Internet users in China are increasingly sidestepping state officials and taking action into their own hands. Bloggers are not only probing the law in mainland China, but governments in other countries as well, such as the US. LinkAsia's Mark Drey...

Chinese citizens have been intensely following rescue and recovery efforts in China's Sichuan Province, after the region suffered its second major earthquake since 2008. China's CCTV presents the latest updates on the damage, while LinkAsia's Jing...

Chinese bloggers flooded Sina Weibo with expressions of sympathy and grief after news broke about the Boston bombing, and that one of the casualties was a Chinese grad student. Many took the opportunity to mourn, while other bloggers couldn't help...

A new strain of avian influenza, H7N9, has killed nine people and infected more than 30 others in eastern China. Authorities say that they found bird flu at five live poultry markets, and are closing them. State-run CCTV News reports that the outb...

China's journalists are mourning the man who censored one of China's most outspoken newspapers. Zeng Li, the government censor for Guangzhou's Southern Weekly paper, became an advocate for freedom of the press this past year as he witnessed censor...

China's state-run CCTV leveled serious charges against Apple this week, claiming that its customer service representatives discriminate against Chinese. But as LinkAsia's David Bandurski reports, CCTV itself is under fire for allegedly using an ar...

China has been horrified by the murder of a 2-month-old by a man who stole a family's car with the baby boy still in it. The public is outraged not just at the brutality of the crime, but by perceived police failings, media censorship of the case,...

A side effect of rapid industrialization and few regulations, China's rivers are often treated as little more than sewers. But as LinkAsia contributor Mark Dreyer reports, an online campaign to clean up the country's water is gathering steam.

"Can a search engine succeed if you have no concept of the free flow of information?" That was the question posed by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee on his Sina Weibo account, in response to the failure of China's government-run Jike search en...

When hermetically-sealed North Korea ran its third nuclear test this past week, the news first broke on Asian social media. It soon became the top trending topic on China's Sina Weibo and on Twitter in Japan and South Korea. Here is a sampling of ...