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.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Tokyo despite a heavy police presence during Barack Obama’s visit to demand an end to US bases under the banner “Break up the Japan-US summit.”
Reading past the headlines in the notorious the Chongqing corruption trial reveals that the crime machine served as local enforcers for post-socialist China’s new landed oligarchy.
Five are dead after club-wielding thugs attacked residents of Baijiamao village in China’s Shanxi province who were occupying a coal mine they claim was illegally privatized.
Protesters broke into a smelting works in China’s Shaanxi province, smashing trucks and tearing down fences, following a government report documenting lead poisoning in hundreds of local children.
Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei says he was roughed up and detained by police when he tried to attend the trial of rights advocate Tan Zuoren, who has been charged with subversion.
Chinese human rights group Gongmeng announced that its co-founder, prominent attorney Xu Zhiyong, was arrested at his home four days ago and has not been heard from since.
A helicopter was used for the first time to help local police hunt poppy plantations in suburban Beijing. The chopper was deployed around mountainous areas in Yanqing district.
North Korea’s second nuclear test has won global headlines—while calls by the US State Department earlier this month for Israel to abandon nuclear weapons went unnoticed by the world media.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said May 12 that President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will discuss a possible peace treaty between the two nations at a G8 summit in Italy in July. Putin spoke at a… Read moreRussia, Japan to renew talks on WWII peace treaty at G8 summit
The US March 9 vowed to keep up military surveillance in waters off China and protested what it called harassment one day earlier of a US surveillance ship operated by civilian contractors for the Navy’s Military Sealift Command. The Pentagon… Read moreSabres rattle in South China Sea incident
