Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng said Wednesday he and his family have filled out passport application forms, and that Chinese authorities tell him travel documents should be issued by the end of the month.

Chen spoke to VOA's Mandarin service from a hospital room in Beijing, where he has been recovering for the past two weeks from injuries sustained during his dramatic escape from house arrest last month.

He said passport photos were taken and that the...

Full text of Chen Guangcheng video appeal: Three requests to Premier Wen Jiabao

Dear Premier Wen,

With tremendous difficulty I finally escaped. There are rumours and allegations spread on the Internet about violence and hostility against me.

As the direct victim, I state here that all those allegations are true, but the real...

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CNN reporters risked a third visit to Chen Guangcheng's home town even though 
Cheng and his family were not there!

CNN were chased out of the village of fugitive dissident Chen Guangcheng 
by communist security officers and thugs employed by them, CNN's Stan Grant 
reports.

"Yie Gong Hao Long"-means Mr. Yie who loves dragons.

Many, many years ago,  Mr. Yie was well known for his ardent love for dragons. Mr. Yie wrote many poems praising dragons. His mansion was decorated with carved dragons everywhere, dragons were painted on his utensils and embroidered on all his clothes.

The dragon king in heaven was deeply touched when he heard about this. He knew he was popular because people were awed by his authority, but he still wanted to meet Mr...

A few years ago an old monk, Huang Yousheng, who lives in Jinan, Shandong province, and who had been cultivating since a very young age, revealed that he had reached an enlightenment level and was able to communicate with an alien, whose code name...

A human rights organization has released phone transcripts that show Zhou Yongkang and other officials of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee (PLAC) of the Chinese Communist Party have participated in live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners.

David Matas, an international human rights lawyer who along with David Kilgour, published an independant report on organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, said: “Nobody denies anything, and everything is...

Last year after the Whenzhou train disaster, I wrote a satirical article titled "Hollywood’s latest blockbuster: Chase and Murder on China's Fast Train, which showcases the absurdity of Chinese bureaucracy.

But in fact, those dangerous conspiracies, corruption and pornography that were made up by western playwrights  would never surpass the actual events concealed by the Chinese communist bureaucracy. We can say without exaggeration, that all the scandals and crimes...

Warning: graphic photographs.

The following internal speech (was given in a meeting of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee, PLAC) was posted on the web by a Chinese blogger on January...

Since the arrest of Bo Xilai and his wife on April 11, the foreign media have been very excited but people may be ignoring one important change since then.

Before the couple was arrested, the majority opinion was that only those who overtly or covertly had certain relationships with the couple would support or defend these corrupt officials. Most people would support getting rid of this Second Mao as they loath the second cultural revolution, promoted by Bo. Some very naïve...

Case Summary: A special investigator of World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) carried on a conversation lasting almost 30 minutes with one person (“witness”). We have withheld his name out of concern for his safety. With the consent of the witness, the entire conversation was taped. The witness revealed a case of...