Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, June 10, 2015.
William Ide
Last updated on: June 10, 2015 10:29 AM
BEIJING—Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, making her first visit to China this week, is expected to meet with Communist Party leaders including President Xi Jinping. Continue reading
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By JUNE 8, 2015 8:37 AM June 8, 2015 8:37 am
The installation of an ancestral hall from Jiangxi Province in adjoining galleries forms part of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition.Credit Oak Taylor-Smith
Barred since 2011 from traveling outside his home country, the artist Ai Weiwei has become a master of what might be called “remote exhibition-making” — Continue reading
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By VANESSA PIAO JUNE 5, 2015 7:47 AM June 5, 2015 7:47 am
Portraits of the five feminists who were detained in March displayed at a protest on their behalf in Hong Kong: Li Tingting and Wei Tingting (top, left to right), and Wang Man, Wu Rongrong and Zheng Churan (bottom, left to right). Ms. Wu said she has shut down her women’s rights organization.Credit Tyrone Siu/Reuters
A women’s rights organization linked to two of the Continue reading
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FILE – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is seen in a Nov. 13, 2014, image in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.
June 09, 2015 8:24 AM
BEIJING—Chinese leaders will woo Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on her first visit to the country, a snub for the quasi-military Continue reading
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By ALAN WONG and MICHAEL FORSYTHE JUNE 4, 2015
Tens of thousands gathered at the candlelight vigil at Victoria Park, Hong Kong, on Thursday to mark the 26th anniversary of the military crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Credit Tyrone Siu/Reuters
HONG KONG — For the first time in years, Hui King-to chose not to take part in the candlelight vigil in Victoria Park here commemorating those who died during Continue reading
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FILE – Portraits of victims of the June 4, 1989 bloodshed are displayed at the June 4 Memorial Museum run by pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.
William Gallo
Last updated on: June 04, 2015 8:47 AM
WASHINGTON—A group of Chinese college students studying overseas is distributing an open letter calling for Communist Party leaders to be held accountable for the atrocities committed 26 years ago Thursday, when Chinese forces violently dispersed pro-democracy Continue reading
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To mark Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, thousands of people attend an annual candlelight vigil at the Victoria Park in Hong Kong, June 4, 2015.
Last updated on: June 04, 2015 11:04 AM
HONG KONG—In Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, people each year gather for an annual candlelight vigil to remember the victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters Continue reading
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June 4, 2015
His Excellency Xi Jinping
President of the People’s Republic of China
Dear President Xi:
We write as co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China on the 26th- year anniversary of the nationwide protests that started in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The protests, their violent suppression, and the ongoing prohibition of public or online discussion of the events of 1989, Continue reading
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