Melissa Chan

Melissa Chan

Melissa Chan is an American broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent.

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Melissa Chan is a national and foreign affairs reporter. She was a broadcast correspondent for Al Jazeera America, covering stories on social justice, the economy, the environment, and the rural American West. With Al Jazeera English, she served as China correspondent for five years before her expulsion from the country in 2012 for the channel's reports. She has also reported from Cuba, Canada, South Korea, North Korea, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Mongolia, Moscow, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Gaza. She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where she focused on developing digital security training for journalists facing potential hacker attacks from state-sponsored entities. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Remembering a son of Sichuan

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

Published On 3 Sep 2012

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

Published On 21 Jul 2012

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.

Published On 14 Mar 2012

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.

Published On 10 Mar 2012

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.

Published On 25 Jan 2012
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Challenges ahead for China

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.

Published On 23 Jan 2012

Reporting from the Far West

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.

Published On 17 Sep 2011
China uighers

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.

Published On 24 Sep 2011

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

Published On 11 Sep 2011
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