The Latest Breaking News from Yang Hengjun

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese believes securing face time with the Chinese President Xi Jinping is a sign of success, after six years in the diplomatic freezer.

Foreign affairs minister meets Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at G20 in Bali to push for end to ‘coercive’ sanctions

Xiao Qian says there is no reason for China and Australia to be enemies as his address is interrupted by protests

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s decision to embark on a diplomatic offensive to outflank China in the Pacific within days of being sworn in has yielded what appears to have been an early success.

MPs from around the world tell Jacinda Ardern that case of murder suspect Kyung Yup Kim could set ‘dangerous precedent’

Chinese Australian writer Mavis Yen's experience of the White Australia Policy and China's Cultural Revolution shed light on how discrimination has been interwoven with the politics of both countries, but her pain is still being felt today.

Human rights advocates demand senior Olympics official John Coates raise the plight of fellow Australians jailed in China when he travels to Beijing later this month for the Winter Games.

China's foreign ministry spokesman says Australia is trying to interfere with its "judicial sovereignty" after Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne called for the immediate release of the writer Yang Hengjun.

Yang Hengjun was arrested in 2019 on espionage charges and his supporters fear he will be left to die of ‘medical neglect’

The Australian government and human rights groups said they are concerned about the deteriorating health of Australian blogger Yang Hengjun, three years after he was detained in China, and with a Beijing court yet to deliver a verdict in an espionage trial heard in secrecy eight months ago.

Friends of an Australian writer detained by China on suspicion of spying fear his deteriorating health could see him eventually die behind bars.