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‘Gravest national security concerns’: Chinese students charged in US with smuggling fungus

Prosecutors say the two, who were a couple, tried to bring “a potential agro-terrorism weapon” into “the heartland of America” and may have previously snuck in material hidden in their shoe.

  • Devlin Barrett

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Ted Hui: “There’s value in staying in prison. It’s a moral call. But not everyone had to do it. People can be outside shouting, we have some value as well.”

He evaded Beijing’s clutches. But this Adelaide lawyer is still a wanted man

A fake climate conference, friends in far-flung places … a pro-democracy activist reveals the story of his dramatic escape from Hong Kong.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the prime minister’s address to the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Wong weaponises Liberal ‘Chinese spies’ gaffe in battle for vote

Concerns about the risk of Chinese government influence have bedevilled all sides in this election as parties vie for the key voter group.

  • Max Maddison, Paul Sakkal and Kayla Olaya
Monique Ryan volunteers.

Election watchdog opens probe into Monique Ryan volunteer video

The video shows two people in Ryan campaign T-shirts handing out the teal MP’s how-to-vote cards and saying they were directed to vote for her by groups with links to the Chinese Communist Party.

  • Paul Sakkal
Pope Francis has an outstanding wish to visit China. How far will the Vatican go to deliver it?

Pope Francis has an outstanding wish. How far will the Vatican go to deliver it?

No Pope has set foot in China, but Francis wants that to change. Critics say the cost of doing deals with Beijing has already been too high.

  • Lisa Visentin
Ted Hui, a former Hong Kong pro- democracy legislator, is now in exile in Australia.

‘Gangster regime’: Hong Kong dissident targeted by threatening letter

An exiled Hong Kong activist has insisted he will not be silenced after his Australian law firm received a threatening letter offering a reward for his arrest.

  • Matthew Knott
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The Hong Kong government has a $200,000 bounty on the head of Australian pro-democracy activist Kevin Yam.

I have a price on my head. I hope my neighbours won’t try to cash in

This week, letters arrived at homes in Melbourne offering a $200,000 bounty on my head. It would be claimable if I was taken to Hong Kong. In short, the letters call for me to be kidnapped.

  • Kevin Yam
Exiled Hong Kong lawyer Kevin Yam.

$200k to betray a neighbour: The Hong Kong letters pursuing dissidents in Australia

The office of Foreign Minister Penny Wong has raised concerns with Chinese authorities after letters appeared on Australian doorsteps offering large sums of money for information about dissidents.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Eryk Bagshaw
Shen Yun in Sydney.

Their posters are everywhere, but behind Shen Yun lies a darker story

The group promises to take audiences into 5000 years of Chinese history, but it is the result of a spiritual movement established in 1992.

  • Anthony Segaert
Matthew Radalj, 39, spent nearly 5 years in jail in China following what he says was an extortion attempt at an electronics store where he had taken his yellow iphone to be repaired.

Matthew went to get his iPhone fixed – and spent the next five years in a Beijing jail

An Australian man says an extortion attempt at an electronics repair store landed him in prison, where he was forced to confess to stealing his own phone.

  • Lisa Visentin

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