By Li Zhen & Liang Lusi, April 2, 2013 The Epoch Times [Photo caption: Underground members of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong periodically visit the People’s Republic of China Liasion Office to join Party meetings and submit their Party dues. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)] When Li Sheng wanted to get a promotion at his company—a Chinese state-owned enterprise operating in...
read moreBy Jamil Anderlini | Financial Times, Published: March 7 [Reprinted by the Washington Post] BEIJING — The legislature of the world’s last major communist country is almost certainly the wealthiest in the world, according to a popular rich list that names 83 dollar billionaires among the delegates to China’s parliament this year. Meanwhile, in the United States, there is not a single...
read moreBesieged Falun Gong practitioners defended by civil groups and individuals By Sherry Lin and Cheryl Ng, March 4, 2013 Epoch Times Staff [Photo caption: Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate one of the discipline's exercises at an information site at Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, while Hong Kong police protect them from the green-shirted members of the Hong Kong Youth Care Association, on March 3...
read moreThe Epoch Times By Zhang Haishan Epoch Times Staff Hundreds of officials from the powerful Communist Party organ that controls almost all aspects of domestic security have been secretly arrested in Party leader Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption sweep, New Epoch Weekly has learned from a highly placed official in Beijing. The ultimate goals of this purge are the arrest of former security czar Zhou...
read moreBy Michelle Yu The Epoch Times China’s Yunnan Province will no longer hand out sentences to forced labor camps, according to a state media report. The announcement is the latest specific policy curtailing the use of the controversial and often abused institutions, after the new leadership said it would halt or reform the work camp system. Meng Sutie, head of Yunnan’s Political and...
read moreForum 18 By Magda Hornemann, Forum 18 News Service Why does the Chinese state adopt measures that result in freedom of religion and belief violations? A fundamental explanation might be found among the Chinese leadership’s concept of the country’s “core interests”, such as territorial integrity and social stability. Religious freedom might significantly improve if the...
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