投稿者: Helen Davidson in Taipei
At least four people charged with national security offences taken to hospital after long court delaysA bail hearing for 47 campaigners, election candidates and activists charged with national security offences in Hong Kong has resumed after at least f…
Pro-democracy group accused of organising unofficial election last July in largest crackdown on campaignersNearly every main voice of dissent in Hong Kong is now in jail or exile, after Hong Kong police charged 47 pro-democracy campaigners and politici…
Written by and starring comedian Jia Ling, the film has started a conversation about mother’s love and women’s identityA Chinese comedian’s directoral debut about a woman who travels back in time to see her dead mother has become the fourth highest gro…
Wave of migration comes amid worsening crackdown on freedoms following the introduction of Beijing’s national security lawTaiwan issued nearly twice as many residence permits to Hongkongers in 2020 compared with the previous year, new government data h…
Case is believed to be the first to set a monetary value on housework since the implementation of a new civil codeA Chinese divorce court has ordered a man to pay his wife the equivalent of US $7,700 as compensation for housework during their five-year…
All election participants will have to swear allegiance or face five-year ban under bill to be tabled next monthHong Kong’s government has announced electoral changes requiring office-holders to pledge and maintain an oath of loyalty to Hong Kong and B…
The men – plus one teenager living overseas – were targeted for allegedly posting ‘defamatory’ material about soldiers who died in clashes last yearChinese authorities have arrested at least six people, and is targeting a teenager living overseas, for …
Strict rules and government enticements prevent majority from making annual trip homeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe number of trips made on the first day of China’s lunar new year travel period has plunged by 74% compar…
The conversation came hours after the US president announced a new Pentagon taskforce on China Joe Biden has affirmed the US’s tough line on China’s human rights abuses and regional expansionism in his first phone call with president Xi Jinping since t…
Geng Xiaonan guilty of publishing illegal titles after she made comments backing Beijing critic Xu Zhangrun A Chinese publisher who spoke out in support of a dissident academic has been jailed for three years in Beijing after she pleaded guilty to ille…
Theories including virus jumping from animal to human or via frozen food being explored by team in ChinaCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization team that visited Wuhan to investigate the origins of the …
Media mogul is accused of foreign collusion and is the highest profile figure arrested under the national security lawHong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai will remain in jail after the city’s highest court sided with authorities t…
US social media platform that allows users to discuss sensitive subjects falls foul of China’s censorsChinese authorities have blocked domestic access to the audio-only social media app Clubhouse after it attracted untold numbers of Chinese people to u…
Animation features an owl teaching young children about the need for the controversial law in crackdown on educationHong Kong students as young as six will be taught about the national security law under a dramatic overhaul of the education curriculum….
More than 180 organisations want countries to skip event as a way of demonstrating their opposition to China’s rights recordMore than 180 human rights organisations have called for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in protest against C…