All Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers have resigned after Beijing forced the removal of four of their colleagues. On Wednesday Beijing passed a resolution allowing the city’s government to dismiss politicians deemed a threat to national […]
A Chinese court has sentenced a nursery teacher to death for poisoning 25 children, one of whom died. Wang Yun was arrested last year after children at a kindergarten in Jiaozuo city were rushed to […]
A former real estate tycoon and an outspoken critic of China’s President Xi Jinping has been sentenced to 18 years in jail on charges of corruption. A court in Beijing found Ren Zhiqiang “guilty of […]
Hong Kong business tycoon Jimmy Lai has been arrested for suspected collusion with foreign forces, his aide has said. Mark Simon said the businessman was held under the controversial national security law imposed by China […]
A man in eastern China has been acquitted of murder and freed after spending 27 years in prison. Zhang Yuhuan maintained he was tortured by police and forced to confess to the murder of two […]
Chinese students in Sydney are being targeted in a kidnapping scam forcing them to pay massive ransoms to fraudsters, Australian police say. In many cases, blackmailed students were forced to stage their own kidnapping and […]
China has charged two Canadians with spying, more than 18 months after they were detained. Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, a businessman, have been held in China since December 2018. Their arrests […]
An Australian man has been sentenced to death in China for drug smuggling, the Australian government has confirmed. The man was named in Australian media as Karm or Cam Gilespie. He is believed to have […]
For the first time in modern Swedish history, an ex-ambassador has gone on trial and faces a possible jail term. Anna Lindstedt is accused of going beyond her remit by holding unauthorised talks with a […]
A Canadian court has ruled that the case of senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who is fighting extradition to the United States, can go forward. A judge found that the case meets the threshold of […]
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