Action hero gets real action in China

An Oscar winning Hollywood star got a taste of China’s heavy-handed treatment Thursday when he tried to meet a Chinese human rights activist detained at his home in a village barely 80 kms from the nation’s capital.

Chinese police beats Tibetan to death

Chinese police have beaten to death a young Tibetan man in Labrang in Amdo region of eastern Tibet.The incident occurred on December 9, when Chonjor, a Tibetan in his twenties was apprehended by Chinese police while he was riding a motor bike

China’s village standoff shows no sign of easing

Chinese security officials have sealed off a fishing village of over 20,000 people in Guangdong province in southern China in one of the most widely covered stand-offs between the public and the police over land dispute.