Officials in Chinese cities and provinces across the country are pulling no punches in stamping out sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks as winter nears, quickly closing venues and enforcing longer temporary lockdowns on millions of people. Cases in mainland China hit 2,898 on Sunday, topping 2,000 for a second straight day and pressuring the country’s controversial[…]
Muslim-majority countries from Africa and Middle East voted overwhelmingly with Beijing The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday voted against a western-led motion to hold a debate on alleged widespread abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region after intense lobbying by Beijing. The United States and allies[…]
Former Chinese Justice Minister Fu Zhenghua, who had led several high-profile investigations into corruption, has been jailed for life for accepting bribes, state media said on Thursday, as a purge of officials intensified ahead of a key Communist Party congress. Fu, 67, was handed a suspended death sentence that will[…]
INTERNATIONAL China’s detention of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang may amount to “crimes against humanity”, the United Nations human rights office said in a long-delayed report that was finally published late on Wednesday. The 45-page report (PDF) called on Beijing to immediately[…]
INTERNATIONAL When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the discovery of the world’s second-largest rare earth elements reserve in Turkey’s Eskisehir last month, a slew of experts and reports questioned the quality and reliability of the 694-million tonne deposit. Now the man who is handling the mining operations has told Middle East Eye that he is[…]
INTERNATIONAL Acclaimed artists are due to lead a protest against China’s policies against the minority Uyghur community on the 13th anniversary of the Urumqi Massacre tomorrow. Some 1,000 Muslim Uyghur were killed in the massacre and 5,000 more were arrested by Chines authorities. To commemorate the event, Stand4Uyghurs Campaign is[…]
INTERNATIONAL The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations have pledged to raise $600bn in private and public funds over five years to finance infrastructure in developing countries and counter China’s older, multitrillion-dollar Belt and Road project. US President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders relaunched the newly renamed[…]
INTERNATIONAL Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is finally in China and travelling to Xinjiang nearly four years after first announcing her intention to visit the country amid concerns of serious human rights abuses in the northwestern region. Xinjiang is home to the Uighurs, a predominantly[…]
The SA Post Office has temporarily suspended its airmail service to China due to travel restrictions. SA Post Office spokesperson Johan Kruger said parts of China were in lockdown to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and air travel had been restricted. “Surface mail to China remains available,” he said. Meanwhile,[…]
China’s financial hub of Shanghai reported more new Covid-19 related deaths on Friday, as residents vented their anger over a harsh lockdown and strict censorship online. Shanghai’s full-city lockdown began at the start of April, though many people have been confined to their homes for much longer, and the stress[…]
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