5 Jan 2013

A Hunan dissident charged with "inciting subversion of state power" following the death of democracy activist Li Wangyang was placed under "residential surveillance" at an undisclosed location...

4:40AM
23 Dec 2012

The vice-chairman of the League of Social Democrats was arrested yesterday for throwing his T-shirt off a footbridge to catch the attention of President Hu Jintao during his visit on July 1.

4:55AM
23 Sep 2012

Despite a recent series of scandals in Hunan , provincial party secretary Zhou Qiang is still seen as a contender for promotion to the powerful Politburo at the Communist Party's upcoming 18th...

2:51PM
23 Sep 2012

Parents want to know national education plan

3:08AM
18 Sep 2012

A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist plans to ask the United Nations to press Beijing for a new inquiry into the death of mainland June 4 dissident Li Wangyang.

6:04PM
14 Sep 2012

Journalist groups in the city have slammed Hunan authorities for detaining two Hong Kong reporters who interviewed the family of late mainland dissident Li Wangyang .

2:59AM

Family members of the late mainland dissident Li Wangyang have denied ever accepting an official autopsy report that found the activist’s death was suicide, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on...

5:24PM

An Australian forensics professor has pointed to puzzling elements surrounding the death of dissident Li Wangyang at a hospital in Shaoyang in June.

But Dr Stephen Cordner said not enough...

3:42AM

A friend of pro-democracy activist Li Wangyang who challenged a police finding that Li committed suicide in a hospital has been formally arrested by police on subversion charges, according to a...

11:20PM

The Communist Party's top official in Hunan province has broken his silence on the death of Tiananmen dissident Li Wangyang to reiterate the findings of a recent investigation that ruled it was...

10:42PM

Food and Health Secretary Dr Ko Wing-man (pictured) said he was shocked by former development chief Mak Chai-kwong's alleged abuse of a civil service rent subsidy in the 1980s and Mak's subsequent...

9:42PM

What's the best way to vent anger about rowdy protesters constantly gathering outside your home? By staging a protest of your own, of course.

9:25PM

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