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Mahjong and parking: Aussie politicians learn to court Chinese vote
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
The click-clack of mahjong tiles barely registers amid the din of chatter at the Box Hill senior citizens club in suburban Melbourne. This band of elderly Austr...
Nepal probes journalists for Dalai Lama news
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
The journalists, who work with Nepal's national news agency Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), were asked for clarifications after translating a wire report about ...
Wife of Chinese ex-Interpol boss granted asylum in France: lawyer
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
Grace Meng, who was given police protection after she alleged an abduction attempt at the start of the year, was granted asylum on May 2 along with the couple's...
Hong Kong extradition row sparks parliament scuffles
May 11, 2019 (AFP)
The legislative meeting on the government's disputed extradition bill was originally chaired by pro-democracy lawmaker James To, but the pro-Beijing camp earlie...
China charges ex-Interpol chief with accepting bribes
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
In a remarkable fall from grace, Meng -- who had served as vice minister of public security -- vanished last September during a visit to China from France, wher...
Chinese court holds off ruling on Canadian's death penalty appeal
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was sentenced to death in January after a court deemed his previous 15-year prison sentence too lenient. His appeal hearing came ...
Canadian drug smuggler to appeal China death sentence Thursday
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
The appeal comes against the backdrop of Beijing's anger over the December arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei, who faces a ...
US report warns of 'serious risks' from Hong Kong extraditions
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which was set up by Congress to advise on the security implications of US trade with China, said the extra...
Missing Chinese student alleges police abuse in video
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
In a video and written testimony published after he disappeared last week, Peking University student Qiu Zhanxuan said local police "tormented" him over a five-...
Wife of jailed China rights lawyer pleads to see him
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
Wang, 42, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison in January following a December trial that took place behind closed doors. A prominent lawyer who def...
Working stiffs: China's tech minions burn out in '996' rat race
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
Overworked, underpaid, and feeling like a hamster on a wheel, he is among China's masses of mostly male tech-industry staff whose long hours have sparked a nati...
Xi urges youth to 'love' the Communist Party
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
Xi delivered his hour-long plea at the Great Hall of the People to commemorate the May Fourth Movement, a landmark protest against colonialism and imperialism t...
US comments on Hong Kong 'gross interference': China
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
Four prominent activists were last week jailed for their role in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests, which paralysed Hong Kong's central business district for ...
Huge Hong Kong protest against China extradition plan
Apr 28, 2019 (AFP)
The extradition proposal has already sparked large protests and mounting alarm within the city's business and legal communities who fear it will hammer the fina...
Jailing of Hong Kong protesters 'deeply disappointing': UK
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
"The sentences handed to the 'Occupy' activists in Hong Kong are deeply disappointing," he said in a statement on Twitter, the day after four prominent leaders ...
Falungong: The movement that rattled Beijing
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
The government outlawed the group following the April 25, 1999 demonstration. Now deemed an evil cult by Chinese authorities, the group has gone underground in ...
Hong Kong democracy leaders jailed over Umbrella Movement protests
Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)
The prison terms are the latest hammer blow to the city's beleaguered democracy movement which has seen key figures jailed or banned from standing as legislator...
China formally arrests ex-Interpol chief
Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)
In a remarkable fall from grace, Meng -- who had also served as vice minister of public security -- vanished last September during a visit to China from France,...
20 years on, Falungong survives underground in China
Apr 23, 2019 (AFP)
It is a shadow of the spiritual movement's heyday in China, where the group once boasted more than 70 million followers before it was outlawed in 1999, giving p...
Chinese workers demand release of labour rights activists
Apr 22, 2019 (AFP)
Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing, editors of a labour rights news site that reported on the workers' cases, were arrested last month for "picking quarrels and provoki...
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