Minitrue: Follow the Official Line on Meng Extradition
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | May 9, 2019
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Sophie Beach | May 1, 2019
American citizen Mark Swidan has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve in the drug...
by Josh Rudolph | Apr 30, 2019
Canadian citizen Fan Wei has been sentenced to death by a court in Guangdong for his alleged...
by Cindy | Jan 14, 2019
The Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in Liaoning province sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd...
by Cindy | Dec 28, 2018
Chinese state media reported Thursday that a Chinese court will this weekend hear a Canadian...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 19, 2017
A proliferating opioid overdose crisis in North America stemming from hyper-potent synthetic...
by Cindy | Dec 17, 2016
Since coming to power nearly six months ago, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a...
by Cindy | Nov 28, 2014
Tania Branigan at The Guardian reports that a North Korean professor has been arrested for...
by Natalie Ornell | Mar 11, 2014
The Economist explains why smuggling iron ore to China has become a popular activity for Mexican...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 2, 2014
A massive police raid in Boshe Village in Lufeng City, Guangdong uncovered three tons of...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 10, 2013
While not yet as popular or widespread as heroin, or as addictive as meth, ketamine use is...
by Scott Greene | Sep 26, 2013
Drug traffickers in the Golden Triangle are struggling to keep up with soaring demand in China,...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 15, 2013
Australia’s ABC News’ Foreign Correspondent show has produced an investigative report...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 1, 2013
Drug lord Naw Kham and three other foreigners were executed in Kunming on Friday for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River. State broadcaster CCTV aired the prisoners’ final hours, together with...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 20, 2013
China mulled the use of drone-delivered explosives to kill a wanted drug lord, who was later captured and sentenced to death for the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong river in 2011. The plan was revealed in a...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 3, 2013
Currently traveling in China, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes that while authorities are quick to crack down on political speech online, it is not difficult to by drugs, guns or prostitutes via the Internet:...
by Melissa M. Chan | Nov 6, 2012
CDT previously reported on the murder of Chinese sailors on the Mekong River and on the following investigation. Chinese state media reports the principal suspect and three others in the attack have been sentenced to death, from...
by Samuel Wade | May 21, 2012
In March, Wen Jiabao told a State Council conference that corruption is “the most crucial threat” to Party rule; this month, Murong Xuecun wrote in The New York Times that because of it, “no roads are...