Category: Feature

Tina Chan Yuk-ting defies the stereotypes about someone her age, with her gray hair the only visible clue she is 72 years old. She stands without the slightest hint of a stoop, and speaks and moves in a lively manner. Pushing a trolley stacked with paint cans, brushes, and a new handrail, she is on…

The memories began rushing back as Kenneth strolled through Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, once a focal point for the city’s resistance to China. As a child, Kenneth would buy calligraphy posters from pro-democracy politicians at the annual Lunar New Year fair. Then there were the protest marches he joined as a teenager, that would always…

Earlier this month, China declared new “baselines” around Scarborough Reef, a large coral atoll topped by a handful of rocks barely above sea level in the South China Sea. By doing so, China reaffirmed its sovereignty claim over what has become a global flashpoint in the disputed waters. This was a pre-calculated response to the Philippines’ enactment of new…

The foreign ministers of the G7 nations, alongside the European Union High Representative, have expressed concerns over China’s human rights record, particularly in Tibet, East Turkestan, and Hong Kong and urged China to abide by international legal commitment. Their concerns were outlined in a collective statement following the second G7 Foreign Affairs Ministers’ meeting, hosted under Italy’s…

Exiled members of China’s Uyghur minority group accuse Beijing of human rights violations and say the Communist Party chief in the Xinjiang region where most of them are from has been more heavy-handed in his approach toward them than his predecessor. Members of the largely Turkic Muslim minority group said they had hoped Ma Xingrui,…