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A leading Chinese rights activist who organized rallies for media freedom pleaded not guilty to charges of disturbing public order in an all-night trial in which the judge rejected his
A prominent human rights lawyer was released from six months in police custody in central China, according a Beijing-based social justice group. Chang Boyang has been campaigning for the rights of
China urged Taiwan to protect the gains of landmark cooperation between the mainland and the self-ruled island after Taiwan’s pro-Beijing ruling party was routed in local elections. The defeat in Saturday’s
Some 115 terrorist groups were quashed and 334 suspects detained, with another 52 turning themselves in during the six months to Nov. 22, according to a report posted on the
At least 11 people were killed yesterday in the second deadly coal mine accident to hit China in two days, pointing to continuing safety issues in the industry despite a major decline
Kweichow Moutai Group deputy general manager Fang Guoxing is under investigation for serious violations of discipline, the Central Committee for Discipline Inspection said on its website. The term almost always refers
Hong Kong police arrested 11 more people in a second night of scuffles with demonstrators angry at having their 2-month-old pro-democracy protest camp in a volatile neighborhood shut down, officials
Ustin, a rare Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin, is behaving badly in his new home in northeastern China. The tiger, one of two to enter China from Russia’s
A fire sparked by underground tremors tore through a coal mine in northeastern China early yesterday, killing 26 miners and leaving several others with life-threatening injuries, state media reported. Another 50 miners were
President Xi Jinping’s grand plan to make China the center of the world again by reviving the ancient Silk Road trading route faces obstacles at its first stop. In Kazakhstan, through
Police arrested key student leaders of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests yesterday as they cleared barricades in one volatile district, throwing into doubt the future of a 2-month-old movement seeking free elections
A senior Chinese diplomat yesterday called on the U.S. and other Western countries to put aside their wariness of China’s justice system and work with Beijing to send back officials who have
China is considering fining smokers who light up indoors as much as 500 yuan (USD81) and penalizing operators who don’t stop them, a sign of rising political willingness to curb
Seven minority students were standing trial on separatism charges yesterday for working on a website run by a prominent Muslim Uighur scholar convicted on the same charge in far western China,
Hong Kong authorities began clearing a 2-month-old pro-democracy protest site in Mong Kok district yesterday, risking confrontation with demonstrators in the neighborhood, a flashpoint for previous violent clashes with police
Tencent Holdings Ltd., controlled by China’s third-richest man Ma Huateng, has won exclusive rights to air HBO content online in China. The agreement between Tencent and Time Warner Inc.’s HBO comes
Over two weeks, the Communist Party-run Liaoning Daily newspaper sent reporters to sit in on dozens of university lectures all over the country looking for what the paper said were
Prosecutors were granted seven months to further investigate charges against Rurik Jutting, a former Bank of America Corp. employee whose psychiatric reports said he’s fit to plead in a double-murder
Defying a U.S. call to halt the project, China defended its land reclamation in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea yesterday, saying the work is for public service use, although a
A Chinese-French film about blind masseurs and Chinese actor and director Chen Jianbin scooped the most accolades at Taiwan’s 51st Golden Horse movie awards, considered the Chinese-language equivalent of the
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