Ailing rights activist Huang Qi, who is serving a 12-year jail term in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan for “leaking state secrets,” has once more been denied a visit from his lawyer, Radio Free Asia has learned.
High school student Hu Xinyu, whose body was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area near his school, died by suicide using shoelaces, police investigating his death announced on Thursday.
Kiribati said it would rejoin a diplomatic grouping of Pacific Island countries this year, potentially ending a rift that raised questions about the relevance of the Pacific Islands Forum at a time of increased U.S.-China rivalry in the region.
Chinese police have found the body of a teenager who had been missing for more than three months hanging in a grain warehouse a few minutes’ walk from his school, one of a slew of young people reported missing around China in recent months.
China has shut down the social media accounts of hundreds of people recently released from prison in a bid to deny an online platform to “illegal and unethical” people, the country’s audiovisual regulator said.
Tens of thousands of Chinese students studying overseas on government-backed scholarships are required to sign a document pledging loyalty to the ruling Communist Party, as well as putting up guarantors who could be forced to repay their funding should they break the agreement, before arriving at overseas universities, Radio Free Asia has learned.
As a result of Beijing’s relaxed zero-COVID policies, millions of Chinese people are planning trips to see relatives as the Lunar New Year approaches. The festivities marking the occasion, which many Asian people will celebrate on Sunday
The brother of an imprisoned Tibetan businessman has posted videos of himself pleading with authorities to allow relatives to visit his jailed sibling, including a protest he staged in front of the prison in the western Chinese autonomous region where the younger brother, who is in poor health, is detained.
The leaders of Papua New Guinea and Australia say they want negotiations for a wide-ranging security treaty between the two countries to be completed by the end of April.
Dhaka wants good relations with both Beijing and Washington but striking a balance between the two superpowers is a challenge, Bangladesh’s foreign minister said Tuesday after meeting new Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang.