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Chasing celluloid dreams at China's Tinseltown

Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)

That dream remains a work in progress for Lu and thousands like him who eke out a precarious living as extras at Hengdian World Studios. Just as movie-goers use...

Stop harassing Swedish media, watchdog tells China

Mar 18, 2019 (AFP)

RSF intervened following the latest in a series of statements by the Chinese embassy there, this time attacking the news website of Sweden's public broadcaster ...

China's former energy chief accused of corruption

Mar 16, 2019 (AFP)

Nur Bekri, who was placed under investigation last September and removed from his post a month later, engaged in "family-style corruption", illegally accepting ...

Tibet struggle's slow slide off the global radar as Dalai Lama ages

Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)

Inside Tibet, Beijing has effectively wiped out any organised opposition to its iron-clad rule, while outside, the once-vocal support of sympathetic governments...

Civilians trapped as Myanmar rebels squabble over expected China boom

Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)

"Houses were on fire and a buffalo died," she told AFP, huddled on the floor with other elderly displaced people. She is one of several thousand forced to flee ...

West using Christianity to subvert Chinese state: official

Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)

China's officially atheist government, which oversees religious groups through state-sponsored institutions, has tightened its grip on all faiths in recent year...

US envoy defends his criticism of Chinese religious persecution

Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)

Brownback criticised the Chinese government in a speech on Friday in Hong Kong, saying the Chinese government is engaged in the persecution of Muslim Uighurs, T...

Tibet supporters in India mark 60 years since uprising

Mar 10, 2019 (AFP)

Supporters of the 83-year-old peace icon chanted and prayed at the Buddhist shrine in mountainous Dharamsala, where the Dalai Lama established a government-in-e...

The house always wins? Few trade war jitters as Macau's casinos boom

Mar 10, 2019 (AFP)

The city's fortunes depend almost solely on its gambling industry, which in a single week rakes in more gaming revenue than Las Vegas makes in a month. The trad...

Vietnam jails 15 over anti-China protests

Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)

Scores have been jailed in the wake of rare nationwide demonstrations in June 2018 that quickly turned violent in some areas as police struggled to quell the un...

Fired cancer patient exposes plight of Hong Kong's foreign maids

Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)

A single mother of five, Baby Jane Allas was just 38 when she was diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer in January. Then came a new gut punch -- a letter f...

China rolls out rap songs to pump up parliament

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

Chinese state media regularly rolls out clips targeted at foreign audiences during important political events, and this year's production has again raised eyebr...

China denies Tibet support for Dalai Lama

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

This week marks the 60th anniversary of a failed uprising which led to Tibet's Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fleeing into exile in India. Beijing -...

From camps to factories: Muslim detainees say China using forced labour

Mar 04, 2019 (AFP)

"They told us openly that the gloves will be sold abroad, so we should do a good job," Auelkhan recalled of a labour stint she says was enforced by Chinese "re-...

Missing Chinese rights lawyer returns home but 'still not free': wife

Mar 03, 2019 (AFP)

Jiang Tianyong -- who took on high-profile cases including those of Falun Gong practitioners and Tibetan protesters -- was one of more than 200 lawyers and acti...

China's Xi faces doubts as legislature meets

Mar 03, 2019 (AFP)

One year after the legislature abolished presidential term limits and etched Xi's name on the constitution, his "new era" vision of a resurgent China at the cen...

Venice-themed ship cruises to burgeoning China market

Mar 02, 2019 (AFP)

The Costa Venezia left the Fincantieri shipyard in northeastern Italy on Thursday for neighbouring Trieste. From there, it will head for China where it will car...

Activists say Chinese police step up use of video 'confessions'

Mar 02, 2019 (AFP)

In the past several months, Chinese authorities have cracked down on Marxist students and recent graduates who back efforts to establish independent labour unio...

Jailed Chinese rights lawyer disappears after release: activists

Feb 28, 2019 (AFP)

Jiang Tianyong -- who had taken on many high-profile cases including those of Falun Gong practitioners and Tibetan protesters -- was one of more than 200 lawyer...

Chinese-Australian political donor wins defamation case

Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)

Fairfax Media, publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald, was ordered to pay Chau Chak Wing Aus$280,000 (US$199,000) in damages after a judge at the Federal Court ...