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China celebrates President Xi in massive exhibition
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
Thousands of people thronged an exhibition in Beijing celebrating Xi's "New Era" just days before a Party Congress at which the country's political elite are ex...
UN 'alarmed' by sentencing of minors under Hong Kong security law
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
The first minors convicted under the national security law were sentenced Saturday to detention in a training centre by a judge who said their calls to overthro...
UN rights vote Pyrrhic victory for China, say campaigners
Oct 08, 2022 (AFP)
A bombshell United Nations report into China's Xinjiang region, published on August 31, found torture allegations were credible and cited possible crimes agains...
First minors sentenced under Hong Kong security law
Oct 08, 2022 (AFP)
A 16-year-old girl and three 17-year-olds were members of a little-known pro-independence group that called itself "Returning Valiant" and promoted a violent up...
Hong Kong online radio host jailed for 'seditious' broadcasts
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
Beijing has carried out a sweeping political crackdown in Hong Kong after the Chinese finance hub saw huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests three ye...
Xi's 'final purge' ahead of Chinese Communist Party congress
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
When he became leader a decade ago, Xi vowed to root out dishonest officials, both senior "tigers" and low-ranking "flies". More than 1.5 million officials have...
'Nobody dares speak out': Exiled Chinese writer decries censorship
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
But after a decade of diminishing freedom of speech under President Xi Jinping, he could not publish in his own country and was eventually forced into exile. Hi...
'Malign influence': China's cultural institutes under growing scrutiny
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
China has set up hundreds of Confucius Institutes -- named after the ancient Chinese philosopher -- in more than 150 countries in less than two decades, accordi...
Poverty, climate, space: China's progress in 10 years under Xi
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
On the brink of securing a third term, the president can boast of several achievements in his first 10 years in power, though some do come with caveats. Here AF...
Xi decade reshapes China's military, and the region
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
With China's neighbours now rushing to keep pace, Xi's next five-year term is likely to see a quickening Asia-Pacific arms race. From South Korea developing a b...
Solomons says it will not 'choose sides' between US, China
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
The Solomons' foreign minister, Jeremiah Manele, was quizzed by reporters in New Zealand about his country's reported qualms over the joint statement, signed in...
Xi's 'Chinese Dream' flickers in one Beijing neighbourhood
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
He has even jumped the fence of China's restrictive residency rules to move from eastern Shandong province to the capital, near the middle-class neighbourhood o...
China since the founding of the Communist Party
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
- July 1921: Founded in secret - In the summer of 1921, Mao Zedong and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai covertly establish the party and start ...
How China's civil society collapsed under Xi
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
Now, 10 years into President Xi Jinping's rule, community organisations such as Charles's have been dismantled and hopes of a rebirth crushed. Charles has fled ...
Hong Kong authorities reject Jimmy Lai request for UK lawyer
Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)
Lai and a group of executives from the now shuttered Apple Daily newspaper are being prosecuted for "colluding with foreign forces", an offence under a new secu...
Hong Kong journalists union head charged before overseas trip
Sep 19, 2022 (AFP)
Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), was arrested earlier this month over a dispute with two officers who asked to see his ide...
Hong Kongers rush to learn new skills ahead of life abroad
Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)
Savvy businesses have started offering crash courses in subjects like home repair and hairdressing, capitalising on a wave of people departing Hong Kong as Chin...
Malaysian firm makes surprise bid for Macau gaming licence
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
The former Portuguese colony is the only territory in China where casinos are allowed, and issues just six operating concessions for a multibillion-dollar indus...
Sri Lankan 'white elephant' Chinese tower to open
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
The 350-metre (1,155-feet) Lotus Tower -- visible from all over Colombo and built for an estimated $113 million -- has been plagued by corruption claims since c...
Hong Kong jails five for sedition over children's books
Sep 10, 2022 (AFP)
They join a growing list of residents jailed under a colonial-era sedition offence which authorities have deployed alongside a national security law introduced ...
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