![China's Xi pledges 'reunification' with Taiwan on party's birthday China's Xi pledges 'reunification' with Taiwan on party's birthday](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2021-07/51625106706_CHINA.jpg)
China's Xi pledges 'reunification' with Taiwan on party's birthday
While China has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control, Xi called for a process of "peaceful reunification".
Thu Jul 01 2021
![China celebrates centenary of Communist Party at Tiananmen Square China celebrates centenary of Communist Party at Tiananmen Square](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2021-07/41625105967_CHINA.jpg)
China celebrates centenary of Communist Party at Tiananmen Square
Xi said China had achieved its centenary goal of building "a moderately prosperous society."
Thu Jul 01 2021
![Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed for further 10 months over June 4 assembly Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed for further 10 months over June 4 assembly](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2021-05/51620273627_HONGKONG.jpg)
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong jailed for further 10 months over June 4 assembly
A 15-month sentence was reduced to 10 due to his guilty plea.
Thu May 06 2021
![HK activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty over June 4 'illegal assembly' HK activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty over June 4 'illegal assembly'](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/https://img.astroawani.com/2016-08/61471240808_JoshuaWong.jpg)
HK activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty over June 4 'illegal assembly'
Wong was among four people who pleaded guilty on Friday of participating in an illegal assembly on June 4 last year.
Fri Apr 30 2021
![Negara Barat lebih unggul, namun sosialisme masih jadi pilihan - Xi Jinping Negara Barat lebih unggul, namun sosialisme masih jadi pilihan - Xi Jinping](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2019-04/51554120765_XiJinping.jpg)
Negara Barat lebih unggul, namun sosialisme masih jadi pilihan - Xi Jinping
Parti Komunis perlu sedar bahawa sesetengah orang akan menggunakan kelebihan dunia Barat itu untuk menunjukkan kegagalan sistem sosialis.
Tue Apr 02 2019
![Mickey Mouse in Tiananmen Square as exhibition opens Mickey Mouse in Tiananmen Square as exhibition opens](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2015-06/41435679166_MickeyMouse.jpg)
Mickey Mouse in Tiananmen Square as exhibition opens
US cultural icon Mickey Mouse and a cohort of other Disney characters landed in the symbolic heart of the Chinese state Tuesday, as an exhibition opened in Tiananmen Square just steps from Communist.
Tue Jun 30 2015
![China charges seven activists after crackdown on pro-democracy protesters - Groups China charges seven activists after crackdown on pro-democracy protesters - Groups](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-07/71404453764_295x200.jpg)
China charges seven activists after crackdown on pro-democracy protesters - Groups
The activists were formally accused on Thursday of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" in the central province of Henan.
Fri Jul 04 2014
![China sentences three to death for Tiananmen attack China sentences three to death for Tiananmen attack](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-06/51402896028_295x200.jpg)
China sentences three to death for Tiananmen attack
Three people were sentenced to death Monday over a deadly suicide car crash in Beijing's symbolic heart Tiananmen Square.
Mon Jun 16 2014
![Tea Leaf Nation: There were many Tiananmens Tea Leaf Nation: There were many Tiananmens](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-06/41401803835_295x200.jpg)
Tea Leaf Nation: There were many Tiananmens
"There's been a massacre!" For the next two days, they demonstrated, with factory workers joining their ranks.
Thu Jun 05 2014
![Tiananmen Square: No trace of remembrance on 25th anniversary of protests Tiananmen Square: No trace of remembrance on 25th anniversary of protests](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-06/61401803126_295x200.jpg)
Tiananmen Square: No trace of remembrance on 25th anniversary of protests
The only sign of that day's lingering effects: swarms of police patrolling the square and stationed every few hundred feet on the roads leading up to it.
Thu Jun 05 2014
![Tiananmen Square: Now and Then Tiananmen Square: Now and Then](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-06/71401788489_300x250.jpg)
Tiananmen Square: Now and Then
Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen gate located to its North.
Tue Jun 03 2014
![China seeks to wipe Tiananmen from popular memory China seeks to wipe Tiananmen from popular memory](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-06/81401805355_295x200.jpg)
China seeks to wipe Tiananmen from popular memory
China's vast censorship machine does its utmost to wipe the slightest reference to the Tiananmen crackdown even from the minds of its younger generation.
Tue Jun 03 2014
![What you need to know about the Tiananmen Square crackdown 25 years ago What you need to know about the Tiananmen Square crackdown 25 years ago](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-06/41401803835_295x200.jpg)
What you need to know about the Tiananmen Square crackdown 25 years ago
Here are answers to some key questions about the protests and its aftermath.
Tue Jun 03 2014
![China blocks Google sites amid Tiananmen security drive China blocks Google sites amid Tiananmen security drive](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-06/81401803279_295x200.jpg)
China blocks Google sites amid Tiananmen security drive
Several Google websites have been blocked in China, a monitoring service said Tuesday, as authorities step up arrests and censorship before the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Tue Jun 03 2014
![25 years on, world happy to do business with Beijing's 'butchers' 25 years on, world happy to do business with Beijing's 'butchers'](https://resizer-awani.eco.astro.com.my/tr:w-177,h-100,q-100,f-auto/http://img.astroawani.com/2014-06/61401803126_295x200.jpg)
25 years on, world happy to do business with Beijing's 'butchers'
China's astonishing economic and military transformation means the world has largely set aside concerns on human rights as it courts the former pariah.
Tue Jun 03 2014