Photographing the aftermath of catastrophic events is challenging—one that photographer Mu Li handles with creativity and grace looking back at the chemical explosion in Tianjin that damaged as many as 17,000 homes August 12, 2015. Another...
City’s acting Communist party chief is accused of ‘serious discipline breaches’ by investigators.
Ai Xiaoming is one of China’s leading documentary filmmakers and political activists. Since 2004, she has made more than two dozen films, many of them long,...
On September 4, Hong Kong elected a batch of its youngest and most pro-democratic lawmakers yet. Six new legislators, all under 40, won on platforms that called for Hong Kongers to decide their own fate. The youngest is 23-year-old Nathan Law, a...
Many in Hong Kong are increasingly concerned about Beijing's interventions in its politics.
Zhenhua Ltd. is a glass-making firm based in Dezhou, a city in China’s northeastern Shandong province. The factory sits amid a cluster of modern residential areas, so when the company failed to limit its emissions of polluted air...
In early August, Beijing held show trials of four legal activists—a disheartening turn for those optimistic about legal reform in...
As tensions between the United States and China rise over security issues in the Asia-Pacific region, some are concerned about the possibility of conflict between the world’s two largest economies. Dennis Wilder, former Senior...
Hundreds are detained since last year as a part of a crackdown on ‘legal activism’.....
China is still territorial under no ‘legal bias’.....
It has long been routine to find in both China’s official news organizations and its social media a barrage of anti-American comment, but rarely has it reached quite the intensity and fury of the last few days. There have been...
Sex work is illegal in China, and law enforcement practices that focus on condoms as evidence of prostitution are having a negative impact on HIV prevention among sex workers. When Lanlan, who runs a community-based organization (CBO) and support...
“China's ‘dual-track’ approach offers an excellent opportunity” for dialogue, a Xinhua commentary argues.
International responses to the tribunal’s ruling in the South China Sea have raised questions about the stability of the Asia-Pacific region and what roles the United States and China have in it. In this podcast, Paul Haenle and...
The new drills are the first since last week’s decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.
By reiterating its policy of “no acceptance, no participation, no recognition, and no implementation,” China has painted itself into a difficult corner and diminished the chances of resolving the myriad maritime disputes—involving Vietnam, Brunei...
‘I don't think China is getting a fair shake,’ one expert said.
Nation remains committed to resolving maritime disputes through negotiation, President Xi says.
Under China’s censorship laws any films suggesting the existence of the supernatural can be banned from distribution.
On Tuesday in the Hague, the Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected China’s claims that a scattering of rocks and reefs in the contested South China Sea qualify as Exclusive Economic Zones for China. The court found in favor of the Philippines’...
To save football from corruption, the betting should no longer be illicit...
The report highlighted the urgent need for big multinational companies to do more to fight corruption.
The panel has called for her immediate release.
Chinese police say he is in breach of his bail terms and have threatened further action if he does not return.
Lake Baikal contains 20 percent of the world’s freshwater resources and affects the regional climate of North Asia and the Arctic Basin. The lake is home to 2,500 aquatic species and local communities in Mongolia and Russia revere the lake as the...
Mighty Current Media booksellers make a statement from prison....
Determined Chinese internet users turn to Virtual private Networks....
Lu Wei, the often combative Chinese official known as China’s “Internet Czar,” will step down, and is to be replaced by a former deputy of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The personnel change comes after a period of mounting restrictions on China’s...
"China does not accept any dispute resolution from a third party."
Nanfu Wang hoped that a woman called Ye Haiyan (“Hooligan Sparrow”), who had offered free sex on the Internet to draw attention to the plight of poor women selling their bodies to support their children, would lead her to the prostitutes she...
Government demands an apology from a writer questioning an ‘official account of a wartime story’.....
The draft requires network operators to comply with social morals and accept the supervision of the government and public.
Yang Jiechi and Pham Binh Minh expressed a need for agreements that prevent rows from getting out of hand.
Rights activists and Taiwan say the plan reflects the great influence Beijing exercises over Cambodia through aid and investment.
The report shows a discrepancy between official figures for the number of transplants carried out throughout the country.
China has stepped up its rhetoric ahead of a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.
Mr. Lin is detained on suspicion of recieving bribes and abuse of power....
More than two decades after a young man in the northern province of Hebei was executed for the alleged rape and murder of a woman, his mother is anxiously awaiting a retrial to clear his name.
Zhang Huanzhi’s only son, Nie...
Villagers called for the return of seized land and the release of a former protest leader who was elected village chief in 2012.
The incidents have raised concerns that Chinese authorities violated the “one country, two systems” formula.
After leaving office, travel is limited for three years for high-level officials....
Man files suit for homophobic maltreatment within a mental institution....
Beginning earlier this year, four-star Admiral Harry Harris, the U.S. Navy’s top commander in the Pacific, has spoken out in speeches, interviews, private meetings, and testimony to Congress urging that the U.S. take more aggressive action...
Rules barring foreign media firms from video-streaming licenses are being more strictly enforced.
More than 9.4 million Chinese students attended this year's college entrance exams (Gaokao) in China, and cheating in Gaokao is now considered a criminal offense.
Between October and May, the first eight months of the fiscal year, Border Patrol agents in the San Diego sector apprehended an estimated 663 Chinese nationals, compared with 48 in the entire previous fiscal year and eight in the year before that...
All land in China is owned by the government, which parcels it out to developers and homeowners through 20- to 70-year leases.
Internet giant Baidu said May 23, it would gradually take down discussion forums on literature from its popular online bulletin board service to remove content suspected of infringing upon intellectual property rights.
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Last month, midway through a whirlwind tour of United States universities, Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong took a break for a crab cake and mac-and-cheese lunch at a Manhattan brasserie. Wong, 19, came to international...
Undelivered homes drive some buyers to sue while developers seek refunds on land.
International tensions are rising over the shipping lanes and land formations in the South China Sea. Last week, the People’s Liberation Army Air Force scrambled fighter jets in response to a U.S. Navy ship sailing near the disputed Fiery Cross...
Police in eastern China have raided two fake jellyfish workshops, saying more than 10 tonnes is thought to have made its way into local food markets.
Such cases involve a Chinese company registering a high-profile Western name to benefit by forcing the company to either buy it back or take the matter to court.
A new law gives broad powers to China’s police in regulating and surveilling the activities of foreign NGOs in China. The law would require foreign groups including foundations, charities, advocacy organizations, and academic exchange programs to...
Hanscom Smith, the U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, marrying Eric Lu in San Francisco has generated interest in China.
