(Tianjin First Central Hospital- web image)

A foreign patient receives a life-extending organ transplant in a Chinese hospital. Feeling grateful, he asks a hospital staff member who the donor was so that he may give thanks and repayment.

But no one at the hospital—not even the transplant doctor—knows the donor’s identity.

Before his flight...

In March 1999, Nato electronic intelligence (Elint) detected the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade sending military signals for Milosevic's forces, after the communist Chinese had allowed the Yugoslav army to move its communication centre to the basement of the embassy.

The Chinese embassy was acting as a rebroadcast station for the Yugoslav army...

June 4 1989 - a day of infamy that will live forever in history despite the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) attempts to whitewash it.

Today is the 27th anniversary of the brutal massacre of peaceful university students by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on the orders of the CCP.

The exact number of unarmed students shot or crushed into the streets by tanks is not known but is probably in the thousands.

The Chinese communist regime still rounds up activists...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that, beginning January 1, 2015, it would stop the practice of using executed prisoners as donors for organ transplants, and that donated organs would be the sole source for organ transplants. However, according to the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG). its latest telephone investigation conducted during the period of January to November 2015, sampling 165 hospitals designated to perform organ...

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP’s) political structure fosters political rivalry

Some Western observers feel that Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is somehow confusing. It seems to them that, in addition to containing the widespread corruption in China, Xi also uses this campaign to purge officials who rival him politically.

That is likely to be the case. The structure of officialdom in China is quite different from that in the U.S. Xi is doing what he...

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.

Chinese...

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...