At a recent summit in Ethiopia, the African Union (AU) decided to approve a 15-year continent-wide ban on the slaughter of donkeys for their hides. Donkey hides are a key component of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)...
Beijing’s COVID outbreak seems to have widened after the abandonment of China’s long-held zero-COVID policy. Daily reported new cases have dropped dramatically due to the end of mass testing but accounts and videos out of the...
Popular health-focused outlet DXY is the latest popular science outlet to run afoul of China’s censors and online nationalists. Five DXY Weibo accounts, with a combined total of more than 30 million followers, were...
The CDT Censorship Digest is a monthly round-up of censored speech, propaganda developments, and rights defense in China. We have selected and adapted the most relevant and interesting stories for our English readers. We...
CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
CDT Chinese editors selected their 10 top news stories of 2017, which were published on the...
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
On October 5, 2015, 84-year-old pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was one of three recipients...
Efforts to eradicate the inhumane practice of bear bile harvesting have gained some traction in...
After a Chinese delegate admitted that Beijing allows a trade in skins from captive tigers at a...
At Think Africa Press, James Wan reports that 200,000 Ugandans have signed up for a company which...
The New York Times reports that wildlife management regulations proposed in China may actually...
Following a million-strong breakout from a Jiangsu cockroach farm in August, The Los Angeles...
Laura Johannes writes at The Wall Street Journal that recent studies have discovered...
A report on The World discusses the Chinese tradition called “zuo yue zi”, when women enter a month of bed rest with their babies after giving birth. Ruth Morris reports that in China’s expanding confinement...
A Greenpeace investigation of Chinese herbal products (PDF) reveals that high concentrations of pesticides are polluting the environment and making China’s traditional medicine harmful to human health. From Sue-Lin Wong...
The Wall Street Journal’s senior editor Bob Davis shares a whimsical travel account of his visit to Tongcheng People’s Hospital in China where he sought medical treatment after breaking his ribs on a hike in the...
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