Federal lawyers are in compensation talks with Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who were detained in China in 2018 the Globe and Mail reported in Tuesday.
Every spring, an old friend of mine named Xu Jue makes a trip to the Babaoshan cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing to lay flowers on the tombs of her dead son and husband. She always plans her visit for April 5, which is the holiday of Pure Brightness, or Qingming. The traditional Chinese calendar has three festivals to honor the dead and Qingming is the most
18 months after she was arbitrarily detained in Beijing, Australian journalist Cheng Lei, 46, has been given a small reprieve to watch the Olympics with other detainees at the Chinese prison where she s being held.