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Chinese endure New Year travel rush for a taste of home
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
Exiled Hong Kong activist Ted Hui handed bankruptcy order
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
The 41-year-old veteran activist Hui announced in December 2020 that he had gone into exile following Beijing's crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong, which saw the...
Yang Jun: dissident Chinese-Australian writer handed suspended death sentence
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
Yang -- who also goes by the pen name Yang Hengjun -- was born in China in 1965 and became an Australian citizen in the early 2000s. He grew a readership in exi...
Hong Kong to allow recognition of some China court rulings
Jan 29, 2024 (AFP)
The reciprocal arrangement will allow for the two-way recognition of court judgemnts in Hong Kong and China for civil or commercial lawsuits -- should the parti...
Xi's corruption crackdown targets embattled finance sector
Jan 23, 2024 (AFP)
Since rising to power a decade ago, Xi has waged a constant campaign against deep-seated graft that has led to the punishment of at least 4.7 million officials,...
Shanghai's elderly seek romance at Ikea lonely hearts club
Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)
Every Tuesday, hundreds of elderly lovebirds take over most of the tables in the chain's spacious canteen, shunning the classic Swedish meatballs for their own ...
Hit Chinese TV series rekindles sidelined Shanghainese dialect
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
The highly anticipated "Blossoms Shanghai" is famed Hong Kong film auteur Wong Kar-wai's small screen debut, chronicling its protagonist's rise from nobody to b...
Beijing says US stance on Nauru diplomatic switch a 'smear' on China
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
Washington "is doing its utmost to smear and slander China's diplomatic efforts, and putting in a word for Taiwan to expand its space on the international stage...
China appoints son of ex-president Hu Jintao to senior govt role
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
Hu Haifeng, 51, has been named vice head of the country's civil affairs ministry, according to a statement on the website of the human resources and social secu...
China to pile on pressure after rebuke from Taiwan's voters
Jan 14, 2024 (AFP)
Taiwan voters on Saturday elected independence-leaning Lai Ching-te as president, handing an unprecedented third consecutive term to the Democratic Progressive ...
Taiwan poll candidate Hou vows not to 'sell out' to China
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
Democratic Taiwan is two days from a pivotal election that is being watched from Beijing to Washington, as the next president would determine the island's futur...
Hong Kong man jailed over 'seditious' shirt
Jan 10, 2024 (AFP)
Chu Kai-pong, 26, was arrested and charged in November before boarding a flight to Taiwan at Hong Kong's International Airport and has since been remanded. The ...
China's Xi vows intensified crackdown on corruption
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
Xi, who began his second decade as China's top leader in 2022 in a break with longstanding political norms, has waged a fierce campaign against corruption since...
China expels nine army officials from parliament; New defence minister appointed
Dec 30, 2023 (AFP)
The decision, announced late on Friday by the state news agency Xinhua came after a meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Communist Party. No explanati...
Former vice-chair of China's banking regulator handed life sentence
Dec 29, 2023 (AFP)
Beijing launched a sprawling campaign to counter graft in 2012, following the ascension of leader Xi Jinping to the top of the governing Communist Party. Since ...
Chinese ex-central bank executive sentenced to 16 years for graft
Dec 28, 2023 (AFP)
Sun Guofeng, formerly head of the monetary policy department at the People's Bank of China, exchanged information for bribes totalling 21 million yuan ($3 milli...
China blasts UK, US 'malicious intentions in messing up Hong Kong'
Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)
The city's authorities said Thursday that the wanted individuals would be pursued "till the end" as they offered HK$1,000,000 ($128,000) bounties for help catch...
China arrests former top bank official for bribery
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
The case of Zhou Qingyu, a former vice president of the China Development Bank, "has been transferred... for examination and prosecution", state news agency Xin...
Philippines deports 180 Chinese detained in anti-trafficking raid
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Filipino nationals were among the nearly 600 people found inside a compound during the operation in October. Sex toys, a massage...
China blasts UK's 'malicious intentions' after Cameron meets Hong Kong dissident
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
Lai, a 75-year-old British citizen and founder of the now-shuttered tabloid Apple Daily, has been behind bars in Hong Kong since 2020, awaiting trial for allege...
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