After US House Speaker Pelosi’s visit, fake news flooded Taiwan's social media
GlobalVoices, August 18, 2022
Mao-loving websites are in a grey zone between propaganda and dissent
The Economist, August 18, 2022
Beijing’s Diplomacy Suffers in Europe
Foreign Policy, August 17, 2022
狀告中國新疆罪刑 維族代表律師親赴阿根廷申訴 (Lawyers representing two Uyghur organizations file criminal complaint in Argentinian court)
Deutsche Welle, August 18, 2022
The creative ways Chinese activists protest pollution
The Economist, August 18, 2022
National security law: 29 of 47 Hong Kong opposition figures set to plead guilty to subversion charges over unofficial primary election
South China Morning Post, August 18, 2022
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Hong Kong court lifts reporting ban on national security case for 47 pro-democracy campaigners
Reuters, August 18, 2022【初選47人案】記一次長四天的答辯 有人說笑、有人致歉 ([HK47] Remembering a four-day long defense hearing: some joked, some apologised)
inmediahk.net, August 18, 2022
社民連晚宴突遭酒樓取消 陳寶瑩：香港容不下政團聯歡 (League of Social Democrats banquet cancelled by restaurant; Chairman Chan Po-Ying: Hong Kong cannot tolerate any political group gatherings)
inmediahk.net, August 18, 2022
City in China orders fish swabbed for Covid
The Guardian, August 18, 2022
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中国坚持清零 鱼虾也须核酸检测(China adheres to "zero" policy to Covid-19, fish and shrimps are also tested)
Radio France Internationale, August 18, 2022
China to Join Russia Military Exercises as U.S. Rivals Deepen Ties
中国将派兵参加俄罗斯领导的军演
The Wall Street Journal, August 17-18, 2022
一带一路成东南亚有组织犯罪温床 大陆金主 台湾猪仔 (China’s One Belt One Road has become hotbed of organized crime in Southeast Asia)
Radio France Internationale, August 17, 2022
China’s ambassador is pushing Beijing’s alternative facts
The Washington Post, August 17, 2022
‘I just love informing’: China’s after-school tutoring ‘snitch’ claims he is not safe after public backlash from parents and teachers
South China Morning Post, August 17, 2022
Hong Kong gov’t vows ‘more resolute’ action against civil servant misconduct
Hong Kong Free Press, August 17, 2022
人权组织报告称，中国政府将异见人士关押于精神病院，受害者遭到身心虐待（Human rights organization report: Chinese government detains dissidents in mental hospitals; victims suffer physical and psychological abuse）
NGOCN, August 17, 2022
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精神折磨：中国将异见人士关押在精神病院
DRUGGED AND DETAINED: CHINA’S PSYCHIATRIC PRISONS
Safeguard Defenders, August 16, 2022
UN独立人权专家认定新疆强迫劳动指称可信，或构成现代奴役（UN independent human rights expert establishes that Xinjiang forced labor claims are credible and may constitute modern slavery）
Voice of America, August 17, 2022
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, August 16, 2022
National security law: group of 47 opposition activists to face Hong Kong subversion trial without a jury
South China Morning Post, August 16, 2022
National security trial for Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai to proceed without jury – reports
Hong Kong Free Press, August 17, 2022
Initial inquiry in national security case against Hong Kong activist Chow Hang-tung to be heard in open court
Hong Kong Free Press, August 17, 2022
• 兩暴動案脫罪 律政司就13人提上訴 9人已離港 (Two riot cases acquitted; the DoJ appeals against 13 people, 9 of whom have already left Hong Kong)
inmediahk.net, August 17, 2022
What’s going on in Hong Kong’s courts?
Chinese Human Rights Defenders, August 13, 2022
China set to discourage abortion amid concern over birthrates
The Washington Post, August 16, 2022
China slaps sanctions on 7 'diehard separatist' Taiwan officials
Radio Free Asia, August 16, 2022
Chinese Woman Taken Away by Suzhou Police for Wearing Japanese Kimono
What's on Weibo, August 15, 2022
Hong Kong’s Crackdown on Dissent Hits Facebook Pages
The Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2022
Hong Kong police to deploy technology to combat misinformation, new PR chief says
South China Morning Post, August 16, 2022
【案件更新】黄雪琴代表律师被迫更换，王建兵案件被退回二次侦查（[Case update] Huang Xueqin's lawyer replaced and Wang Jianbing's case re-investigated）
Free Xueqin and Jianbing, August 12, 2022
Former Hong Kong girls’ schoolteacher turned activist jailed for 9 months for unlawful assembly during June 2019 social unrest
South China Morning Post, August 15, 2022
Hong Kong pro-democracy retail chain Chickeeduck to close all shops
Hong Kong Free Press, August 16, 2022
17部门联合发文 进一步完善和落实积极生育支持措施（Guideline on reproductive and birth control measures jointly issued by 17 government departments）
Xinhuanet, August 16, 2022
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关于进一步完善和落实积极生育支持措施的指导意见（Guiding Opinion on Further Improving and Implementing Active Reproductive Support Measures）
National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, August 16, 2022
How Frustration Over TikTok Has Mounted in Washington
华盛顿的TikTok难题：拜登政府将如何权衡？
The New York Times, August 15, 2022
Beijing’s military drills around Taiwan accompanied by wave of misinformation
Hong Kong Free Press, August 15, 2022
教育局向全港學校 派習近平七一重要講話單行本 稱有重大意義 (Education bureau to send copies of Xi Jinping's July 1 speech to all Hong Kong schools, claiming it is of huge importance)
inmediahk.net, August 15, 2022
No more ‘secrets’ in Hong Kong? Facebook pages for anonymous rants, comments shut following national security law arrests
South China Morning Post, August 14, 2022
Police in China's Chengdu raid Sunday meeting of banned church members, detain one
Radio Free Asia, August 15, 2022
江西萍乡维权人士朱玉芳被当局以“寻衅滋事罪”判刑4年 (Jiangxi rights activist Zhu Yufang sentenced to 4 years in prison for ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’)
Weiquanwang, August 14, 2022
因在网上发布唐山打人事件信息遭刑事拘留的河北衡水自媒体人毛惠斌家人今收到刑拘通知书 (Media personnel Mao Huibin criminally detained after online discussion about Tangshan beating incident)
Weiquanwang, August 15, 2022
北京遭强拆受害者、维权人士叶国柱、叶国强兄弟被刑事拘留 (Brothers and victims of forced demolition in Beijing Ye Guozhu and Ye Guoqiang criminally detained again)
Weiquanwang, August 14, 2022
Ex-leader of Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil group makes second bail application in national security case
Hong Kong Free Press, August 15, 2022
2 Hong Kong students plead not guilty to rioting over Uyghur solidarity assembly in 2019
Hong Kong Free Press, August 15, 2022
China’s internet watchdog receives app algorithm information from Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance
South China Morning Post, August 13, 2022
鄧炳強談「公務員secrets」：批評政府無問題 有人藉平台煽動 (Hong Kong Secretary of Security, Chris Tang: criticizing the government is fine, but provoking hatred among people is not)
Mingpao News, August 15, 2022
Five U.S. Lawmakers Arrive in Taiwan Amid Tensions With China
佩洛西之后，五名美国国会议员再访台湾
The New York Times, August 15, 2022
What Does China Want?
Foreign Policy, August 13, 2022
Chow Hang-tung’s landmark legal victory will let the press do its job properly
Hong Kong Free Press, August 14, 2022
TikTok facing fresh scrutiny over Beijing influence after Forbes report on how 300 ByteDance employees used to work for state media
South China Morning Post, August 12, 2022
Billboards celebrating Hong Kong’s ‘new era’ to stay up in Australia despite complaints
The Guardian, August 12, 2022
Hongkongers warn of Chinese Communist Party infiltration of British universities
Radio Free Asia, August 11, 2022
追问唐山打人事件后续 自媒体人毛慧斌疑被刑拘 (Media personnel Mao Huibin suspected of being criminally detained after enquiring about Tangshan beating incident)
Radio Free Asia, August 12, 2022
2 Hong Kong teens jailed for 5.5 years each for rioting after being cleared of manslaughter over 2019 protest death
Hong Kong Free Press, August 12, 2022
20歲女學生認理大內暴動 惟未滿21歲不能判監 官促律政司修例以直接判監 (20 year-old girl admits to rioting in Poly-U but cannot be imprisoned as she is under 21; officials urge the DOJ to amend ordinance to allow imprisonment)
inmediahk.net, August 12, 2022
9.29旺角警民衝突 工程師認藏武囚140日 官：用鐳射筆照射警方風險高 ([9.29 Mong-Kok Clash] Engineer admits to possession of weapons and is imprisoned for 140 days; judge finds that pointing a laser pen at a police officer poses a “high risk”)
inmediahk.net, August 12, 2022
Hong Kongers in Exile Fight for Their Truth – and Ukrainians
The Diplomat, August 12, 2022
雖「離散」但不「斷聯」 海外港人用信繼續與牆內傳「情 (Separated but not broken, overseas Hong Kongers launch “Drift and Post” program using letters to reach out to prisoners behind walls)>
Radio Free Asia, August 12, 2022
Shanghai health code system containing personal data of 48.5 million people allegedly hacked and touted for sale
South China Morning Post, August 12, 2022
有关维吾尔人的联合国人权报告预期本月公布 (UN human rights report on Uyghurs is expected to be published this month)
Voice of America, August 12, 2022
佩洛西警告中國不能孤立台灣 北京稱美挑釁在前(Pelosi warns China not to isolate Taiwan, Beijing says U.S. provocation came first)
Deutsche Welle, August 11, 2022
Chinese medical portal censored after doubting herbal 'COVID-19 remedy'
Agence France-Presse, August 11, 2022
CHINA PUSHES ANTI-PELOSI NARRATIVE ON TAIWAN ACROSS GLOBAL MEDIA
China Digital Times, August 10, 2022