Max Lu

Jimmy Lai Tearfully Thanks the People of Hong Kong for Their Support

Founder  Jimmy Lai of the newspaper Apple Daily, launched a live broadcast on Twitter to share his feelings about his arrest and interacted with netizens. After being released on the morning of August 13, Jimmy Lai participated in the live broadcast together with guests Mark Clifford, the former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post; ...

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Jimmy Lai.

Indian Vice President Asks People to Promote Tradition of ‘Sharing and Caring’

Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice President of India, has asked people to preserve the tradition of living and working together. He made the statement at the celebrations marking 100 years since the birth of one of the former rulers of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore, Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar (1919 to 1974). Sharing and caring Naidu described ...

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Venkaiah Naidu.

Merdan Ghappar’s Video Exposes the Horrors of Xinjiang’s Internment Camps

Merdan Ghappar is a 31-year-old Uyghur from Xinjiang who has worked as a model for numerous clothing brands. In January this year, Chinese authorities arrested and sent him to a detention center. He hasn’t been heard from since March. Fortunately, Merdan Ghappar was able to sneak out a video and some text messages that ended ...

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Merdan Ghappar.

Chinese Company ByteDance Censored Content in Indonesia

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, engaged in censoring anti-China content in Indonesia between 2018 and mid-2020 according to media reports. The exposé comes amid growing American concern about the presence of Chinese apps in the U.S. ByteDance censoring content ByteDance bought the Indonesian news aggregator BaBe in 2018 following a brief ban of ...

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ByteDance.

Shadow Banking in China Surges During COVID-19 Outbreak

The COVID-19 outbreak has put many people under financial pressure. Since financial institutions have tightened lending, people are unable to get credit to make it through these difficult times. However, the shadow banking (informal lending) industry in China has seen remarkable growth in the first quarter of this year, according to a report by credit ...

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Chinese milling around.

Police in China Use Torture to Get Televised Confessions

Torture is commonly used by Chinese security to force a person to participate in a televised confession, says a new report submitted to the United Nations. Rights group Safeguard Defenders and several other NGOs submitted a comprehensive review on forced televised confessions before trial in China to nine United Nations Special Procedures on August 11. ...

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A coerced TV confession.

North Korean Female Prisoners: Exposing the Torture

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a 72-page report detailing the human rights abuses perpetrated by North Korean police and security officers on North Korean female prisoners. The report contains interviews with more than 100 North Korean female prisoners. Abusing North Korean female prisoners The interviewed women have one ...

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The North Korean capital.

Hidden Unemployment Crisis Looms in China

Is China facing an unemployment crisis? China’s unemployment rate in June was revealed to be 5.7 percent, which is lower than the February peak of 6.2 percent. The country’s unemployment rate has remained quite stable over the past decades, hovering around 4 percent to 5 percent. As such, the fact that the COVID-19 outbreak only ...

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A crowded Chinese sidewalk.

New Zealand: Anti-CCP Activists Mysteriously Die in Car Crash

Two ethnic anti-CCP activists were recently killed in a car crash in New Zealand while on their way to the Parliament to petition the government about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Three people were left injured in the crash. Some have speculated whether they were victims of sabotage given that the two dead victims, 48-year-old ...

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Car of the two anti-CCP activists who were killed.

CCP in Control: Hong Kong Financial Future Looking Grim

Several weeks have passed since Beijing forcefully implemented the National Security Law in Hong Kong, effectively ending the region’s autonomy and reducing it to yet another communist-controlled city. As a consequence, a city that has been regarded as the financial hub of East Asia is at risk of losing the trust of the international business ...

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Hong Kong skyline.