A prominent Chinese women’s rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, has been sentenced to one-and-a-half years in a labour camp, amid protests.

Some 90,000 Hong Kong people took to the streets recently to urge the government to withdraw a controversial new Chinese education curriculum.

A young man appointed by China's government as the second-highest Tibetan spiritual leader has made his first public appearance outside China.

A Chinese activist detained for organizing a demonstration in support of bloggers must be released, Amnesty International said as her trial began in Beijing.