From Sound Of Hope Radio Network 09/03/2010

A Chinese law school graduate recently sued China’s Ministry of Finance for denying his right, as a taxpayer, to information about the Three Gorges Construction Fund. This is the first time a taxpayer has challenged the Chinese regime.

By Li Xin & Yu Liang 09/03/2010

According to information from the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party, Mr. Wang, once a lecturer at a university in Guizhou Province, China, suffered reprisals and lost his post and his faculty subsidized housing for reporting the president’s corruption to the authority. After several years of Appeal to no avail, he was reduced to begging for his subsistence. He detests the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s corruption. In a recent phone conversation with the volunteers at Service Center, he publicly announced his withdrawal from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

By Tan Hohua 07/02/2010

HONG KONG–Nearly a thousand people chanted “Protect Shen Yun, Protect Hong Kong” during a rally and parade at Edinburgh Place on Jan. 31. Participants included residents, artists, and current and former Hong Kong legislators who gathered to voice their concern that “one country, two systems” was called into question by events that caused the cancellation of Shen Yun performances in Hong Kong.

By Matthew Robertson  07/02/2010

On the one year anniversary of the abduction of renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, a human rights NGO in the U.S. has started a very public campaign for his release.

From NTDTV

The Dalai Lama is set to arrive in the U.S. in two weeks. The Chinese regime has already spoken out in opposition to the visit, saying it could further threaten U.S.-China relations.

By Yu-Xian Geng  22/01/10

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Chinese Vice Minister of Health, Huang Jiefu, visited Taiwan on Jan. 19 to attend the H1N1 Prevention Symposium in Taipei. While attending the symposium, he was confronted with questions related to the allegations of live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China, but avoided answering them.

By Wu Jiaqi & Yu Liang  17/01/10

The H1N1 pandemic-related death toll reported in China's Guangxi Province is the “tip of the iceberg,” according to a staff member at the Department of Health. The Department of Health in Guangxi Province put the total death toll at 12 for the province’s 14 cities as of Jan. 3.

Police said to be probing hate crime in attack on Shen Yun tour bus

By Jason Loftus 17/01/10

A bus driver for the Shen Yun performing arts company discovered slashes on a front tire that could have led to a serious accident, he said Saturday from Montreal. The company had just performed the first of four shows before a full house at Wilfrid-Pelletier Hall in Place des Arts.

By Suman Srinivasan  17/01/10

NEW YORK—Google caused seismic waves in the Internet and business world on Jan. 12 by announcing that it was "no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn."

From Secret China  08/01/10

Stealing, transporting and selling children within an hour in Dongguan county, Guangdong province.

The execution of Akmal Shaikh is Europe's cue to stand up to an abusive one-party state and forget trade

The Independent / 3 January 2010

he new year must see an end to ruthless regimes using human pawns in international relations. After the barbaric execution of Akmal Shaikh, the first execution of a European by China since 1951, the EU's new role in foreign relations, which begins this week, must be shaped by a commitment to its values.

From epoch times 08/01/10

The rapidly emerging and formidable force of Chinese netizens

The Chinese regime has imposed the toughest internet censorship in the sensitive year of 2009 which marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, 10th anniversary of the persecution against Falun Dafa, and the 60th anniversary of communist rule in China.

China has the largest population of Internet users in the world, with over 300 million users in 2009. Despite the tough internet censorship, netizens have become a great force to advocate human rights and monitor government officials. They have successfully put pressure on the regime to convict a malfeasant official who was responsible for the mysterious death of Li Qiaoming in a detention center in Yunnan Province; set rape case waitress Deng Yujiao free; and to sentence a corrupt government official, Zhou Jiugeng, to 11 years in prison on charge of taking bribes. They have also exposed some regime officials for spending public money to travel to Las Vegas.

From NTDTV 07/12/09

They discussed religious freedom, minority rights and political prisoners in China, among other issues. The E.U. Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights held a hearing in Brussels on Tuesday.

By Jason Loftus 07/12/09

Extraordinary extremes have marked Prime Minister Stephen Harper's first China trip. Within two days of touching down, Harper scored a deal to open China's borders to Canadian pork, and then a huge pact to allow China's visitors easy approval to come to Canada, something Canadian governments have been trying fruitlessly to secure for years.

By Charlotte Cuthbertson 07/12/09

In a groundbreaking case, following a two-year investigation, a Spanish judge has accepted charges of genocide and torture in a case filed against five high-ranking CCP officials for their role in the persecution of Falun Gong.

By Genevieve Long 05/11/2009

A virtual wall created for Twitter users to express their thoughts and hopes on the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has been blocked in China.

By Matthew Robertson & Grace Wu  27/10/2009

A China-based human rights group has started a database to track victims of psychiatric abuse in the country.       

By Gu Qing'er  27/10/2009

An ongoing struggle between residents and a local ceramic factory over pollution has erupted in protesting, arrests, and riot police presence. When a dozen resident activists of Paibian Village, Jiedong County, Guangdong Province were arrested the morning of Oct. 22, thousands went to the local regime officials, demanding their release.

From epoch times  27/10/2009

Four Chinese writers are among 37 writers from 19 countries, who have received the prestigious Hellman/Hammett award this year in recognition of their courage in the face of political persecution, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

From NTDTV  27/10/2009

Shi Honghui has been in charge of the labor camps in China’s Guangdong province since 2000. Now, he’s being sued in the U.S. for his alleged role in the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in his jurisdiction.

By Bi Zimo  08/10/2009

Geng He is the wife of prominent Chinese human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng. Gao is known for representing a range of groups being persecuted by the Chinese regime, particularly Falun Gong. Arrested in February, Gao’s current whereabouts are unknown. Geng He and their two children escaped to the U.S. earlier this year.

By Lin Yi 04/10/09

While a massive display honoring the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist regime played out in Beijing on Oct. 1, the Tianguo Marching Band set out through the busy streets of Hong Kong with a vastly different message.

From ntdtv    18/09/2009

This is the aftermath of an overnight surprise attack last Sunday by authorities in Fushan, Shanxi Province.

By Geng He 18/09/2009

Dear Friends,

First of all, I would like to thank you for your concern and loving care. At the same time, I would like to express my sincere respect to all of you!

By Luo Ya and Gu Xiao Hua 03/09/2009

Disgruntled victims of police violence in China are signing an online petition in droves. Human rights activists in Beijing and Shanghai began the petition on Aug. 16 and signatories include lawyers, scholars, website managers, and human rights activists—most of them victims of police violence.

By Lin Yi 03/09/2009

HONG KONG—Qiu Mingwei, a former journalist for the Chinese communist regime's propaganda news paper, The People’s Daily, who fled to Hong Kong last month, announced in a press conference on August 23 that he quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations, making him the first working employee of an organization affiliated with the regime’s Central Propaganda Department to quit the CCP using his real name.

From The Conscience Foundation 21/08/09

It has been ten years since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong. The international community is increasingly concerned about the CCP's human rights abuses and its persecution of religious believers. On July 23, 2009, MP of the Italian Values Party (IDV) Domenico Scilipoti issued a press release in Rome, condemning the CCP's human rights abuses of Falun Gong practitioners. He said the conduct of the CCP is "disgraceful."

By Xin Fei  18/08/2009

It has learned that police in China’s Guangdong Province have been selling anti-Internet censorship software for profit, opening yet another, though unexpected, channel to promote Internet freedom to the Chinese people.

By Xin Fei 18/08/2009

Zhang Lin, a pro-democracy Chinese writer from Anhui Province, was released on August 12. He was arrested in early 2005 and jailed for the crime of 'inciting subversion of state power,' because of his on-line publication of articles.

By Heng He 05/08/2009

Over the last two decades China has famously become the workshop of the world due to the plentiful supply of one resource: cheap labor. The case of Mr. Zhang Haichao helps shed light on how labor costs in China are kept low.

By epoch times 05/08/2009

Chinese police announced the arrest of 319 people suspected to have been involved in the July 5 protest in Urumuqi, the capital of China’s northwestern Xinjiang Province. They were arrested in Urumuqi and other locations across Xinjiang Province, the police said in the official statement announced on CCTV (China Central Television), August 2.

BY NTDTV 05/08/2009

BEIJING—China closed a chemical plant after local residents in central Hunan Province protested against cadmium pollution, which killed two people and affected hundreds of others, media reported on Monday.

By Ben Hedges 29/07/2009

Employees of Jilin province state-owned steel manufacturer Tonghua celebrated on Friday night. It came after authorities agreed to stop an unpopular takeover by another company.

 Epoch times 29/07/2009

Once again, brick factories in China were found to be using slave laborers. This time, there are 32 victims—all mentally disabled.

By Vicky Jiang  23/07/09

Washington D.C.—Over 3000 Falun Gong practitioners from more than 20 countries marched down Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday July 17. July 20, 2009 will mark the 10th year of the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

By Joshua Philipp 16/07/2009

WASHINGTON—More than 2,000 practitioners of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong sat in meditation in front of the Washington Monument with lit candles held in hand.

By Epoch Times Staff   16/07/2009

China petitioned in Beijing on the morning of July 13 about their insufficient pensions, according to a report carried by the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch (CRLW).

By Wang Zhen 11/07/09

The protests of tens of thousands of Uyghurs in front of the Urumchi City Hall took a bloody turn after the protesters were confronted by the Chinese regime’s police on the evening of July 5. The latest official death toll has risen to 184, though Rebiya Kadeer, Chair of the World Uyghurs Congress in exile in the United States, says the actual number of deaths over the past few days could be in the range of thousands.

By Lin Yi and Liang Lusi 03/07/09

HONG KONG—On July 1, 2009, people marched in Hong Kong for the seventh consecutive year in protest of the Chief Executive’s subordination to Beijing and the Hong Kong government’s poor governance. The police imposed many restrictions, beyond the measures they had taken in previous years.

By Wu Xue’er 30/06/09

EPT 20/04/09

On April 14, China’s Ministry of Health announced that 110,000 people have contracted hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in China this year. The current death toll is at 50.

EPT 19/04/09

Beijing was unusually quiet on April 15, a day that marks the 20th anniversary of former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Hu Yaobang’s death. The official ceremony was banned and Tiananmen Square was also closed early.

Epoch Times 13/04/09

On April 7, a blogger on a popular Chinese website exposed corruption by disclosing a document filed by the Resettlement Office of Wenzhou City, an affluent city in southern China. The document listed the names of people who had purchased apartment units from the Resettlement Office at a specially discounted price.

CNA 12/04/09

TAIPEI—On April 8, the Xishui County People’s Court in China’s Quizhou Province held a non-public trial involving a case about public officials who used young schoolgirls as prostitutes. The matter was notorious enough to be talked about in the whole country. Seven suspects, including five public officials, appeared in court for the trial.

Epoch Times 11/04/09

CHEJU, South Korea—2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the persecution against Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and as such, the topic of Falun Gong has been emerging all over the world.

By Gu Qing'er 10/04/09

For seven consecutive days, workers at the Yimian Group in Baoding, Hebei Province, have staged a large-scale strike.

08/04/09 By Long Qiao

Gan Yulan, a woman from a small town in Jianxi Province of China, was blindfolded and forced to have a sterilization operation by local township officials on March 23. Gan told a reporter that she was assaulted by the deputy director of the Local People's Congress on the way to the hospital and was forced to be sterilized without any family members present.

By Gu Qing'er 07/04/09

Several thousand workers in the Hebei Baoding Yimian Group Co., Ltd. marched in protest to Beijing on April 3, after staging a strike towards the end of March. The authorities intercepted most of the workers with a large amount of police.

By han Yi 17/02/09

Hong Kong authorities confirmed on Feb. 7, 2009 that H5N1 virus (“bird flu virus”) tests showed positive results in seven recently found dead birds. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said four of the seven birds, including three chickens and a duck, were in Lantau Island. The were found last week.

Epoch Times 15/02/09

Recently, many mainland media ran high profile reports about Chinese communist regime vice-president Xi Jinping’s unusual criticism of western democratic counties.

Epoch Times 14/02/09

In a recent report released by the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations made over 100 recommendations  requesting the Chinese regime to improve human rights within China. The Beijing regime refused outright to accept 42 recommendations, including the  abolition of the death penalty and providing more freedom of press. This  was the first time that Beijing provided a human rights report to this council and the first time that the council reviewed such a report from China.

By Gisela Sommer 10/02/09

Six months after the Beijing Olympics began on Aug. 8, 2008, Reporters Without Borders urges the Chinese authorities to release all the free speech activists and other citizens still being held in connection with the games.

By Zhu JinDi 30/01/09

By Tong Wenxun 29/01/09

VOA 27/01/09

WASHINGTON—Chinese democracy activist Qin Yongmin has been incarcerated for the past 10 years. His family files annual requests to visit for Chinese New Year but the Chinese authorities have consistently denied his visitation rights.

Reuters 21/01/09

BEIJING—U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration speech has a little twist in translations available on some Chinese websites where his references to communism and dissent have been cut.

Epoch Times 20/01/09

Chen Guangcheng, a blind human rights activist, was refused release from prison despite a deteriorating health condition on Jan. 16., according to the Taiwan-based Central News Agency. Yuan Weijing, Chen’s wife, said the prison’s neglect had led to her husband’s poor health.

Epoch Times 19/01/09

Wang Aihua, the director of Bureau of City Planning of Hefei, said in a TV program that “buying houses is patriotic action.”

Epoch Times 18/01/09

Fifteen lawyers have stepped forward to defend Falun Gong practitioners after the Chengdu People’s Intermediate Court sentenced 11 people, including Falun Gong practitioners and their family members, to prison terms of from 3 to 17 years in October 2008.

By Lin Yi 15/01/09

By Xin Fei 15/01/09

Twenty-two Chinese scholars published an open letter on January 12 to announce their determination to boycott China Central Television (CCTV), China’s largest official television broadcaster, in protest of its brainwashing propaganda.

By Jin Xin 13/01/09

Epoch Times 13/01/09

Epoch Times 11/01/09

By Fang Xiao 11/01/09

Epoh Times 10/01/09

Jan 3 -- Fire dies under China’s once booming manufacturing industry
The Times (Leo Lewis) – China’s vast manufacturing sector, the driving force behind the country’s celebrated economic growth story, is on the brink of technical recession as order books run dry and once humming factories fall silent.

By Gu Qing’er 09/01/08

Reuters 08/01/09

Epoch Times 07/01/09

On the morning of New Year’s Day 2009, the Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Hong Kong and other organizations held a parade and rally at King’s Road Playground in North Point, Hong Kong, to commemorate 47 million Chinese who have quit the CCP.

By Matthias Kehrein and Florian Godovit  07/01/09

The Uighurs, a nine million Muslim minority, residing in Eastern Turkistan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, are one of the worst abused people at the hands of the Chinese regime.

20/12/08 AP

The European Parliament gave a jailed Chinese dissident a one-minute standing ovation on Wednesday as it honored him in absentia with its top human rights award.

Reuters 15/12/08

Epoch Times 12/12/2008

Epoch Times 12/12/2008

A Chinese blogger recently exposed startling facts about China’s pork industry, creating public concern over safety. According to the blogger, the use of cheap growth hormone and other additives may be potentially harmful to human health. The questionable practices used in raising pigs have been a tool for farmers to maximize profit.

BEIJING—The father of a young man who drowned in a Beijing canal after being chased by city officers is demanding video evidence in a rare case against powerful but usually unaccountable law enforcers in Chinese cities.

By Qin Xue 04/12/08

Epoch Times 04/12/08

By Xin Fei 24/11/08

By Zhong Tao 24/11/08

By Gu Qinger 24/11/08

On November 18, 2008, an enormous display of civil unrest unfolded in Longnan City in northwestern Gansu Province. Tens of thousands of residents attempted to attack the communist party headquarters in the city and rioted in the streets, setting official vehicles on fire.

Epoch Times 22/11/08

By Feng RiYao 21/11/08

The Chongqing City Audit Bureau published a report stating many hospitals profited from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Sichuan in May this year.

By Guo Meilan 21/11/08

Epoch Times 10/11/08

By Gu Qinger 09/11/08

Epoch Times 07/11/08

By Ye Wenhua and Wu Cenxi 06/11/08

TAIPEI—Chen Yunlin, chief of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), has already encountered numerous protests and appeals during his scheduled five-day visit to Taiwan. Since his arrival in Taiwan, Falun Gong practitioners have been appealing in the hundreds.

Epoch Times 05/11/08

By Gu Qinger 31/10/08

A man confined to a wheelchair encountered violence when he sought compensation after getting kidney stones from drinking tainted milk in China.

By Fang Xiaocai 30/10/08

Epoch Times 29/10/08

By Fang Xiao 28/10/08

On the evening of October 23, at 10:00 p.m., villagers of Hongsu Village of Jiangxi Province were raided by crime syndicate members allegedly hired by the Green Sea Wood Co., Ltd (The Green Sea Company) of Tonggu County. One villager was killed, dozens were hospitalized and several were in critical condition.

Epoch Times 28/10/08

VOA 27/10/08

Epoch Times 27/10/08

Epoch Times By Gu Xiaohua 22/10/2008

Villagers in southwest China’s Sichuan Province won their case against the local power supply bureau’s coercive land expropriation in February, but still were not given their land, and have not received any compensation for their expropriated farmland.

Radio Free Asia 16/10/08

Epoch Times 15/10/08

Radio Free Asia 15/10/08

By Zhao Zifa 09/10/08

Epoch Times 07/10/08

According to Minghui.net, on Oct. 1, China’s National Day, a large number of writings supporting 43 million withdrawls from the Chinese Communist Party, among other things, were found in a northern Chinese city.

Radio Free China 06/10/08

Police dispersed over 100 parents on September 14 from a ceremony to bemoan children who died in collapsed school buildings during the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province of southwest China. A teacher was reported to have been arrested for writing memorial slogans for the children.

Radio Free China 06/10/08

Reuters 04/09/08

Epoch Times 04/09/08

CHINA, Beijing—Since the beginning of the year, housing markets in many of China’s cities have continued to decline. Beijing’s existing home market has also experienced a decline for two consecutive months in both volume and value. Centaline China Property Research Center recently pointed out that the sell-off of existing homes signaled an upcoming buyers market.

Epoch Times 01/10/08

Guangzhou authorities announced that close to 40 percent of the furniture produced in Guangdong Province, China, fails the quality test.

Epoch Times 01/10/08

By Qiao Qi 30/09/08

By Shi Yu 29/09/08

Epoch Times 29/09/08

Central News Agency 27/09/08

Epoch Times 27/09/08

Epoch Times 26/09/08

Central News Agency 26/09/08

TAIPEI—Heavy rain and landslides since Monday have seriously damaged the area which was hit by the May 12 Sichuan earthquake. The latest toll stands at nine dead, 340 injured, 35 missing in Beichuan County, and eight dead and 38 missing in Mianyang City.

By Charlotte Cuthbertson 25/09/08

By Wen Long 23/09/08

In early September 2008, China’s official media reported a number of cases of ocean contamination. One example occurred last month in Qingdao City at the sailing venue for the 2008 Olympics.

Epoch Times 23/09/08

By Wen Hua 23/09/08

By Zhang Jianbao 23/09/08

Central News Agency 21/09/08

TAIPEI—The recent slowdown of economic growth in mainland China has resulted in reduced prices for steel. To survive this crisis, the iron and steel industry has been forced to cut production. According to the Hua Xia Times, most companies make such production cuts only in secret, in order to save face.

Epoch Times 20/09/08

Epoch Times 19/09/09

By Maria Zheng 18/09/08

Many might remember an incident where Zhang Danhong, the Chinese editor of Deutsche Welle's CCP-friendly Chinese program, accused Focus program journalist Guenther Baehr of having a Falun Gong background.

Reuters 16/09/08

By Gu Qinger 15/09/08

More than 200 taxi drivers in Chibi City, Hubei Province have been on a strike since September 8 over a management rights dispute with two taxicab companies. The authorities dispatched more than 200 military police to break up the strike, arresting six taxi drivers, and injuring and detaining another driver surnamed Deng for seven days

By Donna Ware and Gary Feuerberg 15/09/08

By Wang Manna 14/09/08

A reporter for The New York Times recently disappeared in mainland China. Zhao Yan, had previously spent three years in prison for charges made against him after he conducted research for a story about the retirement of Jiang Zemin, former Chinese regime leader and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

By Gu Qinger 14/09/08

On September 11, China’s Ministry of Health reported that a tainted baby formula had been linked to kidney stones in dozens of infants and one fatality.

Epoch Times 14/09/08

Feng Yiran 13/09/08

Epochtimes 11/09/08

By Guqing' er 10/09/08

Fang Xiao 08/09/08

By Yan Xiu 08/09/08

Beijing has just spent a huge amount of money in hosting the 2008 Olympic Games. The 2008 Paralympics Games began last Saturday. Many public letters to Paralympics officials and handicapped athletes have shown up on China’s unofficial Internet sites. There have also been disabled people organizations calling for demonstrations against the Paralympics Games on opening day.

Reuters 06/09/08

BEIJING—Thousands of students attacked a county government office in central China, smashing windows and clashing with riot police, in unrest triggered by a property dispute, a rights group said on Saturday.

By Ji Da 04/09/08

RFA 03/09/2008

Nearly six months after a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, authorities are releasing some Buddhist monks from detention.

Epoch Times 03/09/2008

September 4 marks 113th day since the devastating Sichuan earthquake. It also marked the back-to-school day in mainland China, and also the day China started to lift its nine-year compulsory education fee. While 11,687 schools are in need of reconstruction and the exact casualties from the collapsed school buildings remain unannounced, Sichuan local schools are required to continue charging tuition fees.

By John Kusumi 04/09/2008

Folks, CNN is now caught in its worst nightmare, and I can't even gloat. It's tragic and it may cause lost sleep, the blame game, finger pointing, internal review, infighting, or worse. Congressional hearings may be in order, as an outside investigation.

Ann Pei 03/09/08

According to China’s Ministry of Agriculture, the urban-to-rural average income differential last year was about 9,600 yuan (Approximately US$ 1400), the largest in the last 30 years.

Reuters 03/09/08

Epoch Times 01/09/08

By Sonya Bryskine and Gary Du 01/09/08

By Shi Yu 01/09/08

Reuters 31/08/08

By Qiao Long 31/08/08

zhengjian.org 30/08/08

Epoch Times 30/08/08

Two people died and others were seriously wounded in a bomb attack in Xinjiang Province, China, August 27. The attack was directed at police in Jiash County, Kashi Prefecture, according to an AFP report.

Wen Hua 30/08/08

John Kusumi / 25.08.08

Folks, CNN is now caught in its worst nightmare, and I can't even gloat. It's tragic and it may cause lost sleep, the blame game, finger pointing, internal review, infighting, or worse. Congressional hearings may be in order, as an outside investigation.

By Yan Xiu 29/08/08

By Qiao Long 29/08/08

Epoch Times 29/08/08

Epoch Times 28/08/08

Reuters 28/08/08

Reuters 27/08/08

Epoch Times 27/08/08

The China Earthquake Network Center (CENC) reported that a 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Zhongba County, Xigaze Prefecture in the western region of Tibet on August 25 at 9:22 p.m.

Epoch Times 27/08/08

A huge explosion occurred around 6 a.m. on August 25 in a chemical plant in Guangxi province located in southern China. As of August 26, 16 people have been confirmed dead, 60 people have been hospitalized, and six are missing. Preliminary investigation shows that the accident was caused by negligence towards work safety.

By Sealand Gregory 26/08/08

'They treat us like we are the enemy' -- Chinese petitioners, who have been under increased suppression since the start of the Beijing Olympics, predict that the situation will only get worse after the Games.

Robin Kemker 26/08/08

By Matthew Robertson 25/08/08

The story of a prisoner of conscience in a Beijing labor camp.

Qiao Long 25/08/08

By Ivan Velinov 20/08/08

Reuters 20/08/08

The Epoch Times 20/08/08

Former Chinese Communist Party leader Hua Guofeng died on 20 Aug., 2008. He was 87.

NTDTV 19/08/08

An Israeli military expert has said the Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing sparked memories many would rather forget.

By Ivan Velinov 16/08/08

BBC 14/08/08

China has set aside three parks during the Olympics, to allow people to demonstrate. But, as the BBC's Michael Bristow finds out, the parks are empty and those who apply for permission to protest are even finding themselves arrested.

Epoch Times 14/08/08

U.S. radio stations Voice of America and Radio Free Asia have been “almost completely” jammed by the Chinese communist regime, listeners in China say.

Epoch Times 14/08/08

According to Communist Party mouthpiece, Xinhua, the death toll from the recent bombing on August 10 in Kuqa County of Xinjiang Province has risen to 11, including 10 assailants and one security guard.

Reuters 14/08/08

By Joan Delaney 11/08/08

Central News Agency 28/07/2008

Beijing police detained news reporters from Hong Kong based NOW TV on July 24 while the station was reporting on a story about Beijing residents who waited in long lines to buy admission tickets to the Olympic Games. NOW TV issued a statement protesting the interference against their freedom of press by the Beijing authorities.

Amnesty International      28/07/2008

The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country’s human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, according to a new Amnesty International report.

By Xue Fei 28/07/08

Mainland China Internet surfers have always suspected China’s state-run media of extensively using the popular graphic editing tool Adobe Photoshop, but they did not expect the artificial contrivance to be so noticeable.

Epoch Times 26/07/08

RFA 25/07/2008

Chinese citizens hoping to lodge complaints about alleged mistreatment or injustice at the hands of local officials are being tricked into filling in a form at government offices in Beijing and then taken to detention centers to await escort back home.

Reuters 25/07/08

BEIJING—The wife of a blind, jailed Chinese rights activist has appealed to Chinese leader Hu Jintao to end official harassment of her family, saying she cannot wait for the Olympics to end.

By Li Rongtian 25/07/08

Two weeks before the opening of the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese regime has launched various measures to enhance the security and promote the image of Beijing. To make sure there is sufficient blood reserve, it has even ordered patients to postpone their operation.

By Li Zhen and Feng Yiran 23/07/08

By Yuan meimei 22/07/08

By Huang Qianyun & We Xue’er 21/07/08

After traveling around the world, the Human Rights Torch Relay (HRTR) came to Macao on July 18. However, the activity – well received in many other countries and areas – was openly obstructed by the Macao government, which arrested five participants. Taiwan lawmaker William Lai stated, “The obstruction shows the failure of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ‘One Country, Two Systems.’”

By Gu Qing’er and Ben Hurley 19/07/08

At least two petitioners are thought to have died as Beijing authorities intensify their campaign to “clean up” the capital for the Olympics, with busloads of people taken away each evening.

By Feng Yiran 19/07/08

BBC News 18/07/08

Workmen have torn down the home of a Beijing family that was refusing to move to make way for redevelopment.

By Gu Qing’er 18/07/08

On July 14, Beijing officially launched a series of security measures, dubbed the “Three-Tiered Security System,” as the Olympic Games approach.

By Lin Yi and Li Zhenxiang 18/07/08

Lisa Schlein 17/07/2008

The Center on Housing Rights and Evictions says it is becoming normal practice for housing rights to be violated by countries hosting mega-events, such as the Olympics. But, it says the scale of displacement that is taking place in China is unprecedented.

Michael Bristow 17/08/2008

A raft of measures designed to ensure a safe and smooth Olympics is making life more difficult for ordinary Beijing residents.

Epochtimes 17/07/08

Martin Murphy 16/07/08

BBC 15/07/2008

On Monday, the BBC's Panorama programme revealed evidence that China had sent military trucks to Sudan, which were used in attacks on civilians in Darfur.

Epochtimes 15/07/08

Reuters 15/07/08

BEIJING—Zhou Zhilian is one of thousands of entrepreneurs for whom the Olympic Games next month represent more a missed opportunity than a chance to cash in on the influx of visitors expected to pour into Beijing.

Cindy Drukier 15/07/08

On June 16, when Eutelsat took New Tang Dynasty Television off the air, the satellite company claimed that it was due to a power supply "anomaly" on its W5 satellite and that the source of the anomaly was being investigated.

He Xiu’e and Chen Fengzhi 14/07/08

FLUSHING, New York City—Mrs. Liao, a Chinese woman in her 70s, publicly denounced two local politicians for apparently siding with people who have been involved in the violent attacks against Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing.

Xinyu 14/07/08

Timesonline 13/07/08

Internal Communist party documents have revealed that China is planning a programme of harsh political repression in Tibet despite a public show of moderation to win over world opinion before the Olympic Games next month.

Reuters 12/07/08

BEIJING—China has executed two Uighurs and sentenced another 15 to jail for alleged terrorist links, Radio Free Asia said in a report just days after Beijing warned of "attacks" aimed at the Olympics.

FT.com 11/07/08

guardian.co.uk 11/07/08

Reuters 11/07/08

Zhang Haishan 09/07/08

A high-level Chinese military source secretly disclosed last week that the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province caused a chain-reaction of explosions in the Sichuan mountain areas. The explosions destroyed Chinese army's largest armory, new weapon test bases and part of nuclear facilities including several nuclear warheads. This information is considered China's top military secret.

Ally Wang, Mimi Li, and Shaoshao Chen 09/07/08

Qin Yue, Li Ming 07/07/2008

CHINA—A relative of the girl, whose death triggered the recent unrest in southwest China, refutes the provincial government's conclusion on the cause of the girl's death.

BBC News 08/07/08

Minghui.net 08/07/08

Clearwisdom 07/07/08

By Li Xin, Li Sisi and Xiong Bin 07/07/08

By Gu Qing'er 07/07/08

CHINA—Earthquake parents from Beichuan delivered a petition letter to the Sichuan provincial appeals department on July 2, to request an answer as to who should be held for responsible for the "Tofu construction" that buried their children alive, however the answer from the regime chilled their hearts.

Li Xin, Lee Wen, and Xion Bin 05/07/2008

The largest unrest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre has been quashed in southwest China's Weng'an County in Guizhou province. Currently a large number of paramilitary and riot police are stationed in the county. TV stations and radio have been urging people to turn themselves in to police.

Reuters 06/07/2008

Democrats in Hong Kong urged Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to speed up implementation of direct elections on Sunday, during his first visit to the city since taking charge of its affairs as a state leader.

By Lin Yi and Liang Luce 04/07/2008

Approximately 47,000 people participated in a march on July 1 in Hong Kong — the only Chinese territory where a public demonstration is allowed. Local residents, as well as mainland Chinese from Shanghai, Hunan, and many other cities also came to take part in the march in spite of the heat wave.

The Epoch Times 24/06/2008

CANBERRA—The Australian Senate has voted unanimously to end the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group in China, condemning what humanitarian groups call the worst human rights crisis currently facing China.

Reuters 19/06/2008

HONG KONG—China's grip on dissent in Tibet remains tight after deadly riots there in March, with more than 1,000 people still detained without charge, human rights group Amnesty International said in a new report on Thursday.

Reuters 18/06/2008

China locked down the far-western former Silk Road city of Kashgar on Tuesday in preparation for the passage of the Olympic torch relay through the sensitive region populated by ethnic Muslim Uighurs.

The Epoch Times 05/06/2008

The New York Attorney General's office announced on Friday a settlement that requires the exhibitors of preserved corpses to be accountable for where they get the bodies.

AFP 05/06/2008

Two US lawmakers accused the Chinese government Thursday of instigating attacks on practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual group in New York and called on Washington to lodge a protest with Beijing.

Clearwisdom.net 04/06/08

Clearwisdom.net 02/06/08

China's New York Consul General Peng Keyu admitted to his behind-the-scenes role in orchestrating the attacks by a group of thugs against Falun Gong practitioners at the Flushing Service Center for Quitting the CCP. The Communist Party has again reared its ugly head, this time taking advantage of people's highly charged emotions over the recent earthquake.

Central News Agency 01/06/08

BEIJING—Forty half-starved earthquake survivors were rescued from a remote area in southwestern China 16 days after the Sichuan earthquake, state-controlled media reported on Thursday.

By Xin Fei 31/05/08

By Chen Xingman 30/05/08

By Wu Weilin 29/05/08

There has been a heated debate over whether the recent devastating earthquake in China was predicted before it took place. Critics are accusing the political regime of being very irresponsible in ignoring earthquake warnings and thereby causing the loss of tens of thousands of lives.

Reuters 28/05/08

Epoch Times 28/05/08

By Qi Zhifeng 27/05/08

WASHINGTON—According to the latest news from China, the Chinese regime apparently tightened its control over news media one more time.

AAP News 27/05/08

Disabled people can be unsocial, stubborn, controlling, defensive and have a strong sense of inferiority, according to an official Beijing Olympics guide set to spark outrage in the disabled community.

NTDTV News 27/05/08

APF News 26/05/08

Soldiers raced Monday to blast clear a river dammed by landslides after China's deadly earthquake two weeks ago, amid fears that more than one million people could be at risk from flooding.

Epoch Times 26/05/08

SKY News 25/05/08

The Dalai Lama has said he is saddened thet Beijing's "propaganda" has left many Chinese considering him to be a "devil with horns".

VOA News 25/05/08

Central China has been struck by a powerful aftershock as the region struggles to recover from a massive earthquake earlier this month that killed tens of thousands of people and left many more homeless. Latest shock killed at least one person in Sichuan province and injured about 260. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington.

Reuters 25/05/08

SHANGHAI—Bells clanged, children played and police kept watch as pilgrims clutching rosary beads flocked to one of China's most revered Catholic shrines on Saturday, the day Pope Benedict XVI designated World Day of Prayer for China.

Epoch Times 25/05/08

Thousands of children died in the recent earthquake in China because of the poor construction quality of their school buildings. Currently their parents are petitioning to bring to justice the corrupted officials who are responsible, and to recognize the day of the earthquake as an annual memorial date as well.

CFP News 23/05/08

China’s communist regime could be behind a rash of angry, sometimes violent, protests in the United States and Canada, said a retired Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agent and expert on the regime’s clandestine operations in Canada.

By Shi Yu 22/05/08

Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propagandized its rescue efforts at full throttle, according to sources, due to a high level power struggle, less than 1,000 soldiers were dispatched to the earthquake epicenter, Wenchuan County, in the initial 72 hours after the earthquake.

The Epoch Times 22/05/08

Just after the devastating earthquake in China, The Epoch Times reported that evidence shows the Chinese regime deliberately ignored the warning about the coming disaster.

Ben Kaminsky, Katy Mantyk, and Evan Mantyk 21/05/2008

FLUSHING, N.Y.—With supporters of the Chinese regime spitting, throwing eggs, beating people, and shouting propaganda, the scene this week in New York City's Flushing Chinatown looked like something from China's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, according to Edmund Erh, a Queens resident who has faced the brunt of the attacks.

BBC News 17/05/08

There has been panic in the quake-hit Chinese city of Beichuan after reports a river had burst its bank sparked fears the entire city could be flooded.

Xinfei 15/05/08

Epoch Times 15/05/08

The day after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan Province Monday afternoon, in Wenchuan County, the region of the quake's epicenter, more than 12,000 people were confirmed dead, nearly 30,000 injured, and about 20,000 people remained buried beneath rubble, with 60,000 people missing.

By Ying Tang and Martin Croucher 13/05/08

A respected Chinese author has said that he expects China to become a democracy within a generation.

The Epoch Times 13/05/08

On May 13, 1992 Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi introduced the practice of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, to the general public in mainland China. According to official statistics, in a few short years it grew dramatically in popularity until there were at least 70 million Chinese practitioners.

By Sun Mingguo and Shar Adams 13/05/08

The Epoch Times 12/05/08

Enterovirus, better known as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) has become an epidemic in mainland China. As of Wednesday, May 7, at least 16,000 children are known to have become infected with HFMD and at least 28 deaths have occurred as a result.

Reuters 11/05/08

BEIJING—China will not guarantee it won't censor the Internet over this summer's Beijing Olympics, nor can it guarantee to stamp out piracy of Olympic-branded goods, officials said on Thursday.

By Feng Changle 11/05/08

On May 5, Tian Yixiang, the director of the military bureau's security command center for the Beijing Olympic Games, told a reporter from the military channel of Xinhua News Net that the main threat to security of the Olympic Games are "domestic forces against China, including the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, the Tibetan Independent Movement, and Falun Gong. These groups regard the Olympics as an opportunity to interfere and create damage."

NTD News 11/05/08

The outbreak of enterovirus 71, called hand, foot and mouth disease, has spread to thirteen provinces and municipalities in China. People in Zhejiang province are saying that information about the epidemic, which affects young children under the age of 10, has been covered up by Communist Party officials.

BBC News 08/05/08

A spokesman for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says talks with Chinese officials last week were "open and frank".

By Tu Long, Meng Yuan 08/05/08

Xu Na is a 40 year old reputed painter. She is now illegally detained in the Beijing Detention Center because of her belief in Falun Gong. Her husband Yu Zhou, a famous folk singer and also a practitioner, died from torture just before Chinese New Year.

Epoch Times 07/05/08

On May 4, representatives of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, met with officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the Kylin Villa in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. This is the first meeting between the two sides since the surge of demonstrations and retaliatory crackdown in Lhasa this March.

AFP 03/05/08

Two Dalai Lama envoys will hold talks with Chinese officials Sunday in southern China, a spokesman for the exiled Tibetan leader said, even as Beijing kept up its barrage of criticism against him.

By Zeweng Tashi 01/05/08

The Independent 01/05/08

Nearly 400 prisoners will be put to death across China while the world's elite athletes compete for Olympic glory in Beijing, a leading human rights organisation warns.

RFA 30/04/08

The Chinese authority arrested a large number Tibetans without informing their families.

By Li Zhen 29/04/08

HONG KONG—After Duke University student Wang Qianyuan called out to China's students for Tibetan rights, Chen Qiaowen, a philosophy major at Hong Kong University also stood up to protest the CCP's persecution of the Tibetan people.