China's human rights record worsened last year as authorities increased harassment of activists and repression in the Xinjiang region, the US State Department said Thursday. "The government's human rights record remained poor and worsened in some areas," the annual report by the State Department said. It said Beijing "increased the severe cultural and religious repression of ethnic minorities ...

A New York-based musician is appealing for help to find her husband who vanished as he boarded a flight from China to the United States amid fears he was seized for his Falungong beliefs. Mei Xuan, who fled to the United States from China in 2007, said she went on February 18 to Newark Liberty International Airport, flowers in ...