Myanmar Cardinal Wants Chinese Government to Apologize for Virus Outbreak

VISION TIMES Cardinal Charles Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, believes that the Chinese regime is responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, he wants the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to apologize to the world for their mismanagement of the situation. Standing against the CCP Bo points to an epidemiological model generated by […]

Coronavirus Update: China Increasingly Isolated as Countries Scramble to Contain Spread

VISION TIMES The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 362 people globally, according to Chinese and World Health Organization (WHO) data. At this writing, Chinese officials reported a surge in new cases where the death toll rose to at least 361 with nearly 3,000 new cases recorded in the country in the past 24 hours, raising the number […]

Hong Kong Protesters Face Abusive Policing, Suppression of Promised Freedoms: Report

<!–[CDATA[ Lau Siu-Fung and Tseng Yat-Yiu | Radio Free Asia Hong Kong protesters are ‘bloodied but not broken’ in the wake of abusive policing tactics for which the authorities have yet to be held accountable, according to an annual report from Amnesty International. The report tracked a wave of youth-led protests across Asia which had defied “escalating repression […]

First Foreign Nationals Evacuate China as the US Reportedly Mulls Ban on China Flights

<!–[CDATA[ VOA News The first evacuations of foreign nationals from China took place Wednesday as the U.S. reportedly considers banning all airline flights between the two countries. White House officials reportedly told U.S. airline executives at a meeting Tuesday the administration has not decided yet to impose a ban, but it is continuing to assess […]

Global Freedom Declines as Chinese, Russian Info Control Practices Spread, Says Study

Radio Free Asia Chinese and Russian technology and practices in surveillance, censorship and other forms of information control are spreading and being copied around the world, mostly in authoritarian states but also in some democracies, said a report released in Washington on Tuesday. Beijing and Moscow both have cultivated “technospheres” of countries that follow their […]

Big Tech Companies Are Saying Goodbye to China

VISION TIMES Big U.S. tech companies like Microsoft, Dell, and HP are reportedly looking to transfer a good chunk of their manufacturing out of China due to the sour trade relationship between Beijing and Washington. Moving out production “Hardware production has long been centered on China where production costs are cheaper, components of the tech […]

Chinese Human Rights Defender, Former Participant in Tiananmen Protests Died Mysteriously

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] ChinaAid Munich — En route to Paris, Zhang Jian, a former student participant in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, passed away suddenly in Munich on April 23. After boarding a flight from Omar to Paris, Zhang suffered severe health complications, and the aircraft landed in Munich so he […]

Concerns Grow For Taiwan Activist Serving Jail Term in China

Ng Yik-tung, Sing Man and Han Jie | Radio Free Asia Two years after his initial ‘disappearance’ on March 19, 2017, Taiwan rights activist Lee Ming-cheh has endured ill-treatment and is suffering declining health in prison, a rights group says. “Since then, Lee has endured ill-treatment and deteriorating health; according to his wife … he has lost 30 […]

‘How I Escaped a Kidnap Attempt by Chinese Agents in Hong Kong’

Tam Siu-yin | Radio Free Asia Exiled Hong Kong media boss Gu Zhuoheng, chairman of Sing Pao Media Enterprises, which owns Hong Kong’s pro-China Sing Pao Daily News, has been an outspoken critic of corruption among the Chinese leadership, and currently has an Interpol red notice out for his arrest. He spoke to RFA’s Cantonese […]

China Spiriting Uyghur Detainees Away From Xinjiang to Prisons in Inner Mongolia, Sichuan

Shohret Hoshur | Radio Free Asia Ethnic Uyghurs held in political “re-education camps” in northwest China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being sent to prisons in Inner Mongolia and Sichuan province, officials have confirmed, adding to the growing list of locations detainees are being secretly transferred to. In October last year, RFA’s Uyghur Service reported […]