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 The secret trial of a prominent Uighur scholar on charges of “separatism” makes a mockery of China’s claims to be a country based on the rule of law, Amnesty International said.  Prominent Uighur scholar, Ilham Tohti, who was arrested in January 2014, has reportedly been secretly tried by a court of the Xinjiang Production and Const

Launching what Beijing described as a “zero-hour” operation, government forces descend on the restive Xinjiang region.

THE Pearl river delta in the southern province of Guangdong is no stranger to strikes, most of them small and quickly resolved. But a walk-out by workers at...

Why is Oslo kow-towing to Beijing and
stiff-arming the Dalai Lama?

Who Will Win Control of the South China Sea?

Fully half of China's GDP comes from a smattering of major cities, many near the coast.

The vast network of influence surrounding China's former security czar.

NOT everyone treats China's official statistics with casual disdain. Last month the head of China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) paid a visit to Mr Ye, an...

CHINESE officials have called it a “leap forward” for democracy in Hong Kong. Yet their announcement on August 31st of plans to allow, for the first time, every...

Even high cadres quake at
the term ‘shuanggui,’ an extra-judicial interrogation method that has claimed
lives.

Looks can be deceiving. In China, official bribery -- even exchanging sex for power -- is still too normal.

Beijing's deployment of its billion-dollar oil rig sends a clear message to Vietnam: We'll drill where we damn well please.

On Sunday, March 30, around 1,000 activists gathered in Maoming, a city in southwest China, to protest against the proposed construction of a petrochemical plant. For the most part, police in China ha…

Staff at factory in Jiangxi join industrial action in which up to 30,000 workers are striking in neighbouring Guangdong

China has court-martialled a senior former army officer in the biggest corruption scandal to engulf the secretive People’s Liberation Army, in a move that could foreshadow the unprecedented criminal prosecutions of other leading military officials.

American policy makers must understand that the new Chinese leader needs to be a nationalist to be a reformer.

A viral essay explains why many Taiwanese think their government is selling out to China.

Beijing: Chinese authorities have condemned a mass stabbing that has left at least 29 dead at a crowded railway station as a premeditated terrorist attack orchestrated by separatists from the restive western region of Xinjiang.

Chinese courts acquitted a total of 825 people out of almost 1.16 million verdicts last year, the Supreme People's Court says - a conviction rate of 99.93 per cent.