China’s New Coal Plants Raise Climate Threat
China’s continuing construction of coal plants has raised alarms among environmental research groups as international concerns over greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grow.
Washington DC: Congressional Forum Marks 20th Anniversary of Historic April 25 Appeal
Li Jingfei | Minghui A forum was held in the U.S. Congress on April 25, 2019, to mark the 20th anniversary of the April 25 peaceful appeal. April 25, 1999, is a significant date for China and Falun Gong practitioners. On that day, approximately 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners traveled to Beijing to appeal to the Chinese […]
Wife of Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyer Takes Protest to Supreme Court
Jia Ao and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia The wife of a jailed human rights lawyer has staged a vocal protest outside China’s highest court during the Lunar New Year holiday, calling for redress for his incommunicado detention since July 2015. As the rest of China celebrated the Year of the Pig with their […]
Top Chinese Doctors Admit to Harvesting Organs From Falun Gong Practitioners
JENNIFER ZENG | EPOCH TIMES A new round of chilling phone calls reveals that live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners continues in China at a variety of leading transplant centers in different regions of the country. The conversations, with doctors from 12 transplant hospitals in China, also show that this “business” has become “normal” at these facilities: […]
The Torture and Tragedy of the ‘Counter-Revolutionary’ Zhang Zhixin
Hermann Rohr | Vision times Zhang Zhixin is known for her brave influence and free will during the time of the Cultural Revolution in China. She became famous for “criticizing the idolization of Mao Zedong and the ultra-left.” Zhixin was born on December 5, 1930, to a university music teacher family in Tianjin. After graduating […]
What It Means to Be a Chinese-Australian
VISION TIMES This feature investigates issues of cultural identity and integration for two migrant generations by following the story of a first generation Chinese-Australian, Ying Lee, from her poignant and heart-wrenching journey to Australia, to her struggles in integrating into the Australian society, and then to her cultural gap with her children who are born […]
Beijing Residents Fight Back Over Renewed Forced Evictions, Demolitions
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia Residents of Beijing’s Daxing district, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party has been forcibly evicting migrants in a mass clearance operation since last November, surrounded a clothing factory on Thursday in a bid to protect it from being shut down. One […]
Former top Chinese Communist Official Sun Zhengcai Jailed forLife for Bribery
Ben Dooley | Hong Kong Free Press A former Chinese Communist Party official who was once tipped for a top leadership post was sentenced to life in prison for bribery on Tuesday, the latest senior cadre to fall in President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption crusade. Sun Zhengcai, a former Politburo member and party chief of […]
The Might of an Ant: the Story of Lawyer Li Baiguang
Yaxue Cao | China Change This article was first publshed in China Change website on March 20, 2018 Li Baiguang (李柏光), a human rights lawyer, died on February 26, aged 49. Li Baiguang, born on October 1, 1968, was the youngest of seven children in a tiny mountain village household in Jiahe county, Chenzhou, Hunan. […]
‘If I Don’t Oppose Dictatorship, Am I Still a Man?’: Chinese Activist Gets Eight Years in Prison
Oiwan Lam | Global Voices “For those living under a dictatorship, being given the honorable label of one who ‘subverts state power’ is the highest form of affirmation for a citizen.” Chinese human rights activist Wu Gan made this statement to a Tianjin court after receiving an eight-year prison sentence on December 26, 2017. In […]