Over the summer, five scandals dominated Chinese social media: the stabbing of a Chinese school bus attendant in an anti-Japanese outburst; the suicide of a young diver after her coach raped her; the contamination of cooking oil...
Read MoreThe Hong Kong government dealt yet another blow to the city’s press freedom on Thursday when two former editors of local independent media outlet Stand News were found guilty of sedition. The judge, handpicked by Hong Kong’s...
Read MoreThis week, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a militant separatist group from Pakistan’s southwestern province, claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated attacks that left 73 people dead across numerous provinces....
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Shanghai, China, by Han Lei Photo (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read MoreChina dominates the global electric vehicle (EV) industry. Last year, China accounted for approximately 60 percent of global registrations of new electric vehicles, and China’s EV stock was over 4.5 times greater than that of...
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北京 大雪 送餐, by 大杨 (CC BY 2.0)
Read MoreThe Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler to register marriages and potentially more difficult to divorce. The proposed changes, billed as helping to create a “family...
Read MoreA photograph of a delivery driver forced to kneel before a neighborhood security guard in Hangzhou has inspired widespread calls for better labor protections for China’s working class. The viral image of the kneeling driver...
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King Qian’s Memorial, by Xiquinho Silva (CC BY 2.0)
Read MoreThe political atmosphere in Venezuela remains fraught in the weeks after its presidential election. While President Nicolás Maduro’s loyalist-packed supreme court backed his claim of victory on Thursday, the opposition produced...
Read MoreThis week, Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary To Lam wrapped up a three-day visit to China for his first official foreign visit since becoming his country’s top leader. Lam recently replaced his predecessor Nguyen Phu...
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Inception, by Gauthier DELECROIX (CC BY 2.0)
Read MoreMicroblogging platform Weibo is cracking down on speech about crackdowns on speech. In a weekly “safety” digest published to an official Weibo administrators’ account, the platform announced that it had...
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Flow of Light, by Rico Lee (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Read MoreA recent scandal involving the organized theft and trafficking of thousands of corpses that were later processed into bone-graft material for dental procedures has prompted horror among the Chinese public, and tremendous...
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