5 February 2012, 4:50 pm
A MAN smeared human faeces on his 10-year-old daughter's lips as punishment for being disobedient, reported Nanyang Siang Pau .... Read More »
5 February 2012, 4:16 pm
The daily reported that the incident happened in a market in Hangzhou, China. The man, in his 30s, had scraped the faeces from a public toilet bowl at a market in Hangzhou and smeared it on his daughter's lips.... Read More »
3 February 2012, 5:23 am
China has been cracking down on dissidents within its country. Sophie Richardson of Foreign Policy argues that foreign governments need to make freedom of expression in China an inescapable topic in all discussions with Chinese officials.... Read More »
1 February 2012, 9:12 pm
When Poetry Gets You Time in a Chinese Prison... Read More »
31 January 2012, 1:16 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese prosecutors cited a poem and messages sent on Skype against a dissident who stood trial on Tuesday, his son and his lawyer said, in the latest case highlighting the Communist Party's drive to silence political challengers. Veteran activist Zhu Yufu faced trial in the ... Read More »
28 January 2012, 2:00 am
Traditional bridge replacement on as prominent a highway as Interstate 15 in Mesquite, Nev., has generally required rerouting traffic for as long as a year, but the new "accelerated" technology in January necessitated detours for less than a week. Excited engineers traveled in from around the countr... Read More »
19 January 2012, 1:53 am
Desperate to return home for China's most important holiday, migrant worker Li Zhuqing lined up for six chilly days and nights at a train station ticket counter only to be told that all the seats were sold out.... Read More »
17 January 2012, 3:23 am
Chinese authorities have indicted veteran dissident Zhu Yufu on subversion charges for writing a poem urging people to gather to defend their freedoms, his lawyer said today.... Read More »
16 January 2012, 10:30 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have indicted veteran dissident Zhu Yufu on subversion charges for writing a poem urging people to gather to defend their freedoms, his lawyer said on Tuesday, the latest activist to such charges in a tightening clampdown. Zhu, 60, from the eastern city of Han... Read More »
11 January 2012, 10:16 am
A university cracks down on misconduct in China.... Read More »