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Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, who has been behind bars without trial for three years on “subversion” charges, has issued a defiant statement to the authorities after they repeatedly extended his detention, saying he ‘won’t bow’ to them.
Africa is a cultural melting pot.People with Chinese origin have lived there for a long time. However, Beijing’s investments in the strategically located country have also drawn new Chinese immigrants looking to do business in the island nation.
China is moving ahead with plans to build the world’s largest hydropower dam on Tibet’s longest river despite environmental, water security and displacement concerns raised by India, Bangladesh and Tibetan rights groups.
The British Museum’s use of the term “Xizang” to label Tibetan artifacts in its Silk Roads exhibition has prompted criticism from Tibetans and rights groups who have demanded that the museum remove the Beijing-promoted term and issue a formal apology.
Young people being deceived into forced labor by criminal gangs, primarily involving illegal work in Chinese-controlled special zones in Cambodia, has become a pressing issue not only in Vietnam but across Southeast Asia.
Chinese authorities have arrested a popular Tibetan social influencer and internet entrepreneur in Qinghai province, two people with knowledge of the situation said.
A Tibetan Buddhist monk imprisoned for sending money for prayer offerings to be made to the Dalai Lama and the abbot of India’s Kirti Monastery has been released from jail but remains in poor health, according to two sources in Tibet familiar with the situation.
Prominent Chinese dissident Xu Zhiyong, jailed after penning an open letter calling on President Xi Jinping to step down, has ended his hunger strike in prison, according to social media reports from people close to his family.
A rare video clip that shows North Korean women — dispatched to China as workers — dancing with Chinese men to loud disco music, indicates that they are picking up elements of capitalist culture that would be forbidden in their restrictive home country.
A Tibetan from Sichuan province has made a rare public appeal on Chinese social media, calling on authorities to take action against a company that he accuses of illegally extracting sand and gravel from a local riverbed, Tibetan sources with knowledge of the situation said.