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A Chinese government official of Tibetan ethnicity who approved the destruction of a huge Buddha statue died after falling from the fifth floor of a mall in Chengdu, according to a statement issued by local Chinese authorities and two sources inside Tibet.
The disregard of human rights by many governments in pursuit of short-term strategic goals is “emboldening” abusive regimes around the world and contributing to global instability in the long term, this year’s annual world report by Human Rights Watch says.
Chinese migrants and students are still entering the country in greater numbers than ever before, despite the high geopolitical tensions between Beijing and Washington this year.
The death toll from a fire at a China-owned nickel smelter in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province has risen to 18, with 44 others injured, officials said Tuesday.
Most of the North Koreans who escape to China are women, and they can become easy targets for human traffickers. Some end up being sold into marriages, sex work or other forms of servitude.
The trial of pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai is underway in Hong Kong. Henry Ridgwell spoke to Lai’s son and his international legal team about the threats and intimidation they faced in the days leading up to the trial.He
Chinese students make up the largest foreign student population in the United States. That figure, however, has slightly decreased. Elizabeth Lee of VOA has more on some reasons of this drop and what some Chinese students say about their experiences studying in the United States.
Although experts continue to debate over the impact of loans and trade between China and Kenya, the Asian country’s embassy in Nairobi, the capital of East Africa, recently launched a food festival with the goal of strengthening the cultural ties between the two.
Uyghurs marked the one-year anniversary of a deadly fire in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi with vigils over the weekend, demanding accountability for the tragedy that they say killed as many as 44 people, four times higher than the official death toll of 10.
Nanjing dissident journalist Sun Lin, who used the pen name Jie Mu, has died following a raid by state security police on his home last week, Radio Free Asia has learned.