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China jails two prominent human rights lawyers for over ten years
Apr 10, 2023 (AFP)
Xu Zhiyong and fellow campaigner Ding Jiaxi were convicted of "subversion of state power" following closed-door trials. Both were leading figures in the New Cit...
Taiwan to work with US to counter China authoritarianism
Apr 08, 2023 (AFP)
Beijing announced three-days of military exercises around Taiwan on Saturday, calling them a "stern warning" to the self-ruled island's government after Tsai me...
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei launches new London show
Apr 05, 2023 (AFP)
The show at the capital's Design Museum features hundreds of thousands of objects collected by the Chinese artist since the 1990s, from Stone Age tools to Lego ...
Brazil's Lula, ill with pneumonia, postpones China trip
Mar 25, 2023 (AFP)
Lula, who succeeded the far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro at the start of the year, had hoped to use the trip next week to reclaim his country's role in global di...
N. Zealand raises concerns with China over rights, Taiwan
Mar 25, 2023 (AFP)
Nanaia Mahuta held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang in which they discussed "challenging issues", she said, including human rights in Xinjiang, free...
Blinken seeks US funds for UN culture agency to counter China
Mar 22, 2023 (AFP)
Congress, then fully controlled by Blinken's Democratic Party, in December paved the way for the United States to restore funding to the Paris-based agency that...
Hong Kong asylum seekers fear deportation under tightened policy
Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)
"When you're running for your safety, you never know where you go. You just want to go where you can be safe," said John, an African man in his 40s, who asked t...
US arrests Chinese tycoon who backed Trump advisor Bannon
Mar 15, 2023 (AFP)
The US Justice Department accused Guo Wengui and still-at-large British co-conspirator Je Kin Ming of stealing funds from participants in an investment scheme s...
Honduras to establish diplomatic ties with China
Mar 15, 2023 (AFP)
Castro wrote on Twitter that she had instructed Foreign Minister Eduardo Reina "to undertake the opening of official relations with the People's Republic of Chi...
A look at China's new structural reforms
Mar 13, 2023 (AFP)
Here are some of the key changes announced in recent days at the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing: - Science and technology ministry reshuffle - Chin...
Li Qiang appointed Chinese premier as Xi asserts influence
Mar 11, 2023 (AFP)
Li, the former Shanghai party chief who oversaw the city's gruelling two-month lockdown last spring, was named the successor of outgoing premier Li Keqiang at a...
Hong Kong hands jail terms to Tiananmen vigil organisers
Mar 11, 2023 (AFP)
The candlelight vigil to mourn victims of China's bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 was banned by Hong Kong ...
Who is China's President Xi Jinping
Mar 10, 2023 (AFP)
More than 10 years later, those forecasts lie in tatters, proving only how little was understood of the man who is now China's most powerful ruler since Mao Zed...
Asia, Europe track Wall St losses after Powell's rate hike warning
Mar 08, 2023 (AFP)
In much-anticipated testimony to US lawmakers, Powell dealt a hammer blow to traders who had held faint hopes that the central bank could pause its tightening c...
Xi condemns US-led 'suppression of China': state media
Mar 07, 2023 (AFP)
"Western countries led by the United States have implemented all-round containment, encirclement and suppression of China, which has brought unprecedented sever...
China's rubber-stamp parliament to begin meetings, hand Xi third term
Mar 04, 2023 (AFP)
There will be few surprises at the carefully choreographed National People's Congress, analysts say, with thousands of politicians flown in from across China to...
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil organisers convicted under national security law
Mar 04, 2023 (AFP)
The candlelight vigil was banned by authorities in 2020, weeks before Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law to stamp out political dissent in Hong Ko...
China's Xi to secure third term as president, brush off crises
Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)
Xi is certain to be reappointed as president after he locked in another five years as head of the Communist Party (CCP) and the military -- the two more signifi...
FBI director says Covid 'most likely' caused by Wuhan lab accident
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
"The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Wray said in an interview wit...
Asian markets rise as China data spurs recovery hopes
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
The forecast-busting reading on manufacturing -- the highest since 2012 -- reinforced the view that the world's second-biggest economy will bounce back strongly...
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