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US moves to ban Chinese officials unless Tibet opens

Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)

The bill, which passed with bipartisan support, comes after years of concern over human rights violations in the predominantly Buddhist region, where foreigners...

China probes two Canadians on suspected national security threat

Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)

Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and business consultant Michael Spavor were put under "compulsory measures" on Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kan...

China cracks down on unofficial Christian church

Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)

The police sweep occurred Sunday night, according to a statement from the Early Rain Covenant Church, which is based in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province...

Thousands of Myanmar women forced into marriage in China: study

Dec 07, 2018 (AFP)

China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to the decades-long one-child policy. To plug the gap, tens of thousands of poor women from Cambodia, Laos,...

EU should worry about Huawei, other Chinese firms: official

Dec 07, 2018 (AFP)

Huawei quickly hit back at European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip's warning, saying it was "surprised and disappointed" while rejecting any charges it ...

Germany's top human rights official says barred from Xinjiang

Dec 05, 2018 (AFP)

Reports have leaked out this year of gross human rights violations targeting the Uighur ethnic minority in the restive region in China's northwest. Barbel Kofle...

Hong Kong democrats 'furious' over new election ban

Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)

The disqualification of popular lawmaker Eddie Chu is the latest blow to the democratic movement as room for opposition in semi-autonomous Hong Kong shrinks und...

The 'Chinese Pyramids' and the pole star

Nov 30, 2018 (SPX)

Much less known than the statues is the fact that tomb proper (still not excavated) lies beneath a gigantic, artificial hill of rammed earth. This hill has a sq...

Award-winning photojournalist detained in China

Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)

The wife of Lu Guang said she lost contact with him on the night of November 3 when he was in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, a heavily policed region where au...

Jack Ma, China's richest man, is a Communist Party member

Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)

The billionaire's Communist bona fides were revealed by the People's Daily, the party's official mouthpiece, in an article praising contributors to China's deve...

New Zealand pressured to defend rights of China researcher

Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)

The open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern from 29 university academics and human rights campaigners, including Amnesty International New Zealand, was tri...

China bars US citizens from leaving over 'economic crimes'

Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)

According to the New York Times, Chinese-born mother Sandra Han and her children, Cynthia and Victor Liu, were prevented from leaving the country after they arr...

China urges UK to 'support' foreign media amid CCTV complaint

Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)

Peter Humphrey, a UK fraud investigator, said that China Central Television (CCTV) helped Chinese police stage his allegedly forced confession and subsequent ja...

Hong Kong democrats lose in key vote

Nov 25, 2018 (AFP)

The result is another blow to the democratic movement as room for opposition in semi-autonomous Hong Kong shrinks under an assertive China. Its representation i...

Too Marxist for China? Radical students rattle Communist leaders

Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)

But Chinese authorities are now facing an unlikely challenge spawned from their own efforts to indoctrinate the population with the ideology of the party: young...

Filipinos 'Pooh-Pooh' Xi's Manila visit

Nov 20, 2018 (AFP)

The self-described "bear of very little brain" has been used in the past on social media to poke fun at portly Xi, a joke that has drawn crackdowns from Beijing...

China's youth embrace street dance amid hip-hop crackdown

Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)

Inside a dance studio in central Beijing, a group of kids bopped up and down to an American hip-hop beat as they mimicked their teacher, a young woman in a dark...

Hong Kong democracy leaders plead not guilty in Umbrella Movement trial

Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)

The pioneering trio are among nine activists all facing public nuisance charges for their participation in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests. The charges are ...

Pelt and road: Tribal welcome for Xi in PNG

Nov 16, 2018 (AFP)

Xi Jinping unveiled a plaque marking the new "Independence Boulevard" outside Papua New Guinea's parliament, a symbolic show of the Asian giant's growing influe...

Hong Kong lawyers demand explanation over journalist ban

Nov 16, 2018 (AFP)

Victor Mallet, a senior journalist with the Financial Times, was refused a work visa extension and then barred from entering the city as a tourist after he chai...