Category: Special Topics

NIH Approves Millions in New Grants to Organization That Funded Wuhan Lab

October 3, 2022
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Millions of federal dollars have continued flowing into EcoHealth Alliance, the New York-based nonprofit under heavy scrutiny for its role in funneling public money to a key laboratory in China for bat coronavirus research that many believe may have caused the pandemic. On Sept. 21, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued three grants to…

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Five Suicides in Tibet Due to ‘Extreme Hardship‘ in Lockdown: Report

October 3, 2022
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The “extreme hardships” in Tibet, where the Chinese regime has imposed harsh lockdowns, are behind five recent suicides, according to a human rights advocacy group. The lockdown in the west border region—which has dragged on for over 50 days—caused “a spate of suicides” in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, according to the Washington-based International Campaign…

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Activist Launches Twitter Campaign Calling for Attention to China’s Political Prisoners

October 2, 2022
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A former Chinese human rights lawyer now based in the United States has launched a Twitter campaign to bring international attention to the situation of China’s political prisoners, following the brutal prison assault and death of the father of “ink girl,” known for inking over public posters of Xi Jinping. Lawyer Wang Qingpeng told The Epoch Times…

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Falun Gong Adherents Brave Rain in Brooklyn to Denounce Chinese Communist Party’s Abuses

October 2, 2022
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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.—Heavy rain and cold winds did not deter hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from parading down Brooklyn’s Chinatown on Oct. 2 to call for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s 23-year-long persecution of the spiritual group. Participants, drenched by the rain despite many of them wearing yellow plastic rain jackets, held…

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UK Groups Jointly Urge Liz Truss to Hark Human Rights Concerns, Sanction CCP Officials and Publicly Stand Against CCP

October 2, 2022
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On the eve of the 73rd anniversary National Day in Communist China, a total of nine British human rights organizations, including Hongkongers in Britain, Global Alliance for Tibet and Persecuted Minorities, and Stop Uyghur Genocide, wrote to the new British Prime Minister Liz Truss. The organizations urged the British government to pay heed to the threats…

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People Locked Down in Xinjiang Unable to Visit Hometowns for China’s National Day Holiday

October 2, 2022
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Many people in China’s Xinjiang region can’t leave to visit their hometowns during the week-long “October First” holiday– the regime’s “National day” under its restrictive zero-COVID-19 control measures. Meanwhile, protests broke out against the indefinite lockdowns. Most of Xinjiang, which is in China’s northwest and home to an ethnic Uyghur majority, has now been under COVID-19…

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Taiwanese Businessman’s Death in China Allegedly Due to Delay in Medical Treatment

October 1, 2022
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China’s draconian zero-COVID policies have resulted in delayed medical treatment, and caused many deaths across the country since the COVID-19 outbreak. A Taiwanese businessman working in China was reported to have died on Sept. 18 in Xiamen, a city in China’s eastern coastal province of Fujian, after he was isolated in a quarantine facility near…

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Box Office Hit ‘Return to Dust’ Disappears From Chinese Theatres and Streaming Services

October 1, 2022
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A popular Chinese love-story movie was removed from all Chinese theatres and streaming services only weeks after its release. The arthouse movie “Return to Dust,” with a budget of 2 million yuan (about $280,000), tells the story of a couple in an arranged marriage who live in a rural area of China’s northwestern Gansu Province….

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US, Philippine Defense Chiefs Discuss Military Alliance Amid China–Taiwan Tension

October 1, 2022
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Top defense officials of the United States and the Philippines have pledged to bolster military cooperation to tackle regional challenges amid the growing tensions between China and Taiwan. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with his Philippine counterpart Jose Faustino in Hawaii on Friday to discuss reinforcing the U.S.-Philippines mutual defense treaty and improving maritime…

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Man Abducted, Killed, and Buried in a Hong Kong Rural Village Over 3 Million HKD Debt

October 1, 2022
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The Hong Kong government has been claiming how safe Hong Kong is since the implementation of the National Security Law, but citizens feel differently. Netizens questioned if the National Security Law had made Hong Kong safer and less chaotic. The public is growing concerned for their safety as there has been an increasing number of…

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