China exonerates coronavirus whistleblower doctor who diedIn rare move, Communist Party’s disciplinary body says Wuhan police wrong to punish Li WenliangFri Mar 20 2020 - 12:37
Coronavirus: US-China tensions ramped up as American journalists expelledBeijing accused of spreading false story of US military involvement in Covid-19 outbreakWed Mar 18 2020 - 16:20
Wheel comes full circle as China focuses on outside threatBeijing Letter: Dwindling daily numbers of fresh infections now barely registering on global graphTue Mar 17 2020 - 16:53
Coronavirus: China reveals just eight new cases amid row with USChina now has almost 81,000 confirmed cases but 64,000 patients have recoveredFri Mar 13 2020 - 16:14
Coronavirus: Communist Party mask has slipped as Chinese endure lockdownChengdu Letter: Despite handling of the crisis, Xi Jinping’s government still has supportSat Feb 29 2020 - 02:00
Chinese court sentences Hong Kong bookseller to 10 years in jailSweden demands release of Gui Minhai, sentenced on charges of leaking intelligenceTue Feb 25 2020 - 14:55
Coronavirus lockdown: ‘Every day is like a week’Members of the Irish community in Wuhan react to news that they will not be allowed to leave compounds until March 10thSun Feb 23 2020 - 16:56
The Irish living in Wuhan lockdown: A man in a hazmat suit delivers dinnerIrishman has spent three weeks alone in his apartment which he is not allowed to leaveThu Feb 13 2020 - 15:12
Fears Xi Jinping will use coronavirus crisis to tighten his grip on ChinaDeath of whistleblowing doctor Li Wenliang sparked uproar on Chinese social media platformsTue Feb 11 2020 - 17:23
Coronavirus death toll in China passes 900 as containment measures intensifyUK confirms fourth case of coronavirusMon Feb 10 2020 - 00:35
Joshua Wong’s call to arms to the Instagram generationHong Kong’s most famous political activist on his fight against totalitarianismSat Feb 08 2020 - 06:00
Coronavirus: China begins inquiry after public outcry over doctor’s deathDr Li Wenliang, who tried to warn public of outbreak but was suppressed, dies from virusFri Feb 07 2020 - 17:40
How China’s efforts to shape coronavirus story fuelled crisisPublic anger at delay in admitting to scale of outbreak leaves Communist Party reelingFri Feb 07 2020 - 15:10
Living with coronavirus: ‘One couple said their sex life had never been better’Chengdu Letter: Self-quarantine measures have some benefits as city hunkers downThu Feb 06 2020 - 11:12
Coronavirus declared public health emergency by WHODeath toll rises to 170 as US reports first case of human-to-human transmissionThu Jan 30 2020 - 20:29
Coronavirus: Three Irish people to be evacuated from WuhanIrish citizens to travel to UK as Russia closes border with China in bid to contain virusThu Jan 30 2020 - 19:21
Coronavirus: Airlines cut services to China as WHO holds emergency meeting‘Whole world needs to be on alert now,’ says WHO as death toll rises to 132 and 6,000 infectedWed Jan 29 2020 - 23:14
Hong Kong suspends Chinese tourist visas as coronavirus spreadsHigh-speed rail and cross-border ferry services to be stopped, with flights reducedTue Jan 28 2020 - 21:45
Coronavirus: Plans to evacuate Irish citizens from ChinaDepartment considering choices for assisting Irish to leave Hubei province ‘if required’Tue Jan 28 2020 - 02:10
Coronavirus: Irish in Wuhan say they won’t leave Chinese partners behindEmbassy exploring options to evacuate six Irish nationals under lockdown in cityMon Jan 27 2020 - 21:16
Coronavirus outbreak: Irish community endures Hubei lockdownIrish embassy in Beijing monitoring situation but has no plans for an evacuationMon Jan 27 2020 - 08:37
Coronavirus: death toll rises to 82 with nearly 3,000 confirmed casesChinese government steps up efforts to restrict travel and public gatheringsMon Jan 27 2020 - 07:35
China coronavirus death toll reaches 26 as cities locked downAuthorities rush to build makeshift hospital as number of suspected cases nears 8,500Fri Jan 24 2020 - 19:45
Inspired by Ireland, Taiwan’s LGBT activists feel empowered for future battlesLast year Taiwan became the first Asian country to recognise same-sex marriageWed Jan 22 2020 - 20:00
First US case of coronavirus confirmed as Chinese officials race to stem spreadSixth death in China where wider outbreak feared as hundreds of millions begin travelling for lunar new yearTue Jan 21 2020 - 19:17
Independence party in Taiwan wins by landslide in rejecting Chinese unificationBeijing says reunification ‘cannot be stopped’ and accuses Tsai Ing-wen of ‘dirty tactics’Sun Jan 12 2020 - 17:13
Taiwan’s pro-independence president on track for re-electionChina’s hint at military intervention has helped revive Tsai Ing-wen’s prospectsFri Jan 10 2020 - 13:57
Taiwan military chief among eight killed in helicopter crashFive of 13 on board survive as authorities investigate cause of incident near TaipeiThu Jan 02 2020 - 15:12
China’s relentless growth path checked as stability replaces stimulusGovernment trying to fundamentally change the way the Chinese economy growsThu Jan 02 2020 - 13:31
Hong Kong classrooms shaping as next point in front line battle‘Our biggest mistake was education, in particular ideological and political education’Thu Jan 02 2020 - 01:00
The Year of the Pig was Xi Jinping’s annus horribilisYear in Review: The full horrors of China’s ‘re-education’ camps were exposed this yearSat Dec 28 2019 - 06:00
Xinjiang tensions stir unease among Han ChineseMany settlers are eager to leave the region amid ethnic unrest and overbearing surveillanceThu Dec 26 2019 - 15:37
‘Become family’: China sends officials to stay with Xinjiang minoritiesUighur homestays by cadres extends surveillance to within the home, local Muslims sayTue Dec 17 2019 - 18:00
Xinjiang latest: detention camps close but oppression continuesPeter Goff reports from Kashgar, Xinjiang: ‘All the students have graduated ... our work is done here,’ says principal at Uighur ‘re-education camp’Mon Dec 16 2019 - 01:49
Will Francis be the first pope to set foot on Chinese soil?Popes have been trying to get to China since 1177. Francis wants to be the firstSat Dec 14 2019 - 06:00
China hits back at US sanctions threat over Uighur rights abusesBeijing considers visa restrictions on US diplomats over ‘odious’ response to Xinjiang issueWed Dec 04 2019 - 06:31
China angered as Trump signs Bills backing Hong Kong protestersLegislation with broad bipartisan support threatens sanctions for human rights abusesThu Nov 28 2019 - 15:30
Hong Kong elections: landslide victory for pro-democracy partiesPro-democracy candidates win 85% support in local elections, up from 28% four years agoMon Nov 25 2019 - 16:35
Hong Kong’s pre-election calm: ‘This is the beginning, not the end’As the city prepares to vote on Sunday, none of its 31,000 police will be getting a day offSat Nov 23 2019 - 06:00
New police chief wants Hong Kong university siege to end peacefullyDozens of protesters barricaded in campus with ‘many explosives and petrol bombs’Fri Nov 22 2019 - 19:05
Hong Kong protesters threaten to detonate explosives in police raid‘It will be like Angry Birds,’ militant protester says, as university stand-off continuesWed Nov 20 2019 - 20:35
Hong Kong protests: schoolchildren in uniform arrestedArrests follow calls from activists to paralyse the city during the early morning commuteWed Nov 20 2019 - 07:36
Scores of protesters holed up in tense siege at Hong Kong universityHundreds arrested by police after giving themselves up or trying to escapeTue Nov 19 2019 - 07:38
Chaos in Hong Kong as 500 protesters still holed up in universityRiot police surrounding campus under attack themselves amid anger and tearsMon Nov 18 2019 - 07:25
Violence in Hong Kong as students and police clashPolice attempt to storm Polytechnic University with 200 demonstrators insideMon Nov 18 2019 - 00:17
‘The university staff are gone and the foreign students are gone’The frontline in the Hong Kong protests has shifted to the university campus, where hundreds of students are now in siege modeFri Nov 15 2019 - 17:00
Irish Whiskey protected in China, 'strengthening relationships', Phil Hogan saysHogan hails new deal between Brussels and Beijing to protect native food productsWed Nov 06 2019 - 09:29
China’s Central Committee warns of ‘challenges’ aheadFour-day closed-door plenum concluded in Beijing this weekFri Nov 01 2019 - 19:01
Activist banned from running in Hong Kong’s local electionsDisqualification of Joshua Wong (23) is likely to fuel anti-government protests furtherTue Oct 29 2019 - 17:11
China bans importation of black clothing into Hong KongAuthorities move to curb long-running protests by blocking specific items entering cityThu Oct 17 2019 - 18:29
