China's Andy Rooney on How Great the Chinese Government Is – Humour

China's government is coming under increasing pressure to reduce its use of the death penalty, slowly shifting the country's legal system away from centuries of authoritarian tradition and toward greater legal protection for individual rights.

CHINA'S legal system has struck again against a successful Australian business person - this time a single mother who founded a private university in Guangzhou.

The case of Charlotte Chou has been kept quiet since she was taken from her home on June 24, 2008, while her one-year-old boy was asleep.

A Chinese netizen satire defending the Nanjing government official recently criticized by the public for smoking super expensive cigarettes and other luxuries.

China broke days of stony silence on Thursday about the cause of a deadly crash on its new high-speed rail system, as officials acknowledged a serious design flaw in signaling equipment and the prime minister visited the crash site and promised to prosecute those responsible for an accident that has infuriated the Chinese public.

Chinese officialdom is struggling to respond to waves of satire on the internet, regularly used by 123 million people.

Andy Keller of Portrait of an LBX reflects back on time spent in Kashgar and recent trips to other old towns (古镇) in China and speculates that the two extreme fates of old towns in China -- residents kicked out and area turned into a ticketed museum or demolition, sale and development -- are the result of a skewed system of incentives for local officials that emphasize GDP growth over quality of l

Beijing's pea soup air shrouding the city for days on end, all while the Chinese government says air quality in the city continues to improve. While Chinese government sanctioned media reports only "light pollution", Beijingers are becoming increasingly concerned and are taking to weibo to get true air quality readings.

In recent weeks, people have been talking about Crazy Crab -the pseudonym of the first cartoonist who challenges China’s Great Firewall doing political satire. Hexie Farm, a political satire comic book, has attracted lots of attention from internet users around the world.

Chinese Internet users are frequently subject to the censorship system known as The Great Firewall. This system prevents them from accessing foreign news sites, and anything that the Communist Party deems 'unsuitable' or 'destabilizing.' This new YouTube video instructs Chinese netizens how to use Global Pass to not only punch through the Great Firewall, but also to encrypt your identity...