Louise Watt

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In this Oct. 5, 2014 photo, a man who is identified by local media as Leung Siu Hung, a stuntman, holding a cutter, threatens to jump off the bridge to against the Occupy Central movement outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty. In the Hong Kong protests, not all is as it seems. In the chaos of mass street protests, murky characters come into play. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

National Security

Murky players emerge from within Hong Kong protest

Louise Watt · October 7, 2014 5:36 pm

Student protesters rest as thousands occupy a main thoroughfare in Hong Kong, late Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. Hong Kong's leader refused to meet with pro-democracy demonstrators by their midnight deadline Tuesday, despite their threats to expand the protests that have clogged the streets with tens of thousands of people in the stiffest challenge to Beijing's authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Snapshots from the protest streets in Hong Kong

Louise Watt · October 1, 2014 2:33 am

Wrapped in plastic to shield from pepper spray, a student protester stands behind a makeshift barrier blocking main streets in the central business district of Hong Kong, late Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Pro-democracy protesters expanded their rallies throughout Hong Kong on Monday, defying calls to disperse in a major pushback against Beijing's decision to limit democratic reforms in the Asian financial hub. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong protesters set deadline for government

Louise Watt · September 30, 2014 2:05 am

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2012 file photo, a Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard underneath a surveillance camera at an entrance to the Number Two Detention Center in Beijing, China. Three police officers and four other people helping them have been convicted of torturing suspects to obtain confessions, China's official state news agency reported, in a rare example of a prosecution of the practice. The slogan on the wall reads "No small matter in detention center, everything concerns safety." (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)

China reveals cases of torture in police detention

Louise Watt · September 22, 2014 9:40 am

Chinese protesters march against trash incinerator

Energy and Environment

Chinese protesters march against trash incinerator

Louise Watt · September 14, 2014 4:56 am

HOLD FOR CHINA FOREIGN TV SHOWS BY LOUISE WATT In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, Chinese celebrities attend the party for Sohu's online streaming website to share their passion for U.S. tv shows in Beijing, China. Every foreign TV show and movie shown on Chinese online streaming sites will have to be approved by authorities by April or else go offline, the countryâs broadcast regulator said Friday, Sept 5, 2014 in a tightening of control over the online industry. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Video sites need China’s OK to air foreign content

Louise Watt · September 5, 2014 12:29 pm

(140903) -- BEIJING, Sept. 3, 2014 (Xinhua) -- A commemoration marking the 69th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japanese aggression is held at the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 3, 2014. (Xinhua/Wang Ye) (ry)

China’s top leaders remember victory over Japan

Louise Watt · September 3, 2014 7:20 am

In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, Li Xianting, a film critic and founder of the Li Xianting Film Fund, the organizer of the Beijing Independent Film Festival smokes as he meets journalists after he was released in Beijing, China. China is avidly wooing filmmakers to create more documentaries to replace popular dating, reality and game shows. But it is also stifling material with any whiff of challenging the Communist Party line. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China courts documentaries as it limits expression

Louise Watt · August 26, 2014 12:53 pm

In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, Li Xianting, a film critic and founder of the Li Xianting Film Fund, the organizer of the Beijing Independent Film Festival smokes as he meets journalists after he was released in Beijing, China. China is avidly wooing filmmakers to create more documentaries to replace popular dating, reality and game shows. But it is also stifling material with any whiff of challenging the Communist Party line. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China courts documentaries as it limits expression

Louise Watt · August 26, 2014 6:31 am

Mao’s archenemy Chiang Kai-shek part of mainstream

Louise Watt · August 17, 2014 9:58 pm

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 18, 2014, actor Gao Hu poses on the red carpet during the award ceremony of the Celebrity Citizens in Beijing, China. Gao, 40, who had a small part as a soldier in Zhang Yimou's 2011 movie "The Flowers of War," has become the latest Chinese celebrity to face drug charges in a wave of detentions that an official said Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 is one of China's sternest crackdowns on illegal drug use in two decades. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Chinese theaters won’t hire drug-linked performers

Louise Watt · August 14, 2014 8:32 am

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 18, 2014, actor Gao Hu poses on the red carpet during the award ceremony of the Celebrity Citizens in Beijing, China. Gao, 40, who had a small part as a soldier in Zhang Yimou's 2011 movie "The Flowers of War," has become the latest Chinese celebrity to face drug charges in a wave of detentions that an official said Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 is one of China's sternest crackdowns on illegal drug use in two decades. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Chinese theaters won’t hire drug-related actors

Louise Watt · August 14, 2014 1:31 am