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China and Thailand kick off joint air force drills
Aug 14, 2022 (AFP)
The "Falcon Strike" exercise comes after China's biggest-ever military drills around Taiwan, which were conducted in retaliation to a visit there by US House Sp...
Two jailed for clash that led to rare Hong Kong protest death
Aug 12, 2022 (AFP)
Luo Chang-qing, a 70-year-old cleaner, died from a blow to the head during a border town confrontation where democracy protesters and government loyalists hurle...
Hong Kong sees record population drop as emigration rises
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
The finance hub's population started shrinking in 2020 for the first time since the SARS epidemic in 2003 -- and the drop-off showed no signs of stopping, accor...
Chinese court rejects appeal in landmark #MeToo case
Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)
Zhou Xiaoxuan stepped forward in 2018 to accuse popular state TV host Zhu Jun of forcibly kissing and groping her during her 2014 internship at the broadcaster....
New Hong Kong chief among world's highest-paid politicians
Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)
The government announced this week that its economy has tipped into a technical recession, after being battered by the pandemic, mounting interest rates and wea...
Key Hong Kong court ruling to lift lid on national security cases
Aug 02, 2022 (AFP)
The security law was imposed by Beijing after huge democracy protests and has largely snuffed out dissent in the city. About 100 people have been charged under ...
Hong Kong activists face years in jail for subversion
Jul 29, 2022 (AFP)
China is remoulding Hong Kong in its authoritarian image, using the wide-ranging security law to silence dissent. The latest international criticism of the law ...
Demolition looms for historic Shanghai neighbourhood
Jul 29, 2022 (AFP)
Laoximen or "old West Gate" -- named for its position in Shanghai's 16th-century defensive walls -- was once the city's cultural centre. Built around the site o...
Dalai Lama urges compassion 'despite what China has done'
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader is in the cold desert region -- which borders China -- on his first visit outside the northern Indian city of Dharamshala ...
Asia stocks rise as Alibaba boosts tech, eases pre-Fed nerves
Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)
A shock cut in US retail titan Walmart's profit outlook fanned concerns that surging inflation and rising borrowing costs are hammering consumer spending and co...
China court tosses case of single woman barred from freezing eggs
Jul 23, 2022 (AFP)
Xu Zaozao took legal action in 2019 after a Beijing hospital refused to freeze her eggs, a procedure only available in China to married couples suffering from i...
Seven Hong Kong 'speedboat fugitives' jailed over Taiwan escape bid
Jul 15, 2022 (AFP)
The seven, aged between 19 and 32, were sentenced to 10 months in prison for perverting the course of public justice -- the first time in Hong Kong that the cha...
Chinese official sacked for negligence, video game addiction
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
Li Qiang, director of the medical emergency center in the historic city of Xi'an, was among officials reprimanded in January over the scandal, which sparked deb...
Proposed US law would say Tibet status unresolved
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
Amid mounting alarm in the United States over the treatment of minorities in the People's Republic of China, the proposed act would state that "the conflict bet...
Macau lockdown begins, Hong Kong mulls health code app
Jul 11, 2022 (AFP)
Share prices of six gaming conglomerates -- Sands China, Galaxy Entertainment, SJM Holdings, Melco International, MGM China and Wynn Macau -- dropped by between...
China detains alleged bank fraud 'gang' after rare mass protests
Jul 11, 2022 (AFP)
Hit hard by the country's economic slowdown, four banks in Henan province have since mid-April frozen all cash withdrawals, leaving thousands of small savers wi...
Trial of Chinese-Canadian tycoon who disappeared in 2017 begins in China
Jul 04, 2022 (AFP)
Xiao vanished from Hong Kong's Four Seasons hotel in January 2017, with local media reporting that he was snatched by mainland Chinese agents -- fuelling fear a...
Xi hails China's rule over Hong Kong at handover anniversary
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
Xi's speech was the finale of a two-day victory lap aimed at celebrating the Chinese Communist Party's control over the once outspoken business hub after author...
John Lee: the former Hong Kong cop Beijing trusts is sworn in
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
"It is the greatest honour for me today to shoulder this historic mission given to me by the central authorities and the people of Hong Kong," Lee said in his i...
China accuses New Zealand of 'misguided' accusations
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
Ardern attended the NATO leaders' summit in Spain this week, saying in a speech Wednesday that China had become "more assertive and more willing to challenge in...
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