Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on Tuesday in response to a warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity, allegedly committed during his brutal war against drug dealers.
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a non-governmental human rights organization, released a report on Wednesday that found over 1,500 people have been arbitrarily detained by the Chinese Communist government over the past six years in a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent.
Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings Limited announced Tuesday asset manager BlackRock has agreed to buy a majority stake of its subsidiary that operates two ports at the Panama Canal for $23 billion.
Attorney General of Panama Luis Carlos Gómez said on Wednesday that a decades-long contract awarded to Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, to operate two ports in the Panama Canal is “unconstitutional,” local outlets reported.
All inbound packages from China and Hong Kong have been suspended by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) “until further notice,” a statement released by the carrier Tuesday night confirmed.
Chinese officials are reportedly refusing to discuss Beijing’s travel ban against Marco Rubio, the former Republican senator from Florida who was confirmed as U.S. Secretary of State on Monday.
British treasurer Rachel Reeves said Saturday that London was a “natural home” for Chinese finance during a visit to Beijing in the shadow of bond market turmoil back home.
A major electricity interconnector unexpectedly went offline on Christmas day, with officials saying they are not ruling out sabotage.
Researchers from Hong Kong have created a handheld user interface in the shape of a lollipop that can recreate various flavors in a virtual environment, the latest technology aimed at making VR more immersive.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was upbeat and defiant at his trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday, facing down a kangaroo court appointed by the Communist-controlled puppet government to prosecute him under the fascist “national security law” imposed by Beijing.
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists and former activists to up to 10 years in prison, concluding the largest case brought to date under the authoritarian “national security law” imposed by Beijing to crush the 2019 pro-democracy movement.
The Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), a semi-official organization created by the government of Taiwan, reported last week that at least 40 Taiwanese travelers went missing in communist China over the past year and remain unreachable.
Tuesday was the official beginning of National Day, a Chinese holiday marking the anniversary of Communist Party rule.
A 27-year-old man named Chu Kai-pong pled guilty to “sedition” in a Hong Kong court Monday because he wore a t-shirt with a protest slogan.
A Hong Kong court finds two editors of the now-defunct Stand News guilty of “sedition” for covering the pro-democracy uprising in 2019.
A federal court in New York convicted naturalized U.S. citizen Wang Shujun of working as an agent for China’s Ministry of State Security.
A man was caught with over 100 live snakes in his pockets while trying to smuggle them into China from Hong Kong, customs officials said.
Courts in Hong Kong heard four liquidation suits against Chinese developers from their frustrated creditors last week, a record number of cases to hit the courts at the same time.
Both pro- and anti-China demonstrators gathered outside Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra on Monday as Chinese Premier Li Qiang paid a visit.
Taiwan held various public events on Tuesday to observe the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Family members of the civilians killed by Chinese troops at Tiananmen Square in June 1989 sent their annual letter to dictator Xi Jinping.
A Hong Kong-born former U.S. CIA agent has pleaded guilty to spying on behalf of China, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
A former Royal Marine accused of spying for China-controlled Hong Kong found dead in what police call unexplained circumstances.
Police charged three with assisting Hong Kong intelligence amid growing concern that hostile states are trying to interfere with the UK.
The Chinese government celebrated heavy travel and tourism during China’s Labor Day holiday season, which ran from May 1 to May 5, as a sign the struggling economy is beginning to recover.
A Hong Kong court approved the Communist-controlled government’s effort to ban “Glory to Hong Kong,” the anthem of the 2019 protests.
The 2023 edition of the State Department’s annual human rights report blasts China for repression, torture, and genocide.
Much like when California’s far-left Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) made a politically useful visit to China in October, Chinese state media on Sunday fawned over visiting San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D).
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen launched missiles at a Chinese-owned oil tanker, seemingly violating a promise of safe passage.
The McDonald’s fast-food chain suffered a worldwide system failure on Friday that knocked out the ordering system in many of its restaurants.
A massive trove of leaked documents reveals Chinese security firm I-Soon worked as hackers under contract to the Chinese government.
Science fiction and fantasy authors were disqualified from winning the Hugo Awards if their work displeased the Chinese Communist Party.
Local soccer authorities in Beijing and Hangzhou, China, announced this weekend that they would no longer host friendly games scheduled for March featuring Argentina’s national team, apparently part of the ongoing backlash in China against Argentine star Lionel Messi for being injured during a game in Hong Kong.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping used his Lunar New Year address to praise tighter “integration” with Hong Kong and Macau.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper accused Lionel Messi on Wednesday of having “political motives” for not playing in Hong Kong.
India’s stock market is soaring as investors seek an alternative to China’s faltering economy and oppressive policies.
A court in Beijing on Monday sentenced Australian writer Yang Hengjun to a “suspended death sentence” on espionage charges — effectively sentencing him to life in prison.
A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the gigantic China Evergrande Group to liquidate, a long-feared but perhaps inevitable step that brings China’s troubled property market one step closer to a dangerous crisis.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its annual census of imprisoned reporters this weekend, and found China was once again the world’s worst jailer of journalists, followed closely by Myanmar, with Belarus in third place.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry declared media mogul Jimmy Lai a “mastermind” of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong on Monday, apparently ruling him guilty on the same day that his trial for alleged “sedition” began.
