More than three years after the military’s coup d’état, Myanmar remains engulfed in instability and civil war. China has more leverage in Myanmar than any other foreign power, and the ongoing crisis along the China-Myanmar...
On Friday, the International Labor Organization (ILO) released its annual report on member nations’ compliance with international labor standards. The 870-page report, written by a 20-person committee of independent...
The Xuzhou mother-of-eight who appeared in a viral video shackled and chained in a freezing shed now has a name and a hometown … or does she? On Thursday, the authorities in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, reported that the woman...
This week, NGO Safeguard Defenders released a report detailing the Chinese government’s systematic and covert practice of forcing “fugitives” to return to China from overseas. The report is titled “INvoluntary Returns,” in...
Swedish citizen Gui Minhai is one of the five booksellers and publishers associated with Hong Kong’s Mighty Current Media and Causeway Bay bookstore who were detained from abroad in 2015 to reappear in custody in China. The...
On November 10, the international law enforcement organization Interpol announced the election of...
Since coming to power in 2012, the Xi administration has overseen a crackdown on civil...
News.com.au reports that Beijing has moved into “damage control” following...
As China’s investment in Sudan’s oil continues, China’s Foreign Ministry says four Chinese workers have been abducted in Sudan’s North Darfur region, according to AP: Monday’s statement says the men are...
Sudanese rebels claimed on Sunday that they abducted 29 Chinese road workers after a battle between the rebels and the Sudanese army, though the army claims the rebels attacked the workers’ compound. From Reuters: The army...
Police in China have uncovered a human trafficking ring in China, and rescued 22 women and children. From the Associated Press: Police rescued 22 women and children abducted by a human-trafficking ring that operated in southern...
According to the People’s Supreme Court, two men have been executed for child trafficking. From Xinhua: A statement from the court said 55-year-old Hu Minghua was executed for abducting and trafficking nine children from...
From BBC News: Nine Chinese oil workers abducted in Nigeria’s Delta region have been freed after 11 days in captivity. The men, seized from the offices of China’s National Petroleum Company, were freed after “complex efforts”, China’s foreign ministry said. All nine were safe and well and were handed back to their company in Bayelsa […]
From the Stateman: Five Chinese workers abducted earlier this month in Nigeria described their experience as “hell on earth” after arriving in Beijing following their 13-day ordeal, state media reported on Tuesday. The five were freed in Nigeria”s oil-producing delta after gunmen broke into the rented apartment on a construction site where the five were […]
From BBC News: Five Chinese telecommunications workers have been kidnapped by unidentified armed men in southern Nigeria. Gunmen seized the men near Port Harcourt in the oil-rich Niger Delta, where many similar abductions have taken place in recent months. The Chinese embassy in Abuja said it had appealed to the Nigerian authorities for help in […]
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