A Chinese exile living in Japan is calling for the release of his mother, who is locked up in a Chinese detention center on Article 300 charges, a vague law passed in China in October 1999 to justify the regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. Yao Jiaxiu, a 70-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was detained on Sept. […]

Ecuador says that it has temporarily suspended a visa waiver agreement with China, citing a “worrying increase in migratory flows from China.” Ecuador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility stated in a June 19 social media post that there was an “unusual increase” of Chinese nationals entering the country in recent months. The agency […]

A young Chinese man attacked Falun Gong practitioners and vandalized their information posters at a famous South Korean tourist attraction on Dec. 17. In a video clip supplied to The Epoch Times by a Falun Gong practitioner, a Chinese man stomped on all the information stands until the banners fell off, shoved the Falun Gong […]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long track record of exploring big data analytics and cloud computing-based technologies to track, stalk, monitor, and confine the personal freedom of Falun Gong practitioners, according to reports on Minghui.org. The communist regime has fixed electronic global positioning and tracking devices on cars, bicycles, mobile phones, and even […]

China’s top human organ donation watchdog has again been campaigning to have Chinese nationals register in its “voluntary human organ donation” database since July this year. China Organ Donation Administrative Center (CODAC) issued a notice on its website on July 24, launching a series of “nationwide propaganda season” activities to promote organ donation among Chinese […]

Inspiring good deeds and spreading kindness can be fun and rewarding. Gan Jing World, a U.S.-based social media platform, has launched a video contest showcasing kindness in daily life to “spark this greater trend of kindness in today’s world,” the company says on its website. The most recent hashtag competition event, #KindnessIsCool Video Awards, started […]

South Korean presenter of Shen Yun Performing Arts accuses the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) diplomats of interfering relentlessly with Shen Yun’s performance in the country, calling on Seoul to stop CCP interference and to investigate Korean officials involved. New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company. Using the universal language of […]

A total of 415 million Chinese people have quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations as of July 23, 2023, according to the U.S.-based Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP (“Tuidang Center”) on Sunday. “The Tuidang Movement has reached a milestone yet again—415 million brave Chinese have quit the CCP and […]

Two people, who were detained by Shanghai State Security Police in October 2021 for developing software that circumvents the Great Firewall, received six- and five-year prison sentences on June 12, 2023. He Binggang and his fiancée Zhang Yibo, together with several others, were arrested on Oct. 9, 2021, for developing and maintaining software that helps people living […]

New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD) says its International Figure Painting Competition will return to New York in November. The mission of the competition—the sixth of its kind since the inaugural event in 2008—is to promote the pure beauty, kindness, and truth of traditional oil painting. The competition is inviting realist artists worldwide to submit figure paintings that […]

Over 1,000 adherents of the Falun Dafa spiritual practice celebrated World Falun Dafa Day on Sunday in New York City, sharing their joy with onlookers. World Falun Dafa Day falls annually on May 13, which is also the birthday of Mr. Li Hongzhi, founder of the practice. The event is celebrated around the world. This […]

Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan were detained Thursday in Beijing when they were en route to meet a delegation from the European Union. Yu is one of the most courageous rights lawyers in China active in defending the rights of dissidents and ethnic and religious groups. He won the Franco-German […]

While a new wave of COVID-19 is sweeping across China, Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said on Dec. 15 that COVID-19 should be renamed “COVID flu,” as current variant Omicron’s fatality rate “has dropped to a very low [level]” and is equivalent to that of the “seasonal flu,” according to […]

Crematoriums across China are being overwhelmed as the country experiences a flare-up of the pandemic following the relaxing of zero-COVID rules. In Shenyang, in China’s northeastern Liaoning Province, residents say deaths have spiked since the government decided to lift lockdowns and mandatory testing. However, it is difficult to confirm that the deaths are due to COVID-19 […]

China, its capital in particular, has been hit hard by the recent wave of COVID-19 that is sweeping the country. After dozens of professors and teachers from top Chinese universities passed away during the past 30 days, four more prominent Chinese figures have been reported to have died in the three days Sunday to Monday, […]

Protests erupted in Shanghai and campuses across the country during the weekend, with crowds calling the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its top leader to step down, a display of public dissent that the country hasn’t seen in decades. The latest wave of widespread anger, from the capital of Beijing to the southern city of […]

Authorities in Shanghai are ramping up their zero-COVID efforts amid a recent flare-up in cases before the coming national congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in mid-October. The city that is the financial hub of China reported 34 active COVID-19 cases as of Oct. 9, three of which have symptoms and the rest being […]

Police in China’s northeastern Daqing City of Heilongjiang Province abducted almost 100 Falun Gong practitioners on July 12 for their faith, raided their homes, and took away their money and personal belongings, according to a report published on Minghui.org. Minghui.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that reports on the ongoing persecution of the Buddhist-school spiritual belief Falun […]

Footage of Chinese police holding weapons at the airport of Xishuangbanna (Banna) prefecture to stop tourists from boarding their planes has gone viral in China and overseas. Tourists were trapped in the airport after the local authorities of Banna suddenly locked down the city of Jinghong on Oct. 4. They chanted “We want to go […]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began brutally suppressing believers of Falun Gong throughout the country in 1999, a campaign that continues to this day. From July 1 to August 31, at least 1,850 Falun Gong practitioners were harassed, detained, tortured, involuntarily had their blood tested, and were deprived of personal property and retirement pensions, according to […]