China launched plans to drill for oil in a disputed region of the East China Sea as anti-Japan protests were held across the country on the national holiday remembering the 1931 invasion.
A Chinese prison on Sept. 9 released Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese human rights legal activist who has finished serving a four-year sentence for “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
Thousands of coal trucks and other vehicles are backed up for 75 miles on a highway in northern China. In a recent monster-jam on the Beijing-Tibet highway, motorists were immobilized for five days.
Hundreds of Taiwanese indigenous villagers protested in Taipei against the government’s resettlement plans ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disastrous Typhoon Morakot.
Eight have been arrested following a clash between villagers and workers at a coal mine in Shaanxi province. Control of the village-owned mine was usurped by private investors.
The US and China are holding dueling military maneuvers in the Yellow Sea—just as it has been fouled by the worst oil spill in China’s history, following a pipeline blast at the port of Dalian.
A Chinese farmer resorted to the use of improvised rockets to fend off demolition crews sent to evict him from his lands to make way for the construction of commercial buildings.
A Chinese appeals court upheld the conviction of earthquake activist Tan Zuoren who was sentenced in February to five years in prison on subversion charges.
As tensions mount with North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama reversed himself and accepted Washington’s demands that he honor a 2006 agreement to keep US Marines on Okinawa.
Rights groups are calling on Beijing police to conduct a search for missing activist attorney Gao Zhisheng, who has apparently disappeared within the Chinese prison system.
Chinese rights activist Liu Xiabo, who for 20 years has called for an investigation into the Tiananmen Square massacre, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on subversion charges.
A Chinese court sentenced human rights activist Huang Qi, a critic of the government’s handling of the Sichuan earthquake, to three years in prison for illegally holding state secrets.
