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Chinese Aids whistleblower dies at 95
AFP, Published on 12/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - A dissident doctor who became China's most outspoken and celebrated AIDS campaigner, spending years under government pressure before finding refuge in the United States, has died at the age of 95, a long-time supporter told AFP.
Chinese battle web censors to vent lockdown anger
Published on 23/04/2022
» Chinese internet users have rallied to outwit government censors on a video documenting weeks of lockdown in Shanghai, flooding social media feeds as frustration continued to escalate over strict Covid Zero rules.
Year in review: The winners and losers of 2020
News, Published on 04/01/2021
» As 2021 begins -- not soon enough for most of us -- we take one last look at the year that was.
'We all survived': Wuhan artists keep virus memories alive
AFP, Published on 04/12/2020
» WUHAN (CHINA) - A melancholy guitar melody intertwines with an ethereal beat as wild-haired singer Lu Yan intones his hometown's feelings into a microphone: "Virus in Wuhan. We all survived."
Beijing passes law to protect medical whistleblowers
AFP, Published on 28/09/2020
» BEIJING - Beijing's city government will protect "non-malicious" medical whistleblowers under a new law, passed months after a Chinese doctor was punished for sounding the alarm at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wuhan doctor at whistleblower's hospital dies from coronavirus
AFP, Published on 02/06/2020
» BEIJING: A Wuhan doctor who worked with coronavirus whistleblower Li Wenliang died of the virus last week, state media reported Tuesday, becoming China's first Covid-19 fatality in weeks.
China's assault on reality a game
News, Editorial, Published on 10/05/2020
» On April 30, journalist Chen Jieren was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a number of charges, including "attacking and vilifying" the Chinese Communist Party and government.
Donald Trump and the 'Yellow Peril'
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/05/2020
» It was completely predictable that Donald Trump would try to blame China for the fact that at least 30 million Americans are unemployed and that 70,000 Americans have already died of Covid-19. His polling numbers are down and the election is only seven months away. What else was he going to do? Blame himself?
China's misplaced pandemic propaganda
Asia focus, Published on 13/04/2020
» Barely a month ago, China was in the grip of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. Thousands of new infections were being confirmed every day. Hospitals were overwhelmed. People were dying by the hundreds. People couldn't leave their homes.
Spain extends lockdown: world update
Published on 04/04/2020
» Spain said on Saturday that it would extend its lockdown by two weeks to April 25 after the number of coronavirus cases surpassed those in Italy, even as deaths declined slightly.