Independent online publication Citizen News has become the third company to close in Hong Kong as media fears grow amid the rise in the Chinese crackdown. The company said its shut down had been triggered by the closure of Stand News, a pro-democracy media outlet.

Hong Kong: Third news company shutters amid Chinese crackdown on dissent

From entertainment to technology, there is scarcely any sector left that Chinese President Xi Jinping hasn't cracked down upon in 2021. As a result of the stinging regulations imposed by the Communist Party of China in the name of ''common prosperity,'' the country's firms are dropping out of the list of top 10 most valuable firms.

The year China went rogue on itself: Will crackdowns hamper economic growth?

A new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has revealed that China is the world's biggest captor of journalists. Accusing the country of conducting an ''unprecedented campaign of repression,'' the 82-page document highlights how China is violating its own international commitments to freedom of opinion and expression.

'Unprecedented campaign of repression': China is world's biggest captor of journalists

JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said on Wednesday he regretted his remarks that the Wall Street bank would last longer than China's Communist Party (CPC), moving quickly to avoid any longer-term fallout.

Dimon says he regrets comment on JPMorgan outlasting China Communist Party

The top leaders of China's ruling Communist Party convened on Monday for a crucial meeting that is likely to strengthen President Xi Jinping's grip on power. Some 400 members of the party's powerful Central Committee convened in Beijing for the four-day plenary, which is being held behind closed doors, as with all meetings of China's secretive leadership.

Xi's further grip on power at China Communist Party meet will make him another Mao

The coronavirus cases in China have reached a three-month high despite increase in measures to curb the infections, just ahead of a key conclave of the ruling Communist Party.

Just ahead of Communist Party conclave, China's Covid cases hit three-month high

China's national legislature on Friday formally endorsed the three-child policy mooted by the ruling Communist Party, in a major policy shift aimed to prevent a steep decline in birth rates in the world's most populous country.

China approves three-child policy with sops to encourage couples to have more children

China has opened the doors on what it bills as the world's largest planetarium in its latest space propaganda. The slick new Shanghai facility showcases the nation's recent extra-terrestrial exploits while notably downplaying those of space pioneers like the United States.

Space propaganda: China opens doors to world's largest planetarium

China has blocked paid after-school tutoring services provided by teachers working for public primary and middle schools. The country's Ministry of Education issued sweeping rules last week that bar for-profit after-school tutoring in core school subjects, in an effort to boost the birth rate by lowering family living costs.

China blocks paid after-school tutoring by public-school teachers

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday hailed an "irreversible" course from colonial humiliation to great-power status at the centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party.

President Xi Jinping hails 'irreversible' rise of China on Communist Party centenary

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday lauded the work of three astronauts building China's first space station as opening "new horizons" in humanity's bid to explore the cosmos.

Xi Jinping holds space chat with astronauts, lauds 'new horizons' for humanity

The Jiaman mosque in the city of Qira, in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, is hidden behind high walls and Communist Party propaganda signs, leaving passersby with no indication that it is home to a religious site.

Mosques disappear as China strives to 'build beautiful Xinjiang'

The New Zealand parliament declared "severe human rights abuses" were taking place in China, but stopped short of labelling the situation as a "genocide". China's treatment of the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province has been unanimously voted as a severe human rights abuse on Wednesday in New Zealand parliament.

New Zealand slams China's treatment of Uighurs, doesn't label it 'genocide'

Elon Musk's Tesla has issued a rare apology after coming under pressure in China on Wednesday from regulators and state media over a viral video of a disgruntled customer at the Shanghai auto show.

Tesla issues rare apology after coming under pressure over disgruntled customer's viral video

Human Rights Watch has said in a new report that China is committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of the Uighur ethnic minority and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, with Beijing responsible for “policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offences”.

'Break their lineage, break their roots': Report details Chinese authorities’ torture, rape of Uighur Muslims

Chinese technology giant Alibaba said on Monday that it has accepted the penalty and "will ensure its compliance with determination". Alibaba executive vice-chairman Joe Tsai said that other than a review of the company's mergers and acquisitions, which the company's peers also face, it does not expect further investigation from the antitrust regulator.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba accepts record China fine, vows to change

Chinese officials on Friday aired a video of a thin Uighur man with a shaved head, wearing an oversized uniform and speaking directly to the camera. The video is one of over half a dozen such segments showing Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority in the western region, pleading with relatives abroad to come home and stop speaking out against China and the ruling Communist Party.

China takes aim at overseas Uighurs, academics criticising Communist Party

Soldiers in the Chinese military will receive loyalty lessons to the Communist Party and its leader President Xi Jinping for the party's 100 birthday this year as a part of a campaign.

Chinese military to get loyalty lessons as party gears up for 100th birthday

Some days, Cathy Yau wanders down dark alleys looking for rats to poison. Other days, she helps food banks deliver meals to older people. Often her phone rings with calls from constituents: neighbors asking about their rights during a police stop-and-frisk, or how to best navigate the city’s welfare bureaucracy.

How Hong Kong’s lowliest politicians became its champions of freedom

Detained Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was in court Monday trying to win bail in the first major legal challenge to a sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city last year.

Pro-democracy tycoon in landmark challenge to Hong Kong security law

To increase the power of the Central Military Commission (CMC) over its State Council, China has amended its National Defence Law from January 1 to mobilise military and civilian resources in defence of the 'national interest' at home and abroad.

China increases military's powers over State Council by altering defense law

With 2020 coming to an end, while countries worldwide are sliding into recession due to the coronavirus pandemic, the People’s Republic of China has bounced back to moderate economic growth.

China in 2021: What's in store?

A highly secretive conclave of the Communist Party is about to be held. It is a meeting that even the Chinese President Xi Jinping is afraid to attend. It's a conference that happens far away from the limelight of Beijing.

China's President Xi Jinping dreads Beidaihe summit, here's why!

China has, of late, been fighting many a war. First of the many wars is what may be called the 'people's war' -- the Wuhan virus. Another is the territorial war to usurp land it doesn't control -- the new security law imposed on Hong Kong.

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