A public outrage has erupted in Chongqing, China, after police detained a suspect accused of posing as an animal adopter before filming acts of cruelty for online distribution. The man, identified by ...

When videos showing the horrific killing of a stray dog and her puppies sparked outrage on the Chinese internet in June, Beijing's censorship machine kicked into action. But what was unusual this time ...

Chinese police in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality have opened an investigation into a man accused of harming multiple dogs after days of public protests prompted local authorities to issue ...

An animal welfare organisation has welcomed efforts by the Hong Kong police to have footage of an animal cruelty incident in Guangdong removed from local social media platforms. Following a backlash, ...

Compassionate animal advocates recently gathered in Washington, D.C., and Chicago to call for stronger animal protections in China — which lacks a national anti-cruelty law for companion animals — ...

It seems these days that it is impossible to turn on the television or log onto the Internet without being subjected to increasingly graphic images of suffering animals in Asia. The West has come to ...

At the end of June 2026, the Internet was shaken by the case of Wang Wang, a stray dog who gave birth to three puppies and later was brutally killed in Pingpu village in Guangdong province, China. The ...