Chinese Citizen Journalist Zhang Zhan Given Four-Year Prison Sentence For Coronavirus Reporting

Richard Kuipers It’s no great leap forward in filmmaking, but the big-budget disaster movie “Skyfire” does prove that China is now capable of producing its own brand of utterly preposterous and enjoyably trashy popcorn entertainment for a global audience.

After overtaking North America as the world's biggest box office last year, China's film market is off to a roaring start in 2021. The country's cinemas sold nearly $200 million worth of tickets over the New Year holiday, the strongest first weekend since record-keeping began in 2011.

Democrats and their mainstream media allies are hell-bent on suppressing dissenting voices as the Biden administration takes office, Laura Ingraham warned viewers Tuesday.  "The Ingraham Angle" host called out Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson, who said during an appearance on MSNBC earlier Tuesday that "there are millions of Americans, almost all White, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed.  "It is as though they are members of a cult, the Trumpist cult,"

Former California Sen. Barbara Boxer raised eyebrows this week after first registering as a foreign agent with the Chinese surveillance company Hikvision, then later "deregistering" Tuesday.

straight to your inbox every day for freeIt's Wednesday - derby day - and the streets around Old Trafford are all but deserted.In more normal times Sir Matt Busby Way would be thronged with thousands of expectant supporters making their way to the ground for one of the biggest games of the year.But since the pandemic struck and professional football was initially suspended, then allowed to continue without fans, it's been a different story.Matt Bonilla is the general manager of The Trafford, a

Rebecca Davis editorOfficial Chinese state media had a field day Thursday with the invasion of the U.S. capitol by armed supporters of Donald Trump.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefU.S. President Donald Trump stepped up his actions against Chinese tech firms on Tuesday with the publication of an executive order targeting Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChatPay.The move pointed to a widening gulf between the western world still reeling from coronavirus and the chaos of the U.S.

A three-judge panel on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has upheld the bribery conviction for Chi Ping Patrick Ho, the former Hong Kong home affairs secretary and former chairman of a think tank funded by a Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, a citizen journalist is sentenced to four years of jail time by the Chinese government, ITV Hub posts record 2020 statistics and Irrfan Khan-starrer “The Song of Scorpion” gets a special re-release to honor the actor.TRIALZhang Zhan, a former lawyer-turned-citizen journalist, has been sentenced to four years in prison, becoming the first publicly acknowledged person to be tried and convicted for contradicting the Chinese government’s official account of

Lin Qi, Chairman and CEO of Chinese game developer Yoozoo and an executive producer on Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of The Three-Body Problem, has been hospitalized in what is alleged to be a poisoning attempt. A man the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government described as a “colleague” has been detained in what it said is an ongoing investigation.

Rebecca Davis editorThe chairman of China’s Yoozoo Group Lin Qi, an executive producer on Netflix’s upcoming high-profile sci-fi adaption “The Three-Body Problem,” is currently hospitalized after what a police report indicated Wednesday may be a murderous poisoning carried out by a colleague involved in managing that IP.Netflix announced in September that it will adapt all three books in the critically acclaimed “Three-Body Problem” sci-fi trilogy by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, with “Game of

A Florida animal shelter says it has helped rescue 20 golden retrievers from winding up on a meat market menu in China in a monthslong rescue operation involving volunteers on two continents. "I had a dream, and on Sunday it became a reality," Kristine Minerva, who organized the project, told Fox News in an email Tuesday.

Iowa Democrat Rita Hart was on the payroll of two Chinese companies while running to represent the state’s 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives, a financial disclosure shows.