The website operated by the Tibetan government-in-exile was recently hacked in what experts called a "highly targeted attack." The attack reportedly infected visitors of the Chinese language version of the website by installing software on their computers that could be used to monitor their online behavior.
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The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an influential state think tank, recently published a report deploring the laojiao labor camp system.
According to a report conducted by China's environment ministry on air pollution, only 4 of 74 cities surveyed have acceptable levels of air pollution. The Chinese government defines the threshold for acceptable air pollution as 35 micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic meter, 10 micrograms higher than the standard set by the World Health Organization.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Stanley Lubman, professor at Berkeley Law, points out critical flaws in China's recent anti-corruption campaign.
DHARAMSHALA, July 28: The United States has said that it would seek improvements in China’s human rights record, including its treatment of ethnic minorities, during talks on human rights next week.
A man who was told by officials they couldn't register his fourth child because he didn't pay a penalty for breaking China's family planning laws stabbed to death two government workers and injured four others, state media and an official said.
A new Freedom House report found that Internet controls have increased under China's new leadership. As a result, it is more difficult for Internet users to conceal their identities or bypass censorship controls through using circumvention tools. This increased surveillance has made it significantly easier for Chinese authorities to identify and arrest political dissidents.
In its 2013 annual report on human trafficking, the US State Department classified China as a tier-3 country for human trafficking, meaning that it is among the countries with the highest rates of human trafficking in the world. Other tier-3 countries include Iran, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, and Sudan.