Beijing has issued its first ever red alert warning for smog.

Half of the city's vehicles have been ordered off the road, and factories and schools are closing as the PM2.5 particle readings climbed toward 300 micrograms per cubic meter, compared with the World Health Organisation's safe level of 25. The heavy smog is not expected to improve until Thursday.

Since November 28, toxic air has smothered northern China, increasing to hazardous levels in the ensuing...

Since Chinese human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng was released from prison on August 7th, 2014, he has been under house arrest at his father-in-law’s home, and has been closely monitored by the Public Security Bureau.

However, according to his wife Geng He, who now lives in the U.S., she has not been able to contact Gao since November 30th, and her daily calls resulted  in a "number does not exist" message. Calls to the local police station were hung up on when Gao's name was...

On 24th Oct, state media reported that the Chinese Anti-Corruption Department had arrested the General Secretary of the Chinese Taoist Association, Wang Zheyi, who is also the communist party branch secretary of the Taoist Society for criminal offences, and that other "improper activities" are under investigation.

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Chinese online bill-pay system, Alipay, belonging to the Alibaba group, and similar to the western Paypal, recently issued a new insurance policy, to partly indemnify those who help the elderly after they fall in the streets.

What does this mean?

In China, people are afraid to help if they see an elderly person fall in the...

Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been jailed, tortured, and 'disappeared', many times over the last several years for his speaking out for persecuted minorities, such as Falun Gong, Christians and Uyghurs, released an open letter to coincide with the communist leader Xi Jingping's visit to the United States.

Gao is still under surveillance by communist thugs and his travel is restricted, but the years of communist persecution have not been able to silence...

For more than two years, Epoch Times has been investigating the shadowy organizations behind the Chinese regime’s cyberattacks. Through research and on-and-off-the-record interviews with experts in the defense and intelligence community, it has exposed the structure of China’s spy organizations, their involvement in human rights abuses, and how they developed a system to steal innovation from the West.

An appeal to all Member States to join the global convention banning the secret abduction or imprisonment of persons has been made by the UN Secretary-General on the fourth International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.

In a message on the Day, observed annually on 30 August, Ban Ki-moon denounced the "alarming" number of acts that are tantamount to forced disappearances.

Some men arrive. They force their way into a family’s home, rich or poor...

China's Guizhou province is the poorest area in China, with many villages still receiving a special government allowance. In the past couple of decades, much of the allowance funds have been"highjacked" by top officials, and cases of people...

On July 1, 2015, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) marked its 94th anniversary with celebrations extolling the “glorious history” of the Party. People in a dyeing and weaving factory in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province chose a different approach. All 1,000 Party members in the factory renounced their membership in the CCP together.

This revealed an ongoing, but not widely reported phenomenon in China: Tuidang (退党), the movement to renounce Communism.

It is not an...

Several provisions of China’s Supreme People’s Court took effect on May 1, stating that the courts will now accept written complaints without exception, in order to protect citizens’ legal right to sue. These complaints cannot be automatically rejected as they were in the past. As a result, a flood of lawsuits has come in against...

Zhou Yongkang had a dream to make his son, Zhou Bing the first "elected president of China"; Bo Xilai, too, dreamed of making his son Bo Guagua, a...

The daughter-in-law of Zeng Qinghong, (former vice-president of the Chinese regime), Jiang Mei, was reported by overseas Chinese media as working with Dai Yongge, to launder billions of yuan overseas for corrupt officials.

Who is Dai Yongge?  Dai, born into an ordinary family in Heilongjiang province in China, earned his fame (shame)