The Latest Breaking News from Cheng Lei

A group of Australians detained by authoritarian regimes have urged liberal democracies to work together and become more creative in managing hostage diplomacy.

Plans to implement Article 23 have raised fears of a further slide in freedoms in the financial hub.

Australia expresses shock and concern over China's suspended death sentence for democracy blogger Yang Hengjun, urging for his wellbeing and medical care.

Recently freed journalist Cheng Lei has thanked the prime minister for his government's efforts after she spent nearly three years imprisoned in China.

Dr Yang Hengjun has spent years detained in China, but with Beijing offering no signals of a potential release, the government must do more, an advocate says.

Ambassador says there is ‘no room at all’ for compromise on ‘sensitive’ issue, and offers gloomy assessment on prospects for release of writer Dr Yang Hengjun

There are new programs and new faces at the news network as it ramps up its political coverage for the year ahead.

The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai will meet with Britain’s foreign secretary on Tuesday to lobby for the U.K.'s help in securing his release from prison

Recently freed Australian journalist Cheng Lei says Australians who’d like to travel to China should not be naive about the risks, and an Indigenous land council responsible for cultural heritage plans in a wide area of Victoria has gone into administration after reported allegations of fraud totalling more than $150,000.