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Earlier this year, Pyongyang declared it was suffering the “worst drought in 100 years.” Indeed, North Korea has suffered widespread food shortage since the early 1990s when an estimated 5 percent of its population died of starvation and related diseases. The situation remains dire.

Jiang Zemin’s days are numbered. It is only a question of when, not if, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party will be arrested. Jiang officially ran the Chinese regime for more than a decade, and for another decade he was the puppet master behind the scenes who often controlled events. During those decades Jiang did incalculable damage to China. At this moment when Jiang’s era is about to end, Epoch Times here republishes in serial form “Anything for Power: The Real Story of Jiang Zemin,” first published in English in 2011. The reader can come to understand better the career of this pivotal figure in today’s China.

North Korea publicly acknowledged the existence of its labor camps for the first time Tuesday, an admission that appeared to come in response to a highly critical U.N. human rights report earlier this year.

The Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp was supposed to be closed down, but now it simply has two names.

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Falun Gong practitioner Hua Lianyou only ended up serving a few months of his seven-year prison sentence in Binhai Prison, in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, before he was sent home—on a stretcher.

Victims of the system of forced labor camps in China are now demanding compensation for the abuses they suffered when the system was up and running.

When is shutting down a system that arbitrarily detains, tortures, and abuses hundreds of thousands of people not unambiguously good? When the Chinese regime announces it is closing the re-education through labor camp system, but then uses other means of arbitrary detention to persecute the same groups in the same ways as before.

According to a decision approved by the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee and published on Nov. 15, the notorious system of labor camps in China has been abolished. Many of the inmates will not notice any difference.

Despite some labor camps being closed, Falun Gong practitioners in China still suffer torture, sexual abuse, organ harvesting, shattered families, and shattered lives.

Large Western companies were found to have used headphones made in Chinese forced labor camps.

In a note presented on March 20, 2013 at the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, the Hon. David Kilgour makes the case for international initiatives that can help end organ pillaging in China.

North Korea’s secrecy is being increasingly breached as defectors and satellite images tell the truth. Organizations gather data before it can be erased by the regime.

Cui Aimin, a mother and a wife, has been locked in a brainwashing center for her beliefs.

Amnesty International has released the names of seven women being arbitrarily detained in an enforced drug rehabilitation camp in China due to being practitioners of the meditation discipline Falun Gong.

A former Chinese official jailed for publicly criticizing the Chinese regime and disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai was released from a labor camp, and is now insisting on suing a local committee that was in charge of his “reeducation.”

On Oct. 9, the same day that the Chinese State Council issued white papers titled “Judicial Reform in China,” a press conference was held at 10 a.m. where Jiang Wei, the office head of the Central Leading Group for Judicial Reform, discussed information on the white papers and answered reporters’ questions.