More Than 100,000 Mark Massacre Anniversary in Hong Kong Vigil

Wong Si-lam and Xin Lin  |  Radio Free Asia Around 100,000 people turned out in Hong Kong on Sunday to commemorate the 28th anniversary of a June 4, 1989, military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square student movement, in a mass rally and candlelight vigil that is an annual fixture in the former British colony. Some […]

As Tiananmen Anniversary Nears, June 4 Disappears from the China’s Web

Xin Lin and Yang Fan  |  Radio Free Asia China’s Internet giant Baidu.com is blocking keyword searches linked to the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests as Beijing attempts to throttle discussion ahead the 27th anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on the pro-democracy demonstrations. The move follows a period of relative freedom to search […]

China Marks First Anniversary of Constitution Day With Awkward Silence

<!–[CDATA[ Bruce Lui  |  China Change This article was first published in China Change web site on December 4, 2015 The Chinese Communist Party marked the anniversary of its inaugural “National Constitution Day” on December 4 with more action than words: workers’ rights NGOs were raided and activists detained; the author of “A History of […]

Military presence intensified in Amdo, Tibet

Free Tibet China sends work teams to Tibetan monasteries to “protect” them from protests  [caption id="attachment_2780" align="alignleft" width="300"] 10 March in London (Free Tibet)[/caption] Chinese authorities have tightened security in areas of Golog and Rebkong ahead of March 10th, the anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising of 1959 and the intense protests in 2008. Images show […]