This August, on the 15th anniversary of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published a special documentary “Watch out for Danger in Peace Time — the Historical Lesson of How the Russian Communist Party Perished.” The video is being shown to all CCP's members above the county level to warn […]

Lang Xianping, professor of economics at Chinese University of Hong Kong, had his finance and economics talk show, “Larry Lang Live” on Shanghai Cable TV 1, suspended this past February. He now reveals that his show was suspended on account of his mentioning several times that the social security fund should not be diverted; this […]

The Shanghai Social Security Fund scandal 1 has led to the dismissal of the former Shanghai Party Chief Chen Liangyu and currently several high ranking Shanghai officials are also under investigation. The special police force is now guarding Shanghai's transportation port in order to prevent involved officials fleeing from Shanghai. A Mainland scholar Sun Wenguang […]

Hong Kong based “Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy” reported on September 22 that twenty-two Shandong residents who have been persecuted by the Birth Control Office, are going to file a law suit to the Linyi City Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province. Among those 22 persons, one woman was given an injection by […]

HONG KONG—After the Chinese communist regime sentenced Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong to five years imprisonment for espionage, the Ching Cheong Incident Concern Group held a seminar on September 18 to discuss the case. In the seminar law experts analyzed the Ching Cheong case from legal perspectives and challenged the legitimacy of the conviction. According […]

China Netease, one of China's most popular Internet portals, held a survey on the subject “If there were a next life, would you like to be a Chinese.” 64 percent of Internet surfers answered that they “would not like to be a Chinese again next life.” The survey sparked vigourous discussions, but now the web […]

HONG KONG – Shi Zhao slides the computer mouse, making rapid-fire clicks and in the space of a minute or so finds about a dozen minor errors to be tweaked on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. “There's really nothing to it,” the 33-year-old Beijinger said with a grin after fellow Wikipedians […]

HONG KONG—A newspaper in southern China has suspended a cartoonist after he drew a weeping Chinese leader, Hu Jintao, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Thursday. Depicting national leaders in cartoons is considered politically incorrect in China, although it is periodically done without repercussions, the South China Morning Post said. But artist Kuang Biao's cartoon […]

TAIPEI—China's Air Spring airline and another four privately owned airlines recently met behind closed doors to discuss ways to rid themselves of operating losses in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. They agreed to collaborate in order to maintain benefits for privately operated airlines. According to the Hong Kong Commercial Daily , the chairpersons of five privately […]

On September 10, Xinhua News Agency published a new regulation for foreign news agencies that publish news directly in China. It requests foreign news agencies to get permission from Xinhua News Agency or go through entities authorized by Xinhua News Agency to publish their news, and Xinhua has the right to select the news that […]

TAIPEI – When China completes its eleventh “Five Year Plan” in 2010, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway will be extended to south Asia, said Yang Haibin, the Vice Chairman of China's Tibet Autonomous Regional Government, on August 30 in Lhasa. According to a report in Wen Wei Po, a Hong Kong newspaper, Yang made the comment when […]

Recently the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, located in the U.S. is being harassed by continuous phone calls from Beijing and the northern United States. The center provides round-the-clock service to those who want to quit organizations associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The head of the service center, Dr. Gao Dawei, […]

HONG KONG—Beijing has been low-key regarding Taiwan's anti-President Chen Shui-bian movement, and China's state-run media have carried only brief reports about it. A recent Hong Kong commentary expressed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Central Propaganda Department had given instructions to all levels of the media to not publish reports on the anti-Chen movement, reflecting […]

A Buddhist master, who had participated in the pro-democracy movement in 1989, was threatened by local authorities that he would be expelled from his temple for performing a releasing from suffering ritual for the souls of the victims who died in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. His name is Shengguan. He now resides in Huacheng Temple […]

HONG KONG—Democratic Party Vice-chairman and Legislator Albert Ho Chun-yan was attacked by three men armed with baseball bats after he attended a protest on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20. Hong Kong police investigators are working on the case, and Democratic Party chairman Lee Wing-tat has strongly condemned this violent act. Several lawmakers and party […]

HONG KONG — Meng Lin, who is HIV positive and an AIDS activist in Beijing, relies on friends to send him drugs from overseas every month—medicine he needs to stay alive. There are days when he despairs as he watches his cache of drugs dwindle with no replenishment in sight. “I feel very troubled when […]

BEIJING — A Chinese villager has been arrested for running down and killing three law enforcement officials and injuring eight when they began to tear down his home, a Beijing-funded Hong Kong newspaper said on Thursday. China has been grappling with an increase in social unrest, sparked by anger over issues ranging from land grabs […]

Describing an elaborate scheme of quotas, financial perks, and central government involvement, a former Chinese policeman says the authorities are stealing organs from people detained in China. “Organ harvesting in China has reached an excessive and unbelievable state,” says Zhang Jianhua during a New Tang Dynasty Television interview. “The government is out of control. It […]

CHINA—Chinese are often shocked when corrupt officials are arrested. However, 80 percent of the arrested officials are released on probation without being incarcerated. The judicial system in China has acute problems. The Hong Kong based South China Morning Post reported that there is a huge increase in exemption and probation rates among officials who have […]

Hong Kong—According to the Hong Kong based Information Center for Human Rights & Democracy (ICHRD), a large-scale clash transpired in July between police and villagers in Wanyuandian town, Liaoning province, China. Forty villagers and ten policemen were injured in the incident. The clash happened nearly one month ago, but authorities banned the media from reporting […]

HONG KONG—Dangerous red fire ants have recently appeared in Shenzhen. In the past two months, at least 20 people have been injured by fire ants and sent to emergency care. A few days ago, a middle-aged man almost died from fire ant stings and went into shock. He recovered after emergency care. A few years […]

Thousands of Christians in eastern China initiated a hunger strike to protest against the communist regime arresting over fifty Christians in Hangzhou City on July 29. As reported on the BBC Chinese website, a Christian in Beijing disclosed that he had visited Christians being detained because of their involvement in a conflict with the Communist […]

BEIJING – Christian residents in Communist China's eastern Zhejiang province clashed with police after authorities sought to demolish a church they said was unlawful, a human rights group and police said on Monday. Xiaoshan, a booming industrial suburb of the province capital Hangzhou, is home to many hundreds of Protestant Christians who reject state administration […]

The Century China website and its chat forum, one of the most influential websites for Chinese intellectuals and dissidents, were shut down by Chinese authorities on July 25. As a result, the authorities have met with continuous protest from the website's editors as well as Web surfers. Since its launch on July 19, 2000, Century […]

BEIJING – About 2,000 people in a southwestern Chinese city attacked officials and smashed offices and cars last week after a 14-year-old student was beaten up by officials, a witness and a human rights group said on Thursday. The riot in Bazhong in Sichuan province began after a middle school student tried to help a […]

HONG KONG – According to the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, on the morning of July 20, one farmer set himself on fire in Tiananmen Square. The man was severely burned and undergoing treatment in a hospital. The authorities were investigating the cause. The Information Center spoke with an employee from […]

HONG KONG — Pakistani or Ukrainian experts could be among the victims of a Chinese military aircraft accident, revealed the Chinese Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong on July 18. The military aircraft crashed in Anhui Province on June 3, killing all 40 people on board. The Information Center said that […]

CHINA – For over a decade, manganese (Mn) mining and industry have caused severe pollution to Heishui River in Xialei Town, Guangxi Province. Recently the CITIC Group spent 150 million yuan (~US$19 million) to build a Mn electrolysis factory about 333 ft away from Xialei Town. The residents from Xialei Town strongly objected and went […]

HONG KONG – A court in China's Henan province has jailed the head of one of the country's largest underground Christian churches for seven and a half years, Hong Kong's RTHK radio reported on Saturday. Quoting the China Aid Association, a U.S.-based group which monitors religious freedom in China, RTHK said Zhang Rongliang had been […]

Liang Jinhui, brother of Liang Zhen, reporter for U.S.-based New Tang Dynasty TV, was recently sentenced by Naxi District Court in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, China to 2.5 years in prison for withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations online and downloading information on Falun Gong. Liang appealed the decision. The appeal […]