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China executes man who killed 15 people in car attack
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
Last September, Yang Zanyun ploughed a Land Rover into pedestrians at a public square in Hengdong city before slashing at people with a shovel and dagger. Fifte...
Followed, harassed: foreign reporters say China work conditions worsen
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
A survey of 109 journalists published Tuesday "painted the darkest picture of reporting conditions inside China in recent memory", the Foreign Correspondents' C...
Canadian drug trafficker has likely appealed China death sentence: lawyer
Jan 28, 2019 (AFP)
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was handed the death penalty at a one-day retrial two weeks ago after a high court decided that his previous 15-year sentence was...
Chinese rights lawyer jailed for 'subversion'; Activist jailed for five years
Jan 28, 2019 (AFP)
Wang, 42, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, disappeared in a sweep aimed at courtroom critics of Communist authorities known as the...
Cambodia's bid to be 'New Macau' stirs old wounds as Chinese cash in
Jan 27, 2019 (AFP)
"It's not so bad if I lost tonight," said Dong Qiang, adding: "I will try my luck tomorrow." The coastal capital of Preah Sihanouk province -- named after Cambo...
China to arrest 19 over military veteran protests: state media
Jan 26, 2019 (AFP)
The 19 people are accused of "gathering crowds to disturb social order" in the eastern cities of Pingdu in October or Zhenjiang in June of last year and "intent...
Australian detained in China receives consular visit: official
Jan 25, 2019 (AFP)
Embassy staff made a consular visit to Yang in the afternoon, according to a brief statement released by the Australian department of foreign affairs. "Access t...
Australia demands China treat detained national 'fairly'
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
Yang -- a novelist, democracy advocate and former Chinese diplomat -- was detained shortly after he made a rare return to China from the United States last week...
China says Australian held on national security grounds
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
Yang's detention comes at a moment of heightened tension between Western countries and an increasingly muscular Beijing, which recently detained two Canadians a...
Gambling hub Macau shrugs off China downturn with tourist surge
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
The semi-autonomous city of just 620,000 people -- which rakes in five times the gaming revenue of Las Vegas -- said 35.8 million people visited in 2018, a 10 p...
Australia asks for answers on dissident missing in China
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
Yang Hengjun -- a novelist, former Chinese diplomat and democracy activist -- went missing shortly after he returned to the southern city of Guangzhou last week...
Chinese authorities detain students, labour activists
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing has taken an uncompromising line against efforts to establish independent labour unions in southern Guangdong province, the epicentre of China's high-te...
China rebukes ex-envoys over detained Canadians
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were on December 10 arrested for activities that "endanger China's national security" -- a phrase ...
China's ageing elite live golden years in style
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
As China's population ages rapidly and the one-child policy left parents with only a single child to help them in their old age, the upper crust of Chinese soci...
Ex-diplomats, scholars urge China to release Canadians
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were on December 10 arrested for activities that "endanger China's security" -- a phrase often use...
Above the concrete canopy: Hong Kong from the sky
Jan 21, 2019 (AFP)
Internationally it may be best known as a high-octane finance hub filled with skyscrapers, but there is much more to the city -- from bustling ports and picture...
Macau denies entry to Hong Kong former activist leader
Jan 17, 2019 (AFP)
Yvonne Leung, 25, was a prominent leader of the 2014 pro-democracy movement and the only female student leader to meet with senior government officials at the h...
Canada asks China clemency for convicted drug trafficker
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
Ottawa has warned its citizens about the risk of "arbitrary enforcement" of laws in China following a court's sentencing of Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, to de...
Chinese dissidents in Taiwan airport limbo for over 100 days
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
Their case has parallels with that of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, the Saudi teen who was given sanctuary in Canada after she sensationally deployed social media to...
Canada asks China for clemency for convicted drug trafficker
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
Ottawa has warned its citizens about the risk of "arbitrary enforcement" of laws in China following a court's sentencing of Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, to de...
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