How coronavirus and isolation turned America’s nursing homes into ‘killing fields’.

Melissa Chan is an American broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent.
How coronavirus and isolation turned America’s nursing homes into ‘killing fields’.

Al Jazeera revisits the Zhao family, whose 11-year-old son was buried in the 2008 earthquake.

Move to make army conscription compulsory for the Haredim community has brought the Israeli government to an impasse.

Melissa Chan reports from Beijing on a mother’s search for a missing daughter she says is among those being held in illegal detention centres.

Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan has a strange encounter with a rather Orwellian Chinese police officer, as she attempts to interview a rights attorney about the passage of a new law.

With critiques of Marxism and free-thinking seminars on politics and economics, China’s top school for Communist Party officials is far from the dour institution you might imagine.

This is the Year of the Dragon. The dragon is a great symbol of China, but its arrival portends bad luck and a challenging year ahead. That’s something the political leadership of China is certainly not oblivious to.

Al Jazeera travels through China’s border region to speak with members of the Uigher population – and is shadowed by plainclothes officers for the entire duration of the trip.

About 80,000 to 100,000 protests, what Beijing call "mass incidents," occur every year, many of them concerning the confiscation of farmland for commercial purposes as the economy continues to grow.

A wealthy coal-mining town in Inner Mongolia, designed to house one million people, remains nearly empty, five years after construction began.
