The U.S. government has warned those traveling to China and Hong Kong that they may be subject to arbitrary enforcement of local laws. Those detained overseas may be unable to reach U.S. consular services and […]
Tong Ying-Kit, a 23-year-old Hong Kong protestor has been charged under the new Chinese security law and denied bail by a Chinese-controlled Hong Kong court due to a new national security law introduced by the […]
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A prominent Beijing official recently stated that a planned security law meant to reign in the protests and unrest in Hong Kong will be like “installing an anti-virus software”. Specifics of the law, which was […]
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The southern Chinese city Shenzhen recently announced a draft regulation to ban the eating of wild animals as well as animals typically regarded as pets. The proposed regulation comes in the wake of the deadly […]
The Thai government is currently considering extending Songkran to 9 days in 2020 to make up for a shortfall in tourism due to the Coronavirus outbreak. If approved, Songkran–Thailand’s wild and wet new year festival–would […]
As reports of coronavirus cases spread outside China, fear among Thai people that they too might catch the deadly virus has risen dramatically–as has anti-Chinese discrimination. There is currently no law on the books in […]
Robert Schellenberg, a 36-year-old Canadian citizen, was found guilty of smuggling 200 kg of methamphetamine into China recently and sentenced to death. Schellenberg was originally convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined […]
A Chinese court ruled this week that citizens in Asia’s economic number one economic power have the right to own and trade cryptocurrencies. In the verdict, The Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) proclaimed that […]
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As one is released, another is arrested Chinese officials have announced that prominent human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong who disappeared in November of last year is under formal arrest and has dismissed all legal counsel. […]
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China’s international payment system for Yuan went online last week, and has so far failed to meet early market expectations, reports South China Morning Post. The “soft-launch” version of what has previously been dubbed the […]
