Story Archive
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.
2019-01-02
Political commentators react with warnings about the erosion of Hong Kong's promised autonomy, rights and freedoms by Beijing.
2019-01-02
Hong Kong's government bans 'activities promoting or advocating' independence for the city from a square outside its headquarters.
2019-01-01
Several ethnic Kazakh women have been returned to a "re-education" camp after refusing to sign exploitative contracts in a textile factory.
2019-01-01
The march comes as dozens of overseas Chinese dissidents call on the world to wake up its memories of the 1989 pro-democracy movement on Tiananmen Square.
