投稿者: Lily Kuo in Beijing
The new rules call for etiquette when it comes to singing the national anthem or raising the nation’s flag China has released new “morality” guidelines for its citizens on everything from civic education and how parents should teach their children to r…
Chief executive denies Beijing is planning to replace her and says she will ‘handle the situation’After five months of protests, Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam has said her government will “tackle the violence head on” as the Asian financial h…
British authorities criticised by nationalist paper as country voices shock at truck fatalitiesChinese citizens have expressed shock, anger and outrage over the deaths of 39 people found in a lorry in the UK and believed to be Chinese nationals, in a c…
Exam will test journalists on president’s teachings on socialism and propagandaChinese journalists will soon be required to pass a test grading their understanding of Xi Jinping Thought, the socialist teachings espoused by the country’s leader.A notice…
Release of food staple comes amid soaring prices and African swine flu epidemicChina will auction 10,000 tonnes of pork from its state reserves as surging prices threaten to mar an important political holiday.The sale on Thursday will be limited to 300…
Advocacy groups say activists in mainland China are being threatened or detained for posting messages of support or retweeting news stories Chen Siming, a 58-year-old Chinese activist, has followed the protests in Hong Kong from afar, feeling inspired …
‘Changsha Three’ formally arrested on suspicion of state subversion amid crackdown on protestsStaff at a small NGO in southern China with links to Hong Kong have been arrested on suspicion of state subversion, as authorities crack down on mainland acti…
Unirule Institute of Economics founded to promote economic and political liberalisation One of China’s only independent thinktanks has been ordered to shut down, another sign of the dramatically shrinking space for public debate under the government of…
Yang, who has been detained for six months, is expected to be charged with endangering national securityAustralian writer Yang Hengjun is expected to be formally charged with endangering national security, according to his lawyer. Yang, a Chinese publi…
Beijing’s representatives abroad are harnessing social media to confront critics Chinese envoys are experimenting with a new kind of Trump-style public diplomacy – Twitter spats.Twitter is banned in China, but Chinese diplomats abroad, not traditionall…
Critics says Ji Sizun’s fate shows prison terms in China are increasingly becoming death sentencesIn June, Ji Sizun received the news that he had won a prestigious human rights distinction, the Cao Shunli Memorial Award, in honour of the veteran Chines…
Steep fines and social credit penalties face people violating complex waste sorting rules – but some say the answer is all about pigsFor the last two weeks, Shanghai residents have grappled with a singular question: “What kind of trash are you?”The que…