投稿者: Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
Flights and trains cancelled as heavy snow and freezing rain leave many stranded during busiest travel periodMillions of people in China have had their annual visit home for lunar new year disrupted by blizzards and freezing rain, with delayed or cance…
Exclusive: Politicians say chemicals producer ‘appears to be implicated’ in abuses of minorities in Chinese provinceThe German chemicals producer BASF “appears to be implicated in gross abuses” of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and should withdraw from the Chines…
Ten people extradited on Tuesday accused of being key figures in fraud involving victims of traffickingMyanmar has extradited 10 people, including notorious warlords, to China, where they are wanted for their alleged role in running abusive online and …
Legislation will further erode differences between legal systems of Hong Kong and mainlandA new law giving Chinese courts the authority to enforce rulings in commercial disputes in Hong Kong comes into effect on Monday, further reducing the barriers be…
UK, US and others use universal periodic review to speak out over Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong KongThe UK, the US and several other countries criticised China’s human rights record on Tuesday as the country was subjected to rare scrutiny of its policies at…
Authorities could use 2tn yuan from offshore accounts of state firms to buy shares after big falls in stocksChinese markets have lifted following a report suggesting that Beijing policymakers are scrambling to mobilise billions of yuan from state-owned…
Presidential vote will have far-reaching consequences and set tone for US-China relationsChina is the least of our problems, say Taiwan’s voters on eve of electionIn a bumper year of elections, a small archipelago of 24 million people will take part in…
Campaigners say testing is among methods used to surveil people in the tightly controlled regionThe US biotech company Thermo Fisher has halted sales of its DNA identification kits in Tibet, nearly five years after it made a similar commitment about th…
Analysts suggest popularity of A Guilty Conscience is down to portrayal of recent abuses in judicial systemHong Kong’s highest grossing Chinese language film of all time is a courtroom drama exploring themes of power and justice in a city where many fe…
Beijing steps up its efforts to tighten control of what is taught in its classrooms, deterring western teachers from working in the countryA new “patriotic” education law is set to put a squeeze on British schools in China as Beijing steps up its effor…
Exclusive: Study published in 2019 used blood and saliva samples from 203 Uyghur and Kazakh people living in Xinjiang capitalConcerns have been raised that academic publishers may not be doing enough to vet the ethical standards of research they publis…
The 22-year-old says his probation conditions meant he was under surveillance and could not workOne of the youngest people to be jailed under Hong Kong’s national security law has fled to the UK, where he claimed asylum in the early hours of Thursday m…
US congressional commission has called for Li Qiaochu’s release, citing reports she needs urgent medical treatmentLi Qiaochu, a human rights activist detained for nearly three years in China, has gone on trial in Shandong province charged with “incitin…