On March 21, 2014, four rights defense lawyers, Jiang Tianyong Tang Jitian, Wang Cheng, and Zhang Junjie, who went to the Jiansanjiang Farm Authorities in Heilongjiang Province to investigate human rights abuses in its so-called “Legal Education Center,” were unlawfully detained and tortured by police. A few dozen citizens from around the country who subsequently came to ask for the lawyers’ release were also detained and beaten up by police. This violent incident against regular...

The biggest political "tiger" - a corrupt top official - in the history of the People's Republic of China is about to be caged.

Zhou Yongkang, the former internal head of security, member of the politburo and part of the Jiang Zemin political faction will soon be arrested and face trial for corruption.

Zhou was instrumental in carrying out Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners along with Bo Xilai, Luo Gan, and other members of the faction. These three men in...

On 1st March, 2014 just after 9pm at Kunming railway station, 8 young persons wearing black uniforms and holding large knives, some almost a meter long, attacked people in the railway square and also inside the ticketing area. 33 are confirmed dead, over 140 injured and some still in a critical...

The Chinese Communist  Party (CCP) ghost is still behind every building block of Chinese society, while China’s economy has expanded to a scale comparable to that of the U.S.  People who live in a society that doesn’t require having to face  the CCP in their daily lives tend to underestimate the Party’s impact.

Although the U.S. government and the American people have never been China’s enemy,  due to their conflicting ideologies,  U.S.  democracy and its values have...

We strongly condemn China’s ruling regime for sentencing, on January 26th, 2014, internationally respected scholar and rights activist Xu Zhiyong to four years of imprisonment. The conviction for “gathering a crowd to disturb public order” represents a shameful escalation of the Communist leadership’s suppression of the citizen movement demanding the public disclosure of government officials’ assets, a universally accepted practice for preventing government corruption in all...

A more virulent form of H7N9 bird flu in China in 2014 is probable as the virus can now be spread between humans and animals through contact.

According to the Health Department of Zhejiang province, in January 2014, there have been 46 cases confirmed as H7N9, including 12 deaths and 36 still in...

China says it has completed its massive relocation project of Tibetan nomads into new settlements in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. The controversial project has been denounced, though, by Tibetans living in exile and by Chinese environmental activists.

Since 2006, China has been moving nomads into crowded new settlements in various places, including the Tibetan Autonomous Region [TAR] and Qinghai Province.

China's official Tibet TV website...

Authorities in Nanjing have built a small building dubbed the "Baby Box" in which parents can anonymously abandon their unwanted children.
The "Baby Box" according to communist authorities, will provide a 'safe' place for parents to leave their children who will then be cared for at the nearby Nanjing Welfare Home.
The space will be...

Chinese business executive Chen Guangbiao has come to New York. He calls himself “China's most outstanding philanthropist and moral leader.” But what a sort of person is he actually? From recorded material obtained by NTD reporters, we can see he...

1. Air pollution

At the beginning of January 2013, thick clouds of dust covered large areas of north east China. Four provinces were affected at the time. including Beijing, and the heavy dust spread to 25 provinces in China along the east coast and northern region in the following months. Some days the

Speculation about the whereabouts of Chinese film Director Zhang Yimou, who was accused of breaking the country’s family planning laws, by allegedly having sired 7 children, keeps on making headlines in Chinese media, but no details have emerged of any fines being levied by authorities.

In contrast, the news that a...