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Shanghai restaurants offer secret dining, 'hire' customers for the night

Shanghai restaurants offer secret dining, 'hire' customers for the night

Many restaurants face closure after weeks of high rents and scant income during COVID-19 lockdown, restrictions.

'After the Apple Daily shut down, I couldn't write another word'

'After the Apple Daily shut down, I couldn't write another word'

One year after Hong Kong's Apple Daily was forced to close, a reporter remembers the night of its final goodbye.

Interview: Nury Turkel to ‘call China out’ for atrocities against Uyghurs, others

Interview: Nury Turkel to ‘call China out’ for atrocities against Uyghurs, others

The new religious freedom chair takes up lead role as ‘immigrant and indirect victim of the Uyghur genocide.’

Tortured dissident Xu Zhiyong stands trial in China's Shandong for 'subversion'

Tortured dissident Xu Zhiyong stands trial in China's Shandong for 'subversion'

The trial comes amid allegations that Xu and rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi were tortured while in detention.

China steps up anti-NATO rhetoric ahead of Madrid summit, citing 'Cold War' ethos

At the same time, Beijing is telling Europeans that Beijing doesn't support Russia's war in Ukraine.

Protest in Malawi over Chinese video showing children saying anti-Black racial slur

Protest in Malawi over Chinese video showing children saying anti-Black racial slur

Zambian immigration say they have arrested video-maker Lu Ke amid concerns he may yet avoid being brought to book.

A small group of people gather outside the now-empty headquarters of Jimmy Lai's Next Digital media empire on June 23, 2022, a year after its flagship pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily printed its last edition.

Former journalists for Hong Kong's folded Apple Daily take reporting to social media

2022-06-24

One year after the paper closed its doors amid a probe by national security police, former staff are undeterred.

A resident of Yingde city in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong takes refuge from widespread flooding on a roof, June 23, 2022.

Residents trapped by floods in China's Guangdong after heavy rains batter region

2022-06-23

Residents of Yingde city on the Bei river say they are trapped in their homes with not enough relief supplies.

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Lithuania’s courtship of Taiwan rubs China the wrong way

Lithuania’s courtship of Taiwan rubs China the wrong way

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80,000 tons of Chinese diplomacy

80,000 tons of Chinese diplomacy

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Shanghai citizens bang pots and pans to protest COVID-19 lockdown

China's Hebei province moves to suppress media reporting in wake of Tangshan attacks

China's Hebei province moves to suppress media reporting in wake of Tangshan attacks

The government launches a campaign against 'fake journalists,' 'fake news' to suppress reporting, journalists say.

An analysis by the rights group Safeguard Defenders of figures released by the United Nations' refugee agency showing that the number of Chinese nationals seeking political asylum overseas has skyrocketed in the decade since Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping took power in 2012.

Number of Chinese nationals seeking asylum grows tenfold under Xi Jinping

The sharpest rise has come despite growing travel bans under Beijing's zero-COVID policy.

Police attempt to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan - who reported on Wuhan's Covid-19 outbreak and placed under detention since May - went on trial in Shanghai, Dec. 28, 2020.

Social media comments express 'shock' over Tangshan police's treatment of reporters

Hong Kong's Chief Executive-elect John Lee (front C) poses for a photo with his newly-appointed cabinet at the central government headquarters in Hong Kong, June 19, 2022.

Hong Kong's new leadership to keep up hard line on dissent, political opposition

Detained human rights defenders Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, who are set to go on trial this month, n an undated photo.

Charges against citizens' movement leader Xu Zhiyong 'trumped up': lawyers

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After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, eyes on Xi Jinping and Taiwan

After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, eyes on Xi Jinping and Taiwan

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