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 — ...

When the law lags behind, citizens end up doing investigative work themselves, and pay for it when the people they expose ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There has been growing awareness of animal welfare issues in China in recent years. Chinese authorities have detained a man who has caused public outrage for torturing dogs and filming the abuse 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 ...

This year, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the addition of animal cruelty data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). This accomplishment came ...