Story Archive
2019-07-18
Chen Wuquan is handed the sentence after helping local people protest against a planned land reclamation project.
2019-01-18
Wang Yanfang, wife of a detained rights attorney, says people like her
husband are jailed instead of being praised for their work.
2019-01-18
More than 30 Maoist activists, former Jasic workers, and NGO staff are being held, some on criminal charges, since a crackdown began last July.
2019-01-17
Well-wishers and supporters of late premier Zhao Ziyang are detained as they try to pay their respects at his family home in Beijing.
2019-01-17
Subic Bay was home to a sprawling U.S. navy base during the Cold War.
2019-01-17
A Pentagon report says China's People's Liberation Army is rapidly developing 'a robust, lethal force' that will allow Beijing to 'impose its will' in the region.
2019-01-16
Xie Haojie is wanted for economic crimes involving $210 M
2019-01-16
The son of Shenyang petitioner Liu Zhen is incommunicado after raising doubts about the cause of his father's death on social media.
2019-01-16
The club has been designated an 'illegal organization,' amid fears that arrests could follow.
2019-01-15
Robert Schellenberg has said he will appeal the sentence, which was handed down following a retrial ordered in the wake of Meng Wanzhou's arrest.
2019-01-15
The wife of Yu Wensheng, who has been held incommunicado for a year on suspicion of 'subversion,' receives the prize in his absence.
2019-01-14
Ji Xiaolong is sentenced to three-and-a-half years after complaining about indefinite rule by China's president.
2019-01-14
Police detain and place under house arrest dozens of would-be supporters and fellow activists, cordoning off the court building.
2019-01-11
Ti-Anna Wang and her family are turned away at the airport in spite of obtaining a valid visa, amid an ongoing diplomatic row over Huawei.
2019-01-11
The Chinese Communist Party is hoping that teachers from the former colonies and the democratic island of Taiwan will pledge to uphold its rule.
2019-01-11
Ethnic Mongolians fear the ruling Chinese Communist Party is about to begin a new 'wave of persecution' in the region.
2019-01-10
Wang Quanzhang's wife says she fears for his health and safety after more than three years of pretrial detention.
2019-01-10
Local newspaper reports several cases of brain damage in children fighting influenza in the provincial capital, Guangzhou.
2019-01-09
Officials move ahead with plans to criminalize any 'insult' to China's national anthem, without specifying which situations could result in prosecution.
2019-01-09
President Tsai Ing-wen's insistence that Beijing respect the island's democracy and statehood also wins widespread favor.
2019-01-08
A social media clip made by the activists was judged to have 'insulted' a Chinese leader, leading to 20-month jail terms.
2019-01-08
Freshly leaked documents indicate that Chinese officials thought nothing of bugging and surveilling the paper's journalists in violation of Hong Kong's promised autonomy.
2019-01-07
Police are handing out administrative punishments for 'using illegal channels to access the international internet.'
2019-01-07
The government-backed Islamic Association says the religion must be compatible with President Xi Jinping's political thought.
2019-01-04
Chinese commentators say the detentions indicate Beijing could be engaging in 'hostage diplomacy.'
2019-01-04
One-third of respondents overall said they intend to emigrate, with nearly 16 percent already preparing to leave.
2019-01-03
Malaysia’s prime minister, who stopped the project last year, says it might be revived on a smaller scale.
2019-01-03
Legislator alleges students, including Muslims, were forced to work in factories and were fed pork.
2019-01-03
Schools and teachers are ordered to check students' smartphones for content, links, or functions that could 'violate educational rules.'
2019-01-03
Wang Quanzhang's wife says the authorities are to blame for illegally holding him for three-and-a-half years without access to a lawyer.
