According to a report by the China Business Post, many outstanding high school graduates in China are seeking opportunities for college education in Hong Kong after a loss of prestige by Chinese academic institutions, including Beijing (Peking) University and Qinghua (Tsinghua) University. The report said the University of Hong Kong sent out their first batch […]

HONG KONG ― The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong reported on July 1 that Ms. Li Shimei of Hefei City in Anhui Province, who already had a child but was seven months pregnant with twins, was sent to the hospital for an induced labor under China’s One-Child Family Policy. { […]

On the 40th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, which still has a strong impact on today's Chinese people, our reporter visited the first Cultural Revolution Museum in Shantou City, an industrial port in the northeastern corner of Guangdong Province. The private Cultural Revolution Museum is founded by Peng Qian, a former Shantou deputy mayor. The […]

Earlier this month, the British firm Oxford Ancestors found a precise match between the Y chromosome of 48-year-old Tom Robinson, an American accounting professor whose ancestors first emigrated from England, and Genghis Khan, making him the first male descendant in the West. Shortly after the announcement, many who claimed to be Confucius's descendants but lacked […]

Famous Hong Kong Human Rights Attorney and Member of Hong Kong Council Ho Chun-yan, expressed his support to the Canadian independent team investigating claims that the Chinese Communist Party is harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in forced labor camps and then killing them. Ho, a supporter of human rights inside mainland China, said […]

A Chinese military plane crashed into a hillside in the south-eastern part of Anhui Province in China on June 3, killing all 40 passengers. The China News Service (CNS) reported that it was a transport plane while Xinhua News Agency said that the plane was 'on a mission'. Chinese media officials did not explain what […]

HONG KONG – Renowned Shanghai attorney Zheng Enchong was released from his three-year jail sentence on June 5, 2006. The attorney was jailed for representing Shanghai residents who were evicted from their homes, which were being demolished to make way for new development. Prior to his arrest, Zheng sued the Shanghai government and Zhou Zhengyi, […]

BEIJING – Floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains have killed more than 50 people in south China in recent days and forced more than 350,000 people to flee their homes, state media said on Thursday. In Fujian province, 41 people were killed in floods and 356,200 people evacuated from their homes, the official Xinhua […]

Seventeen years ago, Lu Decheng was jailed by the Chinese authorities for lobbing paint-filled egg shells onto the portrait of Communist Chairman Mao Zedong during the student-led democracy protests in Beijing in 1989. This week, just months after arriving in his new home in Calgary, Lu was on hand at the University of Toronto for […]

According to the latest news from European Falun Dafa Information Center, one of the two Falun Gong practitioners who met with the Vice President of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, at the end of May in Beijing is missing. Another practitioner, Niu Jinping, is currently being monitored at home. In May 2006, Vice-President of […]

BEIJING – Chinese police joined throngs of tourists in a crowded Tiananmen Square on Sunday, poised to head off any incidents to mark the anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations 17 years ago. With checkpoints at entrances to the square and sentries at subway stops, the security presence in and around China's […]

On April 27, 2006, Zou Tao, a resident in China's southern city of Shenzhen, started an Internet campaign called “Don't Buy a House for Three Years.” The campaign spread very quickly to all of China, but the authorities suppressed Zou's initiative. On May 11, Zou intended to personally hand an appeal letter to the Chinese […]

Recently, the Judicial Court of Luzhou City, Sichuan Province in China has sentenced four people to prison for acts such as downloading Falun Gong materials, posting resignation statements from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on The Epoch Times website and posting solemn declarations on the Falun Gong Clearwisdom.net. Among the sentenced, Liang Jinhui, who has […]

Central News Agency, TAIPEI – According to Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong based newspaper, a young girl set up a stall near the subway exit at the Shenzhen Conference and Exhibition Center, attempting to sell the manuscript of the book she has written. Behind her, a banner read, “Ten-year-old Zhou Yang, Selling Five Manuscripts […]

On May 18th, 2006, Bank of China launched its $9.9 billion Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the Hong Kong Stock Market. However, according to some Chinese economic experts, it indicates the collapsing of China's financial system. The bank hopes to overcome the crisis by raising capital overseas. Bank of China plans to sell about 25.5 […]

The first Polyacrylamide Gel (PAAG) case in Mainland China involving the victim claiming for damages has been settled in Shenzhen’s intermediate People’s Court on Tuesday. The Judge will probably have a ruling in a month. However, when two television reporters from Hong Kong went to the hospital to interview the people involved in the case, […]

A severe flooding accident at Xinjing coal mine in Shanxi Province, China on May 18 has left many miners stranded, but the actual number remains unknown. The authorities claim only 57 miners are missing, but according to the miners' families, more than 100 are unaccounted for. These miners have been stranded for more than five […]

Wu Jingmin, a senior tour guide in Shenzhen city of China, recently published a book called How Can I Not Cheat You? In the book Mr. Wu exposes many shady deals in the tourist service profession, disclosing how tour agencies, guide and tour attractions conspire together to cheat the customer. Mr. Wu lost his job […]

2006 marks the 40th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution. The Chinese authorities demanded a low-profile response to it, forbidding the newspapers to publish any article to memorize or to reflect on the political movement. In addition, all information relevant to the Cultural Revolution has been filtered out from Internet search engines. The Chinese Communist Party […]

Since April 2006, a large number of chickens have died in a one month period in China's largest chicken farm – Dalian Hanwei Enterprises Group Co. in Dalian city. Although local residents believe the “bird flu” virus caused the deaths and the local government has issued a notice to stop the sale of chicken droppings […]

HONG KONG – According to the Xinkuai newspaper in Guangdong Province, China, local merchants produce brightly colored poisonous ginger using sulfur and other medical powders to sell them on the market. Everyday, at least twenty tons of such ginger are delivered to Guangzhou City, Dongguan City, Shenzhen City and other cities and are sold in […]

HONG KONG – Hong Kong's most senior Roman Catholic clergyman Cardinal Joseph Zen rejected on Thursday suggestions from China that he persuade the Vatican to accept Beijing's appointment of bishops. Tension between Beijing and the Vatican flared up this month after China's state-backed Catholic church installed two bishops without papal blessing, and a senior Chinese […]

TAIPEI – In the wave of Chinese learning abroad, the Chinese communist regime tries it best to popularize simplified Chinese via its robust political and diplomatic tactics. Many people fear that traditional Chinese, which is used in Taiwan and overseas Chinese communities, is in danger of being marginalized and eliminated. Chinese character experts, however, point […]

Washington, D.C. was fortunate last week, on May 3, in having four of China's high profile writers and lawyers speak about the obstacles to their work in China, and the strategies they have adopted to break through the severely limited freedom of expression, religious freedom, and the rule of law allowed by the Chinese Communist […]

By the end of 2005, the number of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres’ spouses and children who resettled overseas, including in Hong Kong and Macau, had reached more than 1,187,700. Families of CCP Cadres That Settle Overseas In the second half of February, the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee (CCPCC) and the Ministry […]

TAIPEI – The Ministry of Health of People's Republic of China (the Ministry of Health) reported on April 27 that one case of human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed in Sichuan Province. As of now, seventeen people have been reported to be infected by bird flu in mainland China, among whom […]

BEIJING — Yahoo Inc. has been cited in a Chinese court decision to jail a dissident Internet writer for 10 years for subversion in 2003—the fourth such case to surface implicating the U.S. Internet giant. Wang Xiaoning, born in 1951, was convicted of the charge of “incitement to subvert state power” after e-mailing electronic journals […]

In history some events are remembered as the sparks that ignite greater calamities. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, instigating World War One, and the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, ultimately leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union, are but two examples. Among such events is a little understood turning point […]

In 2005, the defection of former Chinese diplomat, Chen Yonglin created a crack in the Chinese communist regime's spy network. However, except for the highest authority that controls the spy organization, outsiders may never know how many spies the communist regime has sent overseas. Other than the officials in diplomatic organizations, who also act as […]

After Chinese leader Hu Jintao's recent visit to the United States, The Epoch Times invited Dr. Jiao Guobiao, writer and former professor from Peking University, to share his thoughts on China's current issues. Jiao Guobiao was born in 1963, in Ji County, Henan Province. Dr. Jiao obtained a doctorate in journalism from the People's University […]