PLANS to twin Dublin City with Beijing have met with opposition from councillors and human rights campaigners.

A GARDA who was wrongly disciplined for sending a letter to politicians without the permission of his superiors has been reprimanded for sending the same letter to an internal garda journal.

A CHINESE woman claims she was prevented by the Chinese Embassy from leaving Ireland to attend her mother's funeral because she is a practitioner of Falun Gong.

A Trinity College student and Falun Gong practitioner who has been imprisoned in a Chinese labour camp for more than two years will be freed this March, according to the Department for Foreign Affairs.

The Chinese Premier has agreed to examine the case of a Trinity College