投稿者: Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
Woman wins visiting rights to see daughter, but not son, in first recognition that child can have two legal mothersA woman fighting a landmark LGBT custody battle in China said she “still has faith for the future” after winning the right to make monthl…
Former governor speaks out after appeal court upholds convictions of seven activists over 2019 protestChris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, has decried as “unjust” a decision by the Chinese city’s top court to uphold the conviction of Jimmy L…
Pro-democracy campaign group finds exports of goods to Russia, vital to its war efforts, roughly doubled in a yearHong Kong has become a global trade hub for “the world’s most brutal regimes”, according to a report examining the city’s role in facilita…
Case raises questions about complicity of western financial institutions in persecution of Chinese government criticsTwo exiled pro-democracy Hong Kong activists have been blocked from accessing their pensions, depriving them of tens of thousands of US…
App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandalAn app that allows users to track trucks across China has been disabled after a scandal in which reporters discovered that tankers used to transport fuel we…
Food safety scandal exposed by state-run newspaper has implicated several major Chinese firmsA food safety scandal has caused mounting public outrage in China days before a high-level Chinese Communist party meeting at which leaders will try to boost c…
Country on track reach 1,200GW of installed wind and solar capacity by end of 2024 – six years ahead of Beijing’s targetThe amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined, a repo…
US firm’s move, amid Beijing-Washington tensions, sparks rush to lure users to homegrown modelsAt the World AI Conference in Shanghai last week, one of China’s leading artificial intelligence companies, SenseTime, unveiled its latest model, SenseNova 5…
Li Shangfu, who vanished from public life last year, and Wei Fenghe accused of accepting gifts and facilitating benefitsThe Chinese Communist party has expelled two former defence ministers for corruption, including Li Shangfu, who disappeared from pub…
The three British judges still on territory’s top bench under pressure to quit after two others stepped down last weekPressure is increasing on the last remaining British judges who sit in Hong Kong’s top court to resign, after two senior justices step…
Democracy campaigners welcome move by Lord Sumption and Lord Collins, who cited political situation in statementTwo of the last remaining British judges to sit on Hong Kong’s top court have resigned, with one citing the political situation in the forme…
Jeremy Clarkson’s reality TV show has particular appeal for young people with no experience of farmingTo one Chinese reviewer, Jeremy Clarkson is “a stupid old British man with too much money who farmed for a year without harvesting anything”. To anoth…
Taiwan’s first female president has presided over big social changes, but her main legacy is the cultivation of the island’s rising prominence on the world stageTaiwan’s new president takes office as China says independence and peace ‘like water and fi…