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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — One of Hong Kong’s best-known democracy activists was banned Saturday from standing as lawmaker in upcoming elections, the latest blow to freedoms in the city as Beijing tightens its grip. Agnes Chow, 21, a former leader of the mass Umbrella Movement protests of 2014 that called for political reform, had her nomination rejected because she supports self-determination for the semi-autonomous city, the government said. It comes as fears grow that […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a “lunar lab” in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon. Four students crammed into a 160-square-metre (1,720-square-foot) cabin called “Yuegong-1” — Lunar Palace — on the campus of Beihang University, testing the limits of humans’ ability to live in a self-contained space, the official Xinhua news agency said. The volunteers lived […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – Chinese internet giant Tencent said on Friday it will take a stake in the US production company behind the “Mission: Impossible” and “Terminator” series, marking China’s latest incursion into Hollywood. The deal will give Tencent the opportunity to co-finance Skydance Media films, which will benefit from the Chinese firm’s distribution and marketing in the world’s second-largest movie market, firms said in a statement. It did not provide financial details but the Los Angeles […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – Chinese authorities detained a prominent human rights lawyer on Friday, people familiar with the case said, just hours after he provided journalists with a letter calling for constitutional reform. Around a dozen people, including a SWAT team, seized Yu Wensheng as he left his Beijing apartment to walk his child to school, two sources told AFP. Local police said they were unaware of his detention. Yu has been a persistent voice for reform in […]
by Elaine Yu Agence France-Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) – Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was jailed for the second time Wednesday for his role in mass pro-democracy protests as concern grows that prison terms for young campaigners are shutting down debate in the semi-autonomous city as Beijing increases control. Wong, 21, who became the face of the 2014 Umbrella Movement, was handed a three-month sentence on a contempt charge for obstructing clearance of a major […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – China on Friday rejected accusations that it had helped Pyongyang skirt sanctions after US President Donald Trump claimed on Twitter that Beijing was turning a blind eye to oil transfers to North Korea. Trump’s tweet was the latest salvo in his battle to persuade China to tighten the economic screws on Pyongyang over its missile and nuclear programmed, in a campaign that has seen him heap both praise and criticism on Beijing. “Caught […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – At least 10,000 people were killed in the Chinese army’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, according to a newly released British secret diplomatic cable that gives gruesome details of the bloodshed in Beijing. “Minimum estimate of civilian dead 10,000,” the then British ambassador Alan Donald said in a telegram to London. The document, made public more than 28 years after the event, was seen by AFP at Britain’s […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – The US, South Korea and Japan carried out joint exercises Monday to track missiles from North Korea, as China warned that such manoeuvres fuel tensions following nuclear-armed Pyongyang’s longest-range test launch to date. The trilateral drill comes less than two weeks after Pyongyang test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and declared it had achieved nuclear statehood, escalating global alarm over its weapons push. The two-day exercise — the sixth since […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A fire tore through a house in Beijing Saturday killing 19 people and injuring eight, Chinese state media said. The inferno broke out in Beijing’s southern Daxing district, Xinhua news agency said, citing local authorities. The report did not specify the cause but said an unspecified number of suspects were in police custody. Xinhua said the fire was brought under control some three hours after it erupted and that the injured […]
by Becky Davis Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) – A top Chinese envoy landed in North Korea on Friday in a trip hailed as a “big move” by US President Donald Trump, who has urged Beijing to pile pressure on its nuclear-armed ally. Diplomat Song Tao is visiting the North on behalf of President Xi Jinping to brief officials on the recent Chinese Communist Party congress and other “issues of mutual interest,” foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said. […]
(Eagle News) — United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping both promised greater cooperation and stronger friendship between the two countries when they met for the first time in Beijing, China. Xi and his first lady, warmly welcomed Trump who was with First Lady Melania Trump in Beijing. China’s sincere welcome for US President was marked with regal fluorish, rolling out the red carpet for Trump at the Forbidden City, […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China and Vietnam reached an agreement on managing their dispute in the South China Sea through friendly talks, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Friday (November 3) in a news briefing held in Beijing. This followed an ugly spat over the summer between the two communist neighbours. The countries had been at loggerheads over the strategic waterway, through which more than $3 trillion in cargo passes every year, with Vietnam having […]
