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Ex-governor urges British PM to speak out on Hong Kong in China visit
Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)
In a letter to May's Downing Street office, Chris Patten said Hong Kong was facing "increasing threats to the basic freedoms, human rights and autonomy" that it...
Leading Hong Kong democracy activist banned from vote
Jan 27, 2018 (AFP)
Agnes Chow, 21, a former leader of the mass Umbrella Movement protests of 2014 that called for political reform, had her nomination rejected because she support...
Chinese officials staging 'takeover' of Tibetan Buddhist academy: HRW
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
The monastic encampment of Larung Gar was once home to more than 10,000 devotees, their self-built red wooden homes sprawled across a valley in a remote corner ...
China's #MeToo movement emerges, testing censors' limits
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
Before she accused her professor of assaulting her, under the pretence of asking for help watering his plants, #MeToo had been slow to catch on in China. Activi...
EU envoy urges China to release Swedish book publisher
Jan 24, 2018 (AFP)
The case of Hong Kong-based Gui Minhai, 53, has sparked a diplomatic row between Stockholm and Beijing, with Chinese authorities declining to give any details a...
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong released on bail
Jan 23, 2018 (AFP)
Wong was jailed for three months last week, the second time he has received a prison sentence for his involvement in the Umbrella Movement. Campaigners fear pol...
Anger over second 'snatching' of bookseller in China
Jan 23, 2018 (AFP)
Rights have come under increasing pressure since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012, with widespread arrests of lawyers and activists. Gui, a Swedish citiz...
Chinese human rights lawyer's detention 'absurd': attorney
Jan 20, 2018 (AFP)
Yu Wensheng was seized as he left his Beijing apartment to walk his child to school by roughly a dozen people, including a SWAT team, sources told AFP on Friday...
China sees births fall despite push for second child
Jan 19, 2018 (AFP)
The country saw 17.23 million births in 2017, compared to 17.86 million in the previous year, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics, Ning Jizhe, said on...
China to enshrine Xi's name in state constitution
Jan 19, 2018 (AFP)
Xi's eponymous "thought" was already enshrined in the Communist Party constitution at the 19th Party Congress in October, elevating him to the same status as mo...
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed over protest
Jan 17, 2018 (AFP)
Wong, 21, who became the face of the 2014 Umbrella Movement, was handed a three-month sentence on a contempt charge for obstructing clearance of a major protest...
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for protest
Jan 17, 2018 (AFP)
Wong, 21, who had pleaded guilty to the contempt charge, was already on bail pending an appeal over a six-month sentence for another offence related to the Umbr...
Qantas changes website to recognise Chinese territories
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
The airline said Tuesday it was amending an "oversight", following in the footsteps of several other international corporations who were in the past week called...
China demolishes Christian megachurch
Jan 13, 2018 (AFP)
China's officially atheist Communist authorities are wary of any organised movements outside their control, including religious ones. The huge evangelical Jinde...
'Frost Boy' stirs poverty debate in China
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
Wang Fuman, a primary school student in southwest Yunnan province, gained the moniker "Frost Boy" after his principal shared a photo online of his rosy cheeks a...
China shuts Marriott website over Tibet mistake
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
Shanghai's cyberspace authority late Thursday ordered Marriott to close its Chinese website and app for a week and completely clear out illegal and irregular in...
Chinese law at Hong Kong rail station prompts legal battle
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
Joint immigration checkpoints at the West Kowloon Station are set to become special port areas, patrolled by mainland Chinese security and subject to Chinese la...
Former Chinese military chief of staff under investigation
Jan 09, 2018 (AFP)
Fang Fenghui was appointed to the PLA's top post in 2012. But he was abruptly replaced in late August amid a stand-off with India over a territorial dispute and...
China jails two for life for $2.4 bn pyramid scam
Jan 09, 2018 (AFP)
A court in the eastern city of Hangzhou on Monday convicted Huang Dingfang and Cai Keyi of fraud, Xinhua news agency said. Hang set up Longyan E-commerce Co. Lt...
Pro-democracy leaders in court in Hong Kong
Jan 09, 2018 (AFP)
The nine defendants face public nuisance charges related to the Umbrella Movement demonstrations, which shut down several major roads in the semi-autonomous Chi...
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