased and killed demonstrators...
Cameras and crackdowns: Another Tiananmen 'impossible' in China
May 30, 2019 (AFP)
The Chinese Communist Party has gone to great lengths to prevent another pro-democracy movement, clamping down on student activists, labour movements and lawyer...
Hong Kong raises jail threshold for proposed extradition law
May 30, 2019 (AFP)
The city's pro-Beijing authorities are pushing a bill through the legislature which would allow case-by-case extraditions to any jurisdiction it doesn't already...
Mahathir says Malaysia will use Huawei 'as much as possible'
May 30, 2019 (AFP)
Mahathir Mohamad, speaking at a conference in Tokyo, acknowledged the security concerns but said they would not deter Malaysia. "Yes, there may be some spying. ...
China detains activists, mutes livestreams ahead of Tiananmen anniversary
May 30, 2019 (AFP)
Discussions of the 1989 pro-democracy protests and its military suppression are taboo in China, and authorities have rounded up or warned activists, lawyers and...
Hong Kong independence activists granted refugee status in Germany
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
The move highlights growing fears that freedoms in Hong Kong are quickly deteriorating as an assertive Beijing flexes its muscles and stamps down on dissent. Ra...
Dalai Lama counters book's claim about Xi meeting in Delhi
May 21, 2019 (AFP)
In "Defining India - Through Their Eyes", author Sonia Singh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government scuttled a proposed meeting between the Buddhist lea...
US ambassador makes rare visit to Tibet
May 20, 2019 (AFP)
The visit by Ambassador Terry Branstad comes two months after the US State Department said Beijing had "systematically" impeded access to Tibetan areas for US d...
China formally arrests Canadian ex-diplomat, businessman: report
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
A Canadian government source told The Globe and Mail that neither Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, nor Michael Spavor, a China-based businessman who organised...
China formally arrests Canadian ex-diplomat, businessman
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
Ottawa denounced the move and demanded the pair's prompt release. Former diplomat Michael Kovrig is "suspected of collecting state secrets and intelligence," wh...
Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong sent back to jail
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
Wong, 22, became one of the most recognisable faces of the "Umbrella Movement" in 2014 which paralysed key intersections of the financial hub for more than two ...
Xi agreed to meet Dalai Lama in 2014: book
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
The 83-year-old Buddhist monk has made India his home since fleeing the Tibetan capital Lhasa in 1959 -- and has been a thorn in Beijing's side ever since. "In ...
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