Police in China’s Wuhan Beat, Detain Protesters Angry Over Power Project
Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei are holding an unknown number of people after thousands of protesters took to the streets in protest at a planned power facility. Several thousand residents of Hubei’s provincial capital and Yangtze River port Wuhan took to the streets on Tuesday and […]
This Street in Shanghai Used to Protect Jews Hiding From Hitler. Now It Holds Religious Prisoners
Leo Timm | Epoch Times During World War II, 20,000 German Jews fleeing imminent persecution and extermination found refuge in the “Paris of the Orient”—the popular nickname for Shanghai at the time. They resided in an international settlement centered along Changyang Road, located near the mouth of the Yangtze River. The story of the Holocaust and […]
Will Xi Jinping’s Speech Save the Yangtze River?
Frank Fang | Epoch Times When the Three Gorges Dam was completed in 2006, it was hailed by the Chinese regime as a great engineering achievement. But critics say that the massive hydraulic project has caused many problems for the Yangtze River and its surrounding areas for over a decade—over 1.5 million residents living near the […]