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Two jailed for insulting policeman who killed dog in China
Jan 08, 2018 (AFP)
The two men were handed five-day sentences on Saturday, the Changsha police bureau in the central province of Hunan said on their official Weibo social media ac...
Migrant worker evictions tear at Beijing's backbone
Jan 04, 2018 (AFP)
Lin Huiqing moved to Beijing to look for work when his children were still in diapers. For the last eighteen years, he has seen his family just once a year, the...
China puts Tibetan language advocate on trial for subversion
Jan 04, 2018 (AFP)
Tashi Wangchuk was featured in a New York Times documentary that followed him on a trip to Beijing, where he attempted to get Chinese state media and courts to ...
Tech icon ordered back to China sends wife instead
Jan 02, 2018 (AFP)
Jia Yueting, the 44-year-old head of a tech empire that has spanned electric cars and smartphones, posted a letter on social media to the Beijing branch of the ...
French President Macron to visit China next week
Jan 02, 2018 (AFP)
This will be Macron's first state visit to the country, and the first by a European Union nation leader since the ruling Communist Party's 19th national congres...
Anti-Beijing protesters march in Hong Kong
Jan 01, 2018 (AFP)
Demonstrators scuffled with police at the end of the march and some who refused to leave the protest area were carried or escorted out by security guards. Semi-...
Keep calm and be average: China's unambitious millennials
Dec 29, 2017 (AFP)
Nicknamed "Buddhist Youth", these young people have embraced a laissez-faire approach to life which has more to do with being chilled out than reading sutras. "...
China approves mainland law enforcement at HK station
Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)
A high-speed railway linking Hong Kong to the sprawling southern mainland cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou is due to open next year. But the proposal for a join...
Scholars call for release of detained Maoist in China
Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)
Zhang Yunfan, a recent graduate of China's prestigious Peking University, was detained last month in the southern city of Guangzhou for "organising mass gatheri...
Chinese tech icon ordered back to China over debt woes
Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)
Jia, who is thought to be in the US attempting to build his Los Angeles-based electric car company, was added to a national blacklist of debt defaulters by Chin...
Cambodia sends maids to HK to plug gap after abuse scandals
Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)
Hong Kong is home to more than 300,000 foreign maids, mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia. But high-profile cases of abuse and forced labour have seized g...
China Communist Party takes control of paramilitary police
Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)
The move puts the force, which maintains domestic security, squarely under the command of President Xi Jinping, who is also head of the military. The 660,000-st...
US and Germany urge China to release jailed activist
Dec 27, 2017 (AFP)
Wu Gan, who refused to plead guilty to charges of "subverting state power", was on Tuesday handed one of the harshest punishments meted out to a group of lawyer...
Tattooed and proud: Chinese women peel away stigmas
Dec 26, 2017 (AFP)
Nowhere is the trend more evident than in Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city and recently dubbed "China's tattoo mecca" by the country's state media. Body...
Chinese court auctions skyscraper for $84 million
Dec 26, 2017 (AFP)
The 39-floor building in Taiyuan, northern Shanxi province, along with the land on which it sits, goes on the block January 2 on Taobao, Alibaba's e-commerce pl...
Chinese killer who played mute for 12 years loses power of speech
Dec 26, 2017 (AFP)
The man surnamed Zeng left his village in the eastern province of Zhejiang in 2005 after killing his wife's uncle following a rent dispute over 500 yuan ($76), ...
Chinese activist jailed for 8 years after major crackdown
Dec 26, 2017 (AFP)
The punishment handed to Wu Gan, who refused to plead guilty to charges of "subverting state power", was intended as an unmistakable signal to anyone who would ...
Artist 'released' in China after Liu Xiaobo tribute
Dec 25, 2017 (AFP)
"I was released a few days ago and we are in my hometown now," the Twitter account of painter Hu Jiamin read days after Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao reported th...
Hamleys opens its largest toy store in Beijing amid Christmas debate
Dec 23, 2017 (AFP)
Christmas elves, a teddy bear parade and a curiously slender Santa marked the opening of the five-storey emporium -- double the size of Hamleys' flagship London...
At least 10,000 killed in 1989 Tiananmen crackdown: British cable
Dec 23, 2017 (AFP)
The document, made public more than 28 years after the event, describes injured girls being bayoneted, bodies being ground up by armoured vehicles and human rem...
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