Chen Zifei

Jan 14, 2025 | rfa.org | Chen Zifei

Police in Hong Kong on Tuesday took away and questioned the wife and son of U.K.-based pollster and outspoken political commentator Chung Kim-wah, who has a bounty on his head amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent under two security laws. Police took away Chung’s wife and son from their home on Tuesday morning “to assist in a national security police investigation,” according to multiple local media reports.

Jan 13, 2025 | rfa.org | Chen Zifei

Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, who has been behind bars without trial for three years on “subversion” charges, has issued a defiant statement to the authorities after they repeatedly extended his detention, saying he ‘won’t bow’ to them. Xie marked three years this week in the Changsha No. 1 Detention Center after his pretrial detention period was extended for the 10th time, his U.S.-based wife Chen Guiqiu told RFA Mandarin in a recent interview.

Dec 12, 2024 | rfa.org | Chen Zifei

China’s internet censors are going after “chaotic” online financial information that claims to be “expert guidance,” the country’s powerful State Internet Information Office has said. The moves come after censors took down a speech that went viral from economist Dong Shanwen, who warned that youth unemployment was tanking the economy, and that official growth figures had hugely underestimated the problem. “The ...

Nov 4, 2024 | rfa.org | Chen Zifei

Read this story in Chinese The number of couples getting married in China fell rapidly in the first nine months of 2024 by nearly 1 million registrations compared to last year, official statistics show, amid an economic slump and changing attitudes toward marriage. China registered 4.747 million marriages in the three quarters ending Sept. 30, a drop of 943,000 year-on-year. First marriages have plummeted by nearly 56% over the past nine years, according to the 2023 China Statistical Yearbook.

Oct 31, 2024 | rfa.org | Chen Zifei

Read this story in Chinese Hong Kong’s government is pushing ahead with a coordinated political influence campaign across the United States, a report by a Washington-based Hong Kong Democracy Council advocacy group said.