Chinese rights lawyer incommunicado after writing to Li Keqiang over travel ban
A prominent Chinese rights attorney is missing, believed detained, after he planned to attend an event linked to Human Rights Day at the EU representative...
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Chinese traditional medicines increasingly contaminated by chemicals: experts
Roots, dried fruits, leaves and berries used in traditional Chinese medicine preparations are increasingly contaminated with chemicals, including pesticides and preservatives, experts told RFA during...
Record low turnout expected in first Hong Kong election under Beijing’s rules
Voters look set to stay away from the weekend’s legislative elections in Hong Kong in record numbers, despite wall-to-wall government propaganda urging them to cast...
US warns of ‘aggression’, China holds more live-fire exercises in South China Sea
The Chinese military has been holding more live-fire drills in the contested South China Sea this week, state media reported, while accusing the United States...
2,500 people flee to Thailand amid clashes between Myanmar forces, anti-junta groups
Thailand is giving shelter to some 2,500 Burmese who fled from fighting between Myanmar junta forces and Karen rebels in Mae Htaw Thalay, a borderland...
Western nations condemn recent jailing of dissidents in Vietnam
Western nations this week condemned Vietnam’s jailing of four dissidents, including land-rights activists and an award-winning journalist, calling their sentences an attempt to stifle free...
Myanmar’s junta confident Cambodian PM Hun Sen will repair ASEAN relations as chair
Myanmar’s junta is confident that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will repair its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), but analysts say...
Beaten detainees who joined ‘Silent Strike’ protest denied medical aid
Authorities at Yangon’s Insein Prison have refused to allow medical treatment to nearly 90 detainees who were brutally beaten a week ago during a nationwide...
University president warns Chinese students not to harass other Chinese on campus
A U.S. university president who is a former governor of Indiana has condemned Chinese nationalist students in his state who harassed a Chinese pro-democracy graduate...
Turnout plummets as Hong Kongers choose among China-approved ‘patriotic’ candidates
Less than a third of registered voters turned out to vote in elections for Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) on Sunday, in the first election to...
