Another deadly attack heightens concerns for Chinese nationals working on projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
Winnipeg lab document
The declassified intelligence document compiled by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and what it revealed about Canada’s so-called most secure microbiology lab.
Hong Kong’s freedoms: what China promised and how it’s cracking down
“Beijing’s ideal scenario is to keep Hong Kong as a financial center without all the freedom.” But freedom, it seems, has been a key driver of Hong Kong’s success.
White paper movement on film
A documentary maker manages the extraordinary during China’s pandemic: a film about the protests that brought lockdowns to an end.
A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media followers
Followers of an X account that circulates news censored in China find themselves in hot tea for ‘thought crime’.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu tasked in PRC “biological intelligence collection mission”
Former U.S. State Department lead investigator says Dr. Qiu’s WIV collaborators systematically performed bat virus biosynthesis and were “illicitly acquiring Ebola … to make it super contagious”.
Hong Kong authorities rush through most repressive national security legislation in city’s history
Severe national security law expands scope abroad.
China revives socialist ideas to fix its real-estate crisis
Today’s housing crisis is much more severe than the last downturn, economists say, leaving the government with an even bigger challenge to clear up the mess.
A year on: remembering Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the truth-teller who saved lives
A celebration of Dr. Jiang Yanyong (蒋彦永), China’s “honest doctor,” who first became known to the world for exposing a government cover-up during the SARS crisis of 2003.
How one woman duped China’s censorship machine
Using the persona of an Iranian protester to circulate content, a writer manages to hoodwink China’s internet censors for weeks. Netizens notice how familiar the depiction of state control sounds.
Forced labour from North Korea is tainting the world’s seafood supply
China officially denies these workers are in the country, but their presence is an open secret. An investigation reveals 15 seafood processing plants have used over 1,000 North Korean workers since 2017.
Wang Xiaoshuai’s “Above the Dust”: Another movie destined not to be released in China
China’s acclaimed master of independent cinema risks punishment to screen his latest release at Germany’s Berlinale without approval from Chinese authorities.
Liberal, NDP MPs block proposed examination of national-security breaches at Winnipeg infectious-disease facility
“After three long years, we finally have gotten access to the documents, and we need to continue this examination in order to hold the government accountable.”
Fired Winnipeg scientist involved in gain-of-function research at Wuhan lab, where Canada sent virus samples
The release of records into the firing of two scientists at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory reveal a five-alarm security fire at what is supposed to be Canada’s most secure microbiology lab.
Nearly one-fifth of the Mekong’s fish are at risk of extinction and the main culprits are hydroelectric dams
A new study finds the construction of hydroelectric dams on the main trunk and tributaries of the Mekong River are threatening the livelihoods and food security of millions and the survival of […]


