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.
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.
