'Hong Kong is not China': open defiance from new political rebels
Legislators were ordered to return to their seats after displaying banners reading "Hong Kong is not China".
Philip Wen is the China correspondent for Fairfax Media.
Legislators were ordered to return to their seats after displaying banners reading "Hong Kong is not China".
Piao Zhihua arrived in Beijing planning on working hard and one day buying an apartment. But eight years on, she is further away from home ownership than when she began.
The ancient Buddhas of the Yungang Grottoes, carved from stone and smiling serenely in the direction of Datong's coalmines, have been witnessing more change now than its previous 1600 years.
It seemed an unbeatable investment: a biomedical company in a rustbelt province in China where the government was backing high-tech enterprises enthusiastically.
Chinese police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at villagers and arrested 13 people in an early morning raid aimed at quelling unrest.
In Australia, China's short-term game is to buy the government's silence on the South China Sea, making it clear there would be ramifications if it were to follow the US lead and send warships on freedom of navigation missions in the disputed waters.
North Korea says it is now capable of mounting nuclear warheads after it conducted its most powerful atomic test to date.
New online Chinese language media outlets have the potential to "polarise the Australian Chinese community against mainstream Australian society", a report has found.
It is a masterful lesson in how to put your circles of influence to work.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has condemned North Korea for its fresh round of "dangerous, destabilising and provocative" ballistic missile tests.
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