Two bullet trains collided on 23 July in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, killing at least 38 people and injuring 192. In a country where people don't...
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Who is Tashi Rabten?
A few days ago the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) reported that China had sentenced Tibetan writer Tashi Rabten to four years in prison for...
Ahead of Party anniversary, China poisons the internet
Today, 1 July, is the Communist Party's 90th birthday. In celebration, Chinese web censors have been working feverishly to tighten their control of...
Hu Jia released but not free
After serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for inciting subversion, Chinese activist Hu Jia was sent home on Sunday. But like Ai Weiwei, who...
Ai Weiwei’s jailed colleagues are freed
When dissident artist Ai Weiwei was freed last Wednesday, his four associates were also nabbed back in April, were disturbingly absent. Now it seems...
Ai Weiwei returns home
After 81 days in detention, the detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has finally been allowed to go home. His mother Gao Ying didn't sleep last night,...
How to stay safe online in the wake of the Gmail hack
The theft of hundreds of Gmail account passwords last week by Chinese hackers from Jinan city in Shandong province left many of us feeling...
China tightens TV censorship
A vague directive last month for domestic TV stations not to focus solely on “entertainment” inspired the Financial Times to dig deeper. Last week...
China controls news of Mongolian protests
The deaths of two ethnic Mongolians, allegedly killed by Han Chinese, in China’s Inner Mongolia region in May, has sparked the worst riots this...
Journalist punished for writing editorial about Ai Weiwei
Journalist Song Zhibiao has been suspended by the Southern Metropolis Daily for writing an editorial remembering the Sichuan earthquake, referring...