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Former China leader Jiang Zemin dies, aged 96
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
Jiang took power in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, in which the military used deadly force to end the uprising, and led China towards its emer...
Canada police investigating broad China interference
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs is looking into possible foreign interference in Canadian elections. The letter obtained by AFP on Tuesday...
Fresh clashes in south China as authorities warn of 'crackdown'
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
China's top security body warned late on Tuesday night that authorities would "crack down" on the protests, which are the most widespread since pro-democracy ra...
Former China leader Jiang Zemin dead at 96
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
He died Wednesday at the age of 96, state news agency Xinhua reported. Jiang rose from a factory engineer to leader of the world's most populous country, steeri...
China cities under heavy policing after protests
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
The country's leadership is facing a wave of protest not seen in decades, fuelled by anger over the unrelenting lockdowns as well as deep-rooted frustrations ov...
Chinese cities under heavy policing after protests
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
The country's leadership faced a weekend of protests not seen in decades as anger over unrelenting lockdowns fuels deep-rooted frustration with its political sy...
Top China security body calls for 'crackdown' on 'hostile forces' after protests
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
The ruling Communist Party's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which oversees all domestic law enforcement in China, said it was "necessary to cra...
China warns of 'crackdown' after major protests
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
The stark warning came after security services were out in force across China following demonstrations not seen in decades, as anger over unrelenting lockdowns ...
UK summons China envoy after arrest of BBC journalist; China a 'systemic challenge' says Sunak
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
Zheng Zeguang was called in to the foreign office after the incident involving Ed Lawrence in Shanghai, which Foreign Secretary James Cleverly had called "deepl...
China protests speak to deep political frustrations
Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)
People took to the streets across China on Sunday to call for an end to lockdowns and for greater political freedoms, in a wave of widespread protest not seen s...
Hong Kong cardinal among activists convicted over protest fund
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
Five of the group were fined HK$4,000 (US$500) for the crime of failing to properly register the fund as a society, while a sixth got a smaller fine. Cardinal J...
Violent protests at largest iPhone factory in China
Nov 23, 2022 (AFP)
In videos shared with AFP or circulated on social media, hundreds of workers can be seen marching on a road and confronted by riot police as well as people wear...
Hong Kong jails first person for insulting national anthem
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
Paula Leung, 42, pleaded guilty to insulting China's "March of the Volunteers" when it was played after Hong Kong fencer Edgar Cheung won a gold medal, accordin...
Bao Tong, Chinese ex-official turned dissident, dead at 90
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
Bao had spent much of the past three decades under home surveillance or in prison following the Chinese military's violent crackdown on the student movement, wh...
Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong criticise court ruling on Lai's UK lawyer
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
Lai and a group of executives from the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper are being prosecuted for "colluding with foreign forces", an offence under a national...
CBC shuts down China bureau citing lack of visa
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
CBC News Editor-in-Chief Brodie Fenlon wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the China correspondent for French-language counterpart Radio-Canada had not recei...
Scholz vows not to ignore 'controversies' on China visit
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
"We seek cooperation, when it is in the interest of both sides. We will not ignore controversies," he wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, ahe...
'Law and order returned' Hong Kong's US-sanctioned leader tells bankers
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
The Asian business hub is hosting a week of high-profile events after years of political unrest and pandemic travel curbs tarnished the city's business-friendly...
Netherlands tells China to close 'police stations'
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
The police posts in Amsterdam and Rotterdam purported to offer diplomatic assistance but they had not been declared to the Netherlands government, Dutch media r...
Hong Kong pastor, housewife jailed over 'seditious' court applause
Oct 27, 2022 (AFP)
The sentence is the latest under Hong Kong's sedition law, once a little-used hangover from the British colonial period that has been embraced by prosecutors as...
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