From VOA: A priest from China’s underground Catholic church has been released after nearly six years under house arrest. Published reports from the Vatican say Vincent Kong Guocun was freed last month because of poor health. There is no official confirmation from Beijing. The 34-year-old priest, who was from an unapproved diocese in Wenzhou along […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Canada East: Thousands of students rioted at a southern China college to protest fees and other campus issues, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Saturday. More than 4,000 students overturned cars and threw bottles out of windows at a university in Jiujiang, in the southern province of Jiangxi, the Chinese-language Oriental Daily News […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Channelnewsasia.com: Thousands of farmers demonstrated against a land eviction in China’s southern Guangdong province, with clashes erupting after police detained some protestors, a rights group said. Four villagers were rounded up by police on Thursday after the farmers tried to block bulldozers from levelling about 670 hectares of land near Sanshangang village, […]
Read MoreFrom City Weekend: Beginning early this year on the Qinghua and Beijing University BBS, a girl named ‘Frjj’ (Furong Jiejie) began to upload her photos. Accompanying each photo was a brief diary entry. At first read they proclaimed, “I’m pure and noble (this is how my classmates describe me, which isn’t my fault).’ Harmless enough. […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: As Hong Kong marks the eighth anniversary today of its return to Chinese rule, its news media are struggling to preserve the independence that set them apart from the mainland’s tightly controlled government presses. On the surface, little has changed since the former British colony reverted to Chinese rule on July […]
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