China’s Social Credit System

Hong Kong (AFP) A Chinese cartoonist whose anonymous political satire earned him comparisons with Banksy -- and the wrath of Beijing -- has outed himself as a former law school student who became politicised after watching a Tiananmen Square documentary in a…

China has proposed to award citizens who score high in its social credit system by giving them priorities to move to cities and find jobs.  The 'credible' citizens may also expect to enjoy fast track service while choosing kindergartens for their children, f…

A MYSTERIOUS moving light has been spotted in the sky above multiple cities in China, fuelling speculation that Beijing is secretly testing a new nuclear missile. The unidentified sighting was said to have occurred about 4.28am on Sunday and was witnessed by…

BEIJING, June 4 (Reuters) - With a cryptic message about UFOs and a picture of a missile launcher, China's military has hinted that it has carried out a test of a new missile, after images of an object streaking towards the sky circulated on Chinese social me…

Beijing (AFP) - Beijing marked 30 years since the deadly Tiananmen crackdown on Tuesday with a wall of silence and extra security, as the anniversary turned into a diplomatic slugfest between the United States and China. Police checked the identification car…

BEIJING - Focus Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China’s economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression in the country is harsher than many who watched those events would have anticipated. Hundreds of thousands of Mu…

BEIJING Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China's economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression in the country is harsher than many who watched those events would have anticipated. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are…

BEIJING Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, Chinas economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression in the country is harsher than many who watched those events would have anticipated. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are …

Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China's economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression is harsher than ever. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without charge, student activists face rel…

BEIJING, China Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China's economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression is harsher than ever. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without charge, student acti…