South Korea’s Coast Guard confirmed this week that it had arrested a man from China attempting to enter the country on a jet ski. In remarks on Wednesday, a human rights campaigner confirmed that the man in question was anti-communist dissident Kwon Pyong, who served an 18-year prison sentence in 2017 for wearing an anti-Xi Jinping shirt.
NBA player James Harden is enjoying lavish coverage from Chinese state media and selling out on his name-brand wine collection after disparaging the president of the Philadelphia 76ers, Daryl Morey during an event in Beijing this week.
Human rights champion Nina Shea has slammed Pope Francis for his policy of appeasement with China, insisting that it emboldens President Xi Jinping in his oppression of Chinese Catholics.
A Frenchman known for daredevil climbing stunts reportedly died Thursday after falling from a building in Hong Kong, and police are now investigating.
A fight broke out during a hockey game in Thailand, and one player raised everyone’s eyebrow as his team waded into the melee.
A Chinese spy is suspected of infiltrating a meeting of British lawmakers and exiled Hong Kong dissidents in Parliaament earlier this month.
Hong Kong-born American singer Coco Lee, who blazed her way to pop stardom across Asia and beyond in the 1990s and 2000s, has died. She was 48.
Australian Prime Minister criticized Hong Kong authorities over their pursuit of two pro-democracy activists who live in Australia.
China’s rubber-stamp legislature on Wednesday passed a “Foreign Relations Law” intended to enhance “extraterritorial application” of Communist law – in other words, force people in other countries to obey it, or at least fear it – and protect the regime in Beijing from foreign sanctions.
Hong Kong’s Beijing-controlled government sought a court injunction Monday against the 2019 pro-democracy anthem “Glory to Hong Kong.”
A former ByteDance executive says the Chinese Communist Party was able to access the personal data of TikTok users in Hong Kong in 2018.
Hong Kong police detained at least 24 people on Sunday, the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre.
Police arrested four people in Hong Kong for “seditious” acts on the eve of the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary.
The Chinese Communist government is ramping up online censorship ahead of the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, massacre of student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square – an event that is illegal to commemorate or discuss in China.
City Journal reported on Thursday that surrogates for the Chinese government are allegedly pressuring the city of San Francisco to remove the Tiananmen Square memorial in Portsmouth Square Park, which is due to undergo renovations in the near future.
The Civic Party voted to disband after its members were squeezed out of local councils and charged under Beijing’s national security law.
Hong Kong’s Beijing-controlled chief executive John Lee on Thursday insisted his government should identify books with “bad ideologies” – such as those which tell the truth about the Tiananmen Square massacre – and remove them from public libraries.
Wang Lei, global executive vice president for British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and president of its decades-old branch in China, said on Friday that the company “loves the Communist Party.”
An intelligence agency report says one of them plotted to intimidate the Hong Kong relatives of a Canadian lawmaker.
The future presence of a senior Anti-UK Republican and a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party at the coronation of King Charles III has provoked anger from numerous sources.
A simulation based on apocalyptic images designed to highlight “the disastrous effects of climate change” had the opposite impact on those who viewed it and failed to shift attitudes, a study from Singapore Management University details.
Jack Ma, the once-flamboyant billionaire founder of tech giant Alibaba, re-appeared in China last week after spending over a year in exile.
A small group of about 80 people participated on Sunday in the first protest allowed in Hong Kong since the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic began — forced to wear humiliating number tags and flanked while marching by almost as many police officers as protesters.
A man survived after his bungee cord snapped while he was visiting an adventure park in Pattaya, Thailand, recently.
The aftershocks of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) multibillion-dollar collapse reached Asia on Tuesday, as stock indexes in Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong tumbled by more than two percent.
Actor Donnie Yen’s invitation to join the presenter list at the 2023 Oscars has been attacked by critics after he derided the 2019 pro-democracy Hong Kong protests in an interview.
The Catholic Humanitarian Committee has written a letter condemning the unjust imprisonment of Hong Kong Catholic businessman Jimmy Lai by Communist Chinese authorities.
John Lee, the Beijing-controlled chief executive of Hong Kong, announced on Tuesday that Hong Kong’s mandate to wear masks both inside and outdoors will be dropped on Wednesday, March 1. The mandate was imposed in July 2020, making it one of the world’s longest-lasting and strictest coronavirus mandates.
The missing head of a Hong Kong model was recently found in a soup pot after being boiled until only the skull remained, according to police.
The Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times lamented a riot in Brazil this weekend as somehow a “made in U.S.” phenomenon that exposed Washington as “phony” and “moralistic.”
Lawyers for Jimmy Lai, a jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher, have asked for an urgent meeting with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
The Beijing-controlled government of Hong Kong on Thursday asked Japan to retract its restrictions on incoming flights from China, while France and Australia separately announced they saw no reason to impose special restrictions on Chinese travelers.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers and was taken to the airport for a flight back to Paris, his attorney said.
China recalled six officials, inlcuding one of its top diplomats, from the UK following a violent assault on pro-democracy protesters.
The official press agency of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions has denounced the mass arrests, imprisonment, and “reeducation” programs imposed on participants in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrations of 2019.
Sympathy demonstrations were held in Taiwan and Hong Kong on Sunday and Monday to show support for China’s massive anti-lockdown protests, even as the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on demonstrations appeared to be suppressing the movement.
Cardinal Joseph Zen has been found guilty together with 5 others of failing to properly register the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which provided legal and medical aid to jailed protesters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.
The South Korean Rugby Union on Monday apologized for playing the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” instead of the Chinese Communist anthem at the men’s finals match in Incheon on Sunday.
Apple seemingly bowed to Communist China’s “sharp power” economic leverage again on Thursday by restricting the use of its AirDrop file-sharing service on Chinese iPhones.
Hong Kong authorities are forcing young inmates arrested during the 2019 pro-democracy protests to attend “patriotic education” sessions to cleanse them of “extreme ideological views,” reports a Catholic watchdog group.
