Police detained the fiancé of a young migrant worker who died under suspicious circumstances in Beijing, after he tried to learn more about her death.

After being besieged by a Communist Party front group for ten months, Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners thought they had prevailed over an attempt to silence them. Then the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department entered the picture.

Chinese living in Shanghai remain anxious about water contamination due to dead pigs in the local river, but authorities keep saying everything is fine.