An 11-year-old girl from China's Shandong province was abducted and sold as a bride for 6,000 Renminbi. According to media reports, in 2018 a couple from the city of Weihai, in China's Shandong province, reported to the police that their 11-year-old daughter had gone missing on August 28. For months law enforcement agencies looked for … Continue reading 11-year-old girl sold as bride in China
Founder and chairman of tech giant Foxconn (鴻海) Kuo T'ai-ming (郭台銘) announced on April 17 that he will run for president in Taiwan's 2020 elections, citing a dream in which Taiwan's popular sea goddess Mazu urged him to do more for the Taiwanese people. In the morning of April 17 Kuo visited the Daoist Ts'u-hui … Continue reading Foxconn founder Kuo T’ai-ming says he’s running for president after sea goddess Mazu came to him in a dream
Wang Zhimin (王志民), Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee, welcomed the guilty verdict of 9 democracy activists and claimed that China's national security supersedes Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy. Wang made the remarks … Continue reading China’s national security more important than Hong Kong’s autonomy, says director of Beijing’s liaison office
Ran Xiang, a former Chinese Communist Party propagandist who called herself "chairman of the wumao party", has given in interview tearfully complaining about the detention of her husband Yang Hengjun and calling on the Australian government to help them. Yang Hengjun, a writer and former Chinese official with Australian citizenship, was arrested in January upon … Continue reading Former Chinese Communist propagandist Ran Xiang asks for Australia’s help to save her detained husband
Hong Kong's June 4 Memorial Museum, which commemorates the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, was vandalized days before its scheduled re-opening. On April 7 at around 10 a.m. workers entered the museum, which is located in Hong Kong's busy district of Mong Kok, and found that the lock was missing, chairs, cardboards, power sockets, main switches … Continue reading Hong Kong museum dedicated to 1989 Tiananmen Square Crackdown vandalized
A Chinese university professor has been reportedly denounced by student informants for "opposing the (Chinese Communist) Party and violating the constitution" (反党违宪) amid a growing crackdown on free speech on Chinese campuses. According to media reports, Lü Jia (吕嘉), associate professor at the School of Marxism of the prestigious Tsinghua University, in China's capital Beijing, … Continue reading Chinese university professor denounced by students for ‘opposing the Party and violating the constitution’
Two Chinese activists who in 2016 sold liquor commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been given suspended jail sentences. Chengdu Intermediate People’s Court found Fu Hailu (符海陆) and Zhang Juanyong (张隽勇) guilty of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble" (寻衅滋事), a catch-all phrase used by the Chinese Communist regime to crack down on activists … Continue reading Chinese court sentences activists who sold liquor commemorating 1989 Tiananmen crackdown to three years in prison
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has deleted from its official Weibo account a poem by Wang Jingwei, a revolutionary leader and politician who collaborated with the Japanese during World War II. According to media reports, on March 28 the PLA published a poem by Wang Jingwei on Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblogging platform. Wang Jingwei, … Continue reading China’s army deletes poem by ‘traitor’ Wang Jingwei
On Wednesday a Taiwanese diplomat was expelled at China's request from a meeting held by the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Trade and Industry. Wang Chung-I (汪忠一), director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Prague, the de facto embassy of Taiwan in the Czech Republic, was requested to leave the meeting, to which he … Continue reading China forced Taiwanese representative in the Czech Republic to leave economic conference
(Image by 张瑜 via Wikimedia Commons) Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu (王宇) was detained by police in Beijing in front of the embassy of the United States on Wednesday. According to media reports, Wang had been invited to attend a seminar on domestic violence that took place on the evening of March 27 inside … Continue reading Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu detained by police in front of US embassy in Beijing
