The Shanghai Pengxin investment group's bid to buy 16 dairy farms in New Zealand has finally been green-lighted, with the group set to pay NZ $200 million ($163 million USD) in a deal that's been met with fierce opposition within New Zealand since it was first announced earlier this year. The deal was okayed after a lower bid made by the Maori-owned Tiroa Te Hape Trust was rejected by the New Zealand government. more ›

Students of Xiangji Middle School, in Hunan province, have protested against their full class schedule by burning books, covering the playground with their debris. Kindle owners at the school are presumably still looking for a way to display their anger. more ›

Hong Kong police have used pepper spray in the recent protests against CY Leung, the territory's new chief executive-elect who was recently voted to the position by a 1,200-member Election Committee. His critics say this will be a sign of increased suppression in the days ahead. more ›

Dozens of Tibetan protesters clash with Indian police in New Delhi following the arrival President Hu Jintao here. A Tibetan exile who self-immolated on Wednesday in protest against China has died. more ›

Hundreds of Tibetan exiles marched through parts of New Delhi to mark the anniversaries of the unsuccessful 1959 revolt and anti-Beijing riots which left many dead in the capital, Lhasa, in 2008. [Euronews] more ›

Makoto Sakurai, leader of the Japanese fascist group Zaitokukai, taunts visitors to the campus of the Korea University in Kodaira, Tokyo in a protest held on the 50th anniversary of the university earlier this winter. "I will kill you! I'm not joking!" he says, "We came here to kill North Koreans!" Established in 1956 by the de-facto North Korean embassy in Japan, Chongryon, the university receives funding directly from the DPRK government, and its graduates are often sent to teach at North Korean schools across Japan. While the full name of Zaitokukai means "Citizens against Special Privilege of Zainichi (Koreans)," the group has also been known to protest against Filipinos, Chinese and even Halloween. more ›

Approximately 300 demonstrators protested in Hong Kong today, marching from Causeway Bay to the government headquarters in Tamar, against a new policy that would allow mainland drivers access to Hong Kong roads. more ›

Interesting series of pictures showing you the scene at Muscatine, Iowa, a small town in the American heartland revisited by Vice President Xi Jinping yesterday after some 27 years. Hear Tibetan protestors chant against China after the jump... more ›

US vice president Joe Biden offers Chinese vice president Xi Jinping a toast as he pledges to improve China's human rights record: More videos after the jump... more ›

On Sunday, 19-year-old Tibetan nun Tenzin Choezin set herself ablaze in Aba, Sichuan Province, and passed away. Yesterday, another 19-year-old Tibetan monk by the name of Lobsang Gyatso from the same region did the same thing. This brings to 24 the total number of self-immolations since the Tibet riots of 2009. But really, is anyone counting anymore? more ›

Three protesters rappel from the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington DC to unfurl a banner which read, "Xi Jinping -- Tibet will be free." They were detained after hanging the sign. more ›

Angry Syrian and Libyan demonstrators threw rocks, eggs and tomatoes at the Chinese embassy in Tripoli to protest China's veto of a UN Security Council resolution urging Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down: more ›

Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where demonstrations are a normal thing. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where marches don’t end in disaster. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) roots out the dirt. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where the government isn’t in bed with business. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where refuge is provided for exiles [from the Tiananmen Protests]. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where June 4 is not forgotten. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where magazines are free. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where you don’t have to scale the [Internet] wall. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where the sense of human rights is strong. Thank goodness there is Hong Kong, where there are prospects for democracy. Thank goodness there is Taiwan and Hong Kong, when the mainland’s back bristles with thorns and no one dares step too far out of bounds! more ›

Lobsang Sangay, Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan government-in-exile, comments on the recent shootouts on Tibetan protestors in the first few days of the Chinese New Year, and calls upon Tibetans to halt celebrations of Losar, the Tibetan New Year. Transcript after the jump... more ›

Chinese military forces are said to have opened fire on a group of protesting Tibetans, killing one and wounding 30 others, according to Free Tibet, an activist group campaigning for self-determination by Tibetans. The incident happened after a large gathering in Draggo (also Drango, or Luhuo in Chinese), some 600km westwards of Chengdu. more ›

Guangdong party chief Wang Yang may have won praise for his light-handed approach in dealing with Wukan, but has he actually opened the floodgates for a wave of land grab protests? Yesterday, 1,000 villagers rallied at the Guangzhou city government headquarters as the provincial people's congress met elsewhere in the city for the closing ceremony of its annual session, according to the South China Morning Post: more ›

Guangdong's Wukan village will re-elect new village leaders after a wave of massive protests which lasted for around 3 months captured nationwide attention. Lin Zulian (林祖恋), the protest leader as well as the chief of a committee running the village after protesters gained control, has been appointed as the village's Party Chief and is to organize the upcoming village election. more ›

Though it's almost 2012, there's still time for more brawls in 2011 right? On December 28th, around 10pm, a pretty nasty brawl broke out between chengguan and some vendors outside a Xujiahui mall here in Shanghai. more ›

Protesters in Wukan, the village that captivated China watchers around the world during their bold stand-off with the Chinese government, have packed up shop and gone home after government concessions. more ›

An encaged performance artist set up shop in front of a Guizhou Province dog butcher shop yesterday to protest the consumption of dogs. Despite the 3 degrees celsius outside temperature, the 40-year-old canine advocate, Pian Shankong, was clad in nothing but a pair of underwear. Throngs of self-proclaimed dog volunteers joined him in the demonstration, chanting "do not eat dog meat." more ›

"For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt." So begins Telegraph correspondent Malcolm Moore's report of what he has personally witnessed in the fishing village of Wukan, Guangdong over the past few days. Enraged over government land grabs, villagers have now overrun local authorities and driven police out. They remain barricaded within their village, roadblocks set up by both police and villagers preventing food and water from entering. Here's a roundup of what's happening. more ›

Filipinos have hit the streets of Manila to protest against their own government for its failure in securing a stay on the execution of an unnamed drug trafficker yesterday. More on the Philippines here. more ›

The current wave of strikes and demonstrations continued this week, as more than 100 workers blocking a Tesco store in the city of Jinhua in Zhejiang province. Shoppers were prevented from entering the shop by the staff, who boldly blocked and barricaded the entrances and exits, while holding up banners with messages, including ''We want to protect our rights...Return our blood and sweat money.'' more ›

On Sunday, a Henanese couple decided the best way to pay off their outstanding hospital bill was to walk the streets bare naked with their children in tow in Dianbai County, Guangdong. more ›

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A Tibetan activist group has released a video that purportedly shows the moment Palden Choetso, set herself on fire and burned to death in a widely publicised self-immolation protest in Sichuan on November 3. More here. more ›

We kid you not: Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off blogger. Bullog.cn founder, and New Oriental English teacher Luo Yonghao tried getting the attention of Siemens via his Weibo when the door of his fridge refused to shut. When the company decided to ignore him, Luo got other angry customers to join him in an action to smash their fridges outside Siemens Beijing headquarters. Not only did Siemens decide to ignore the angry protestors, they called on the cops to clear them out. More on the hilarious story here. more ›

Thousands of workers in Dongguan, Guangdong Province staged a massive strike against new regulations imposed by their factory management on Thursday. Thousands of workers besieged their factory in Dongguan's Huangjiang Township and blockaded the town's main road. At one point, protesters were said to have numbered over 10,000. Conflicts broke out between riot police and protesting workers as the police tried to prevent workers from approaching the government building. Dozens of workers reportedly suffered head wounds after they were beaten by riot police. more ›