Melissa Chan

How coro­n­avirus and iso­la­tion turned Amer­i­ca’s nurs­ing homes into ‘killing fields’.

Coro­n­avirus has ex­posed the fact that the US is one of the only de­vel­oped coun­tries with­out paid sick leave.

Women whose knit­ted hats be­came a na­tion­al phe­nom­e­non want to keep the mo­men­tum of last month’s march in Wash­ing­ton.

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

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

Al Jazeera’s ex-Bei­jing cor­re­spon­dent says she cov­ered coun­try hon­est­ly and eq­ui­tably, af­ter hav­ing cre­den­tials re­voked.

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.

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.

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.

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.