The U.S. State Department's annual human rights report indicates that arbitrary detention of human rights lawyers and advocates have increased in China in 2015.
Several groups of Taiwanese nationals have been deported back to China. The Kenyan government who carried out the deportation alleged the Taiwanese of engaging in cyber crimes.
A court in China has ruled against the appeal of a gay couple after being denied in their district to register for marriage. The case is the first ever LGBT-related lawsuit filed in the country.
Beijing are now studying ways on how to increase the participatory role of Hong Kong in interpreting the Basic Law. Over the past years, Hong Kong's legal domain has been overshadowed by the mainlands totalitarian control.
A judge on Wednesday ruled against a gay couple in China's first same-sex marriage case that was seen as a landmark moment for the country's emerging LGBT rights movement.
Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, who was a Taiwanese-born and became a naturalized US citizen was xhaged with spying and illegal sharing of confidential information to foreign country. He is assigned to Commander Patrol and Reconnaissance Group, a maritime patrol and reconnaissance unit in Norfolk.
China's President, Xi Jinping calls on to all the parties involved in the Korean Peninsula issue to start a dialogue. Xi also urges everyone not to make any remarks that would spark tension and impair the security of the countries involved.
On Monday, the Shanghai Stock Exchange said that it had for the first time delisted a company for violating disclosure rules, as China moves to restore its failing stock markets.
China reportedly sought the help of the United States to remove four of its ships from the United Nations blacklist after it was mistaken for being involved in an arms trade with North Korea.
The US government is planning to temporarily lift the trade sanctions that it imposed on ZTE Corporation. The future of the Chinese telecommunication provider however will still be dependent on its commitment with the US.
U.S. authorities have made another arrest in relation to the ongoing investigations on the United Nations bribery scandal, wherein a former U.N. General Assembly president faciliated the acquisition of diplmatic positions in exchange for large sums of money.
After the United States imposed new sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for its nuclear and rocket tests, China expressed its opposition to these unilateral sanctions saying they could raise tension,
A legal expert from Beijing suggested the positioning of Mainland Officers to the West Kowloon Terminus of the controversial Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway. This is withouth changing the Basic Law which implies that it will go directly under the noses of the lawmakers without being scruitinized.
China's top priority for the year 2016 involves battling and reducing corruption that's been lingering the country. Also, their fight against hostile forces will continue.
On Sunday, the Supreme People's Court of China said it will create an international maritime judicial center to protect its national sovereignty and maritime rights.
