Yellowbird’s legacy is a bright ray of light in the bleak Chinese political landscape, writes Melinda Liu.

Only one of about 140 Chinese activists invited by the wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has confirmed he will attend the prize ceremony in Oslo, according to an organiser of the guest list.

FOREIGN journalists were barred from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square yesterday as police fanned out across the vast plaza ahead of today’s 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Foreign journalists were barred from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square today as an internet clampdown expanded on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.