Authorities detain senior editors of Uyghur publishing house over “problematic” books
Radio Free Asia, November 12, 2018
德外长不满北京政府维族政策
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas calls for China transparency over Uighur Muslims
Deutsche Welle, November 12, 2018
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德国外长批评中国新疆维族政策 (During visit to China, German foreign minister says “we will not accept re-education camps”)
Radio France Internationale, November 12, 2018
Deletion of Wu Gan’s Twitter posts reflects the urgent need to protect Chinese human rights activists’ “data ownership”
China Change, November 11, 2018
中国严控网络 20多天查封近万个自媒体帐号 (China tightens Internet further by blocking more than 9,800 independent media accounts in past 10 days)
Radio France Internationale, November 12, 2018
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国家网信办“亮剑”自媒体乱象，依法严管将成为常态 (CAC: Tight restrictions on online media will become norm)
The Paper, November 12, 2018
China is struggling to explain Xi Jinping Thought: Universities have been mobilised to help
The Economist, November 8, 2018
发条微信 中大博士生遭搜查传讯 (University student summoned for interrogation over a WeChat message about churches teaching Chinese socialism instead of Bible
Radio Free Asia, November 12, 2018
中国加大对劳工抗议的打压
China extends crackdown on labour protests as activism spreads
Financial Times, November 12, 2018
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12名佳士声援者失踪：左派青年受压
Police detain Maoist labor activists on campuses across China: Group
Radio Free Asia, November 12, 2018
China: Student activists reported missing after campaigning for workers’ rights
The Independent, November 13, 2018
Tibetan residents of Gansu protest water diversion scheme
Radio Free Asia, November 12, 2018
Submission to UN on Yu Wensheng – November 8, 2018
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, November 8, 2018
宗教局查封山西家庭教會 官員：宗教信仰自由不代表宗教活動自由 (Shanxi family church banned, officials: Constitution protects freedom of religion, not freedom of religious activities)
The Stand News, November 12, 2018
China’s bankers grapple with new credit rules to private borrowers as officials sow confusion with flip-flopping policies
South China Morning Post, November 13, 2018
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam dismisses request from 17 former chiefs of Foreign Correspondents’ Club to clarify whether government considers it to be a neutral body
South China Morning Post, November 12, 2018
內地邊防部隊涉佔用香港土地 沙頭角建橋擅自過境
Hong Kong land occupied by Chinese border guards in Sha Tau Kok border area
FactWire, November 11, 2018
譚耀宗引述習近平：要求港澳「自覺維護國家安全」 納入國家治理新體系 (Xi Jinping tells Hong Kong and Macau representatives to be “self-conscious on protecting national security”)
The Stand News, November 12, 2018
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President Xi Jinping praises Hong Kong as ”unique and irreplaceable,” urges city to integrate with China
Hong Kong Free Press, November 12, 2018
過千學者組成 「國際第三部門研究學會」去信林鄭促撤陳健民檢控 (One thousand scholars ask Carrie Lam to drop charges against Occupy movement initiator)
The Stand News, November 12, 2018
【專訪】中國流亡作家馬建：文學也許軟弱無力 但總比沉默好 (Interview with exiled writer Ma Jian: literature might be weak, but it’s better than silence)
The Stand News, November 12, 2018
China’s pop idols are too soft for the Party
Foreign Policy, November 12, 2018
“Purify” or perish: the vulnerable lives of China’s Uyghur scholars
Hong Kong Free Press, November 10, 2018
“We are all Chinese”: Beijing’s message on Xinjiang shifts to ethnicity
South China Morning Post, November 10, 2018
中国驻德大使馆就新疆人权问题向德国议员施压 (Chinese embassy pressures German federal parliament on discussions of Xinjiang human rights issues
Radio France Internationale, November 10, 2018
孟宏伟辞职信真假再受聚焦 (Authenticity of Meng Hongwei’s resignation letter under scrutiny as Interpol “no choice but to accept” resignation)
Radio France Internationale, November 11, 2018
Locals fear Chinese officials more concerned with cover-up rather than clean-up after chemical spill
South China Morning Post, November 10, 2018
Chinese education officials sorry for announcing Mao-style political background check on students
South China Morning Post, November 9, 2018
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Political vetting before college entrance exam? Officials downplay controversial announcement
SupChina, November 9, 2018
自媒体冬寒骤降央视飙控6大罪状 (Independent media in China faces bitter winter under “six sins”)
Radio France Internationale, November 11, 2018
A very Chinese World Internet Conference
China Media Project, November 9, 2018
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Minitrue: No comment on open web access at World Internet Conference
China Digital Times, November 9, 2018
微信虚假新闻误导美国华裔 (Chinse community in U.S. falls victim to WeChat fake news)
Radio Free Asia, November 9, 2018
Celebrity Big Brother gets real as China orders less screen time for overhyped stars
South China Morning Post, November 10, 2018
湖南塵肺工人舉村深圳維權：我們不是拿命來拼，而是無命可拼 (A village of Hunan silicosis workers: we’re not fighting with our lives, we have no lives left to fight)
The Initium, November 10, 2018
中国多名倡导工人权利的年轻活动人士失踪
Young activists go missing in China, raising fears of crackdown
The New York Times, November 12, 2018
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Police “kidnap” 10 labour activists across China: Rights group
Agence France-Presse, November 11, 2018聲援佳士北大學生 疑遭黑衣人擄走 聲援團稱十多人被「綁架」(Jiashi student supporters attacked and kidnapped on campus in Beijing University, others taken from their homes)
The Stand News, November 11, 2018
流亡藏人哀悼及声援最新自焚者 (Exiled Tibetans mourn latest self-immolation)
Radio Free Asia, November 9, 2018
Coastal villagers count the cost of southeast China toxic chemical spill
South China Morning Post, November 11, 2018
The road ahead for China’s trade unions
China Labour Bulletin, November 8, 2018
Risking Beijing’s wrath, Taiwan to vote on removing “China” from name of its 2020 Olympic team
South China Morning Post, November 11, 2018
Beijing's secret plot to infiltrate UN used Australian insider
The Sydney Morning Herald, November 11, 2018
In China, desperate patients smuggle drugs. Or make their own.
The New York Times, November 11, 2018
China confounds all that western liberals believed about the net
The Guardian, November 11, 2018
Explaining the proliferation of China’s drones
The Diplomat, November 10, 2018
China’s “red line” for Hong Kong’s creative freedom
Quartz, November 11, 2018
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马凯 马建 巴丢草 香港言论自由“受制”的三件事 (Mallet, Ma Jian, Badiucao: three incidents of restrictions on Hong Kong’s freedom of speech)
BBC News, November 9, 2018
“Shocked and baffled”: Hong Kong’s ban on journalist a “threat to free society,” says press club as UK demands answers
Hong Kong Free Press, November 9, 2018
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Ban on Financial Times journalist Victor Mallet entering Hong Kong risks undermining business confidence, British minister warns
South China Morning Post, November 9, 2018The death knell for freedom of speech in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Free Press, November 9, 2018
Dissident author Ma Jian urges “courage” to defend free speech as Hong Kong leader denies involvement
Agence France-Presse, November 10, 2018
“It depends on allies”: Non-binary transgender activist Vincy Chan on pushing Hong Kong’s LGBT+ narrative forward
Hong Kong Free Press, November 11, 2018
Don’t silence sign language: call for dying medium to be revived and used as teaching tool for deaf in Hong Kong
South China Morning Post, November 10, 2018
Two arrested as Tung Chung protesters clash over influx of visitors from mainland China to Hong Kong
South China Morning Post, November 11, 2018
Rampant racism in Hong Kong is why the government’s defence of its human rights record falls flat
South China Morning Post, November 11, 2018
Why won’t Muslim countries defend China’s Muslims?
Human Rights Watch, November 8, 2018
Signs of China (5): Tightening the Screws on China’s Foreign Reserves
China Change, November 8, 2018
Why is transparency so important for China’s development assistance?
The Diplomat, November 10, 2018
Hundreds of children of detained Uyghurs held in “closed school” in Kashgar prefecture
Radio Free Asia, November 8, 2018
Xinjiang: Life during a people's war on terror
The Diplomat, November 9, 2018
Interpol says no option but to accept China's removal of its chief
The Guardian, November 8, 2018
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國際刑警：無權調查孟宏偉下落 只能鼓勵中國交代 (Interpol: no power to investigate Meng’s case, can only urge explanation from China)
The Stand News, November 9, 2018
Media, guests shut out of US-China cyber relations panel sessions at World Internet Conference in Wuzhen
South China Morning Post, November 9, 2018
Hong Kong art space Tai Kwun says it cannot become a political platform, after cancelling Ma Jian’s book events
Hong Kong Free Press, November 9, 2018
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馬建指無香港出版社願出《中國夢》 貝嶺：中文版明年台灣出版 (After refusal from all Hong Kong publishers, Ma Jian’s “China Dream” to be published in Taiwan next year)
The Stand News, November 9, 2018
Another Tibetan burns himself to death to protest Chinese rule
Voice of America, November 8, 2018
新修改的《中华全国妇女联合会章程》全文公布 (Xi Jinping Thought incorporated into amended constitution of All-China Women's Federation)
People’s Daily, November 9, 2018
Wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer stages protest, meets diplomats
Radio Free Asia, November 8, 2018
Police in China's Shenzhen Beat, Pepper Spray Protesting Silicosis Sufferers
Radio Free Asia, November 8, 2018
國際特赦組織發起全球一人一信行動 促港府撤回佔中九子控罪 (Amnesty International starts global petition to withdraw prosecution on 9 Umbrella Movement leaders
The Stand News, November 8, 2018
福建泉州：化学品泄漏导致生态灾难 (Chemical leak in Fujian covered up by authorities, disastrous damage to ecology and fishermen hospitalized)
Radio Free Asia, November 8, 2018
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Chinese fishing village fears contamination cover-up after chemical leak
South China Morning Post, November 8, 2018
北京“砌砖”运动：保护历史还是夺去人们的生活？
Historic preservation or just ripping out a way of life in Beijing?
The New York Times, November 8, 2018