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Thousands call for Liu Xiaobo's release

Hundreds of thousands of people across the world united on Wednesday to call on China’s new leader Xi Jinping to free imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia. More than 450,000 people from 130 countries signed a petition created by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to demand the couple’s immediate release.
Read more China's Charter 08

Kinesisk miljøaktivist slått gul og blå

Seksti år gamle Chen Yuqian hadde fått nok av forurensningen i hjemlandsbyen. I et forsøk på å bli hørt, oppfordret han den lokale partisjefen til å ta seg en svømmetur i elva i nærheten. Det skulle han ikke ha gjort. I stedet ble han overfalt av et førtitall sivilkledde politifolk og slått gul og blå.
Les mer Vanskelig å være grønn politiker i Kina

The horrific cruelty of China's tiger farms revealed

China is allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts – flouting a UN agreement which calls for such trade to be banned, according to an environmental lobby group. Read more

Huddled in filthy cages and starved to the extent their fur is hanging off their jutting bones, these once majestic creatures are mercilessly being killed to decorate the homes of the elite, while their bones

Ny pave må reparere forholdet til Kina

Av alle problemer som den neste paven vil arve, er det få som overgår det bitre forholdet mellom pavestolen og Kinas regjering. Vatikanet har diplomatiske forbindelser med Republikken Kina (Taiwan), men ikke med den kinesiske folkerepublikken. Les mer

Children Toil in India’s Mines, Despite Legal Ban

Poverty, corruption, decrepit schools and absentee teachers are among the causes, and there is no better illustration of the problem than the Dickensian “rathole” mines here in the state of Meghalaya. Read more

Chinese Intellectuals Urge Ratifying Rights Treaty

More than 100 Chinese scholars, journalists, lawyers and writers urged their national legislature on Tuesday to ratify a major human rights treaty, in the latest challenge from intellectuals seeking to curtail arbitrary Communist Party power. Read more

A mild breeze in the Taiwan Straits

Eight years ago, Taiwan's Lien
Chan visited China for the first time since
fleeing as a child amid civil war in 1946. Last week, the senior Kuomintang politician visited the Mainland once again. Read more

- I was born by the side of Chairman Mao

Observers are wondering whether members of the the generation who now run China, are reviving their Mao emotions.The Mao faithful are hoping, and liberal intellectuals and private entrepreneurs are worried, that party leader Xi Jinping will symbolically foreclose any short-term possibility of political reform by holding a big celebration of Mao's 120th birthday at the end of this year. Read

- Nei, Grønland tilhører ikke Kina

Kina er på råvarejakt over hele verden. Nå ønsker det Kina-dominerte selskapet London Mining å investere store summer i grønlandsk gruveindustri. Journalist Martin Breum i dansk radio forteller hva son skjer. Les mer

Kinesiske hackere blir stadig dyktigere

Kinesiske hackere, statlige som private, blir stadig mer avanserte. I USA og andre andre land ringer alarmen: Hvis de kinesiske lederne ikke får klar beskjed om at hackingen må opphøre, og handler deretter, kan verden stå overfor en kostbar og ødeleggende cyberkrig. Les mer