投稿者: Helen Davidson in Taipei
Screenings cancelled one day after release following anger over pun seen as racially offensiveThe fantasy film Monster Hunter has been pulled from Chinese cinemas one day after its release after a scene where characters make a pun with the words “knees…
Joseph Wu says Beijing is seeking to expand its ‘authoritarian order’ and calls for ‘like-minded’ nations to act together to protect TaiwanThe international community must join together in resisting China’s expansionism and preventing an invasion of Ta…
Chinese official says article labelling it as biggest threat to democracy since WW2 is ‘concoction of lies’China has rejected as a “concoction of lies” an incendiary article by the US’s most senior intelligence official, who labelled China the biggest …
Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam also sentenced over pro-democracy protest at police HQ last yearThe high-profile Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong will spend more than a year in jail over an unauthorised protest outside police headquarters in June last year, a Ho…
After fleeing Hong Kong for Taiwan, Lam Wing-kee speaks of the danger the island faces and the ordeal of his detention in ChinaLam Wing-kee leans forward in his chair, answering quickly and sharply to issue a warning to the people of his new home, Taiw…
Amid Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong, publisher says joining clubs to discuss free speech and democracy has again become an act of resistance In the early 1950s in Taiwan, 19-year-old Tsai Kun-lin was arrested and jailed after joining a book club. The…
Chinese president told future counterpart he hoped two countries would ‘uphold sprit of non-conflict, focus on cooperation’The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US election, leaving just a handful of world leader…
Chief executive says in annual address the city’s problems driven by ‘external forces’ and pandemicHong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the crackdown on opposition by her government and Beijing, and praised the widely criticised nation…
Chongqing consul-general Stephen Ellison jumped into river to save university studentA British diplomat who rescued a Chinese woman from a river earlier this month has been presented with a red velvet banner as a way of thanks.Stephen Ellison, the cons…
Joshua Wong urges everyone to ‘hang in there, add oil’ as he, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam are taken away ahead of sentencing next weekHong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, and Ivan Lam face the prospect of jail after pleading guilty to charges rela…
Countries emphasise potential for cooperation and future partnerships, which Beijing opposesTaiwan and the United States have held their first high-level meetings under a new economic dialogue, inking a five-year agreement and pledging future cooperati…
Sinopharm chairman claims there has not been a single case of infection after inoculation of officials, students and workers heading overseasAlmost a million people in China have taken an emergency Covid-19 vaccine that is still in its testing phase, t…
Amid ongoing unrest, judge calls for establishment of independent complaints system The Hong Kong government breached its bill of rights on protection from torture and cruel treatments by failing to provide an independent mechanism for complaints about…
Weixin authorities had pledged to destroy pets over repeated rule breachesA Chinese county has been forced to reassess a a ban on people walking their dogs in public after the extreme attempt to stop pet-related incidents and disputes triggered an angr…
Zhang Zhan was arrested more than six months ago after reporting on the outbreakA Chinese citizen journalist detained since May for reporting on the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan is facing up to five years in jail after being formally indicted on cha…