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Watch: Thousands Of Protesters In Taiwan Sing “Do You Hear The People Sing?”...
On Saturday, more than 30,000 100,000 people marched in Taipei, as citizens remain furious over the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of 24-year-old conscript Hung Chung-chiu on July 4....
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Petitioner’s Tales: The Complaints You’re Not Supposed To Hear
For those who have been wronged in China, the last best chance for official redress is at the State Bureau of Letters and Calls in Beijing. When all other options fail, this is where the people go —...
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Hackers Post Anti-CCP Mooncakes To Shaoxing Government Website
Hackers have infiltrated the local government website of the city of Shaoxing, Zhejiang province (sx.gov.cn) and replaced four of the five pictures in the “featured images” slider with mooncakes that...
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Ningbo Media Attacked, Literally, For Yuyao Disaster Reporting
True objectivity in journalism may be an unachieveable ideal — the craft is as much about storytelling as reporting, with the requisite narrative structures that confirm or deny bias — but that...
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Goddamnit, Asian Americans
Photo via Time from San Francisco protest on October 28 against ABC and Jimmy Kimmel, because of the “kill everyone in China” joke. Hitler? This is the stuff I expect out of Global Times, not fellow...
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Liao Yiwu Streaked In Stockholm Again In Honor Of Liu Xiaobo
A group of Chinese dissidents and exiles ran naked on a chilly night outside the Stockholm Concert Hall on Tuesday, December 10, and published a declaration undersigned by Liao Yiwu (pictured above),...
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Lanzhou Workers Threaten Suicide To Claim Unpaid Wages
Adapted with permission from Hug China. Confrontations over unpaid wages are common in China, especially in the run-up to the lunar new year (it falls on January 31 this year), as this is often the...
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Wuhan Students Demonstrate For Dignified Treatment Of China’s Sex Workers
Adapted with permission from Hug China. Four female students from Wuhan University in Hubei province demonstrated on February 14 to call for respect for sex workers in China. One student held up a...
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No Survivors On MH370, Says Malaysian PM, Sparking Sanctioned Protest In Beijing
In a televised statement on Monday at Lido Hotel in Beijing, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which has now been missing for 18 days, likely “ended in the...
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Hundreds Gather In Brooklyn To Support Ai Weiwei And Freedom Of Expression
PEN America organized a protest called “Take a Stand for Free Expression in China: An Evening of Literary Protest” last Thursday, April 10, in front of the Brooklyn Public Library in New York. Ai...
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Chinese Grandmothers Hold Nude Protest Outside US Embassy [NSFW]
The above was tweeted out by @beidajin this afternoon: around 10 am today* outside the US embassy in Beijing, four grandmothers from Xinyang city, Henan province took off their clothes and raised...
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The US Embassy In Beijing As Stage For Chinese Protests
“Unjust” The people huddled at the front gates of the US Embassy in Beijing last November were not there to protest the flight of US bombers over contested islands in the East China Sea. Instead, they...
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Let Them Drink Champagne
Here’s Hong Kong chief executive CY Leung toasting with champagne to celebrate the People’s Republic of China’s National Day. Meanwhile, outside… A different kind of commemoration… Anger and tear gas....
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Hong Kong Fighting Hong Kong: An On-The-Ground Account Of Occupy Central
A dispatch from Hong Kong, where life – parties, business — continues as usual… with one high-profile exception. It’s Day 8 of Occupy Central, or Umbrella Revolution, if you will. A few nights ago I...
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Watch: Hong Kongers Skirmish As Occupy Central Barricades Removed
Many of the barricades near Occupy Central began coming down this morning, but not without resistance. I took the above video at 1:40 pm today on Queensway in Admiralty, just below Hong Kong’s police...
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