In February last year, Australian writer Yang Hengjun, known for blogging about human rights issues in China, was handed a ...

A former Chinese research institute engineer has been sentenced to death for selling highly classified information to foreign ...

It has been five long years for family, friends and allies of Dr Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen who has now been detained for half a decade by China on vague charges. The Australian writer ...

SYDNEY/BEIJING--A Beijing court on Monday handed Australian writer Yang Hengjun a suspended death sentence, five years after he was first detained in China and three years after a closed-door ...

Dr Yang's close friend Chongyi Feng says he's sad that no appeal will go ahead as he believes it has a strong basis, He says Dr Yang is very strong intellectually and very capable which is why he ...

BEIJING--The suspended death sentence handed to Australian writer Yang Hengjun in Beijing on Monday is unlikely to derail Australia-China ties but will test the limits of Canberra’s push to put ...

A Beijing court handed Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun a suspended death sentence on Monday, Foreign Minister Penny Wong of Australia said, some five years after he was detained in China.

Michelle Grattan discusses the increasing strain on the Australia-China relationship following the arrest of Dr. Yang Hengjun, and the government’s draft religious discrimination legislation.