BEIJING (AP) — Restaurateurs in a southern Chinese town held an annual dog meat festival Monday despite international criticism of the event as cruel and unhygienic. The Yulin government distanced ...

A three-day dog-eating festival in China that has been practiced for the last 600 years has been banned after a wave of online outcry. The annual festival held in Qianxi Township, Jinhua City in ...

YULIN, China (Reuters) - China's southern city of Yulin began its annual dog meat festival on Tuesday despite opposition from animal rights activists, as residents complained of new government ...

WINDHAM — In the 15 years since the start of the Yulin Dog Meat Festival held annually in Guangxi, China, millions of dogs have been tortured and slaughtered. Though many of them are raised on “farms, ...

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The annual dog meat festival in Yulin, China is an ancient tradition for local residents to celebrate the summer solstice. An estimated 10,000 dogs were killed for the festival, despite efforts of ...

People in south China celebrated the annual dog meat festival on Saturday despite mounting protests from animal welfare groups and pet owners. On the festival, slated for June 21 this year to mark the ...

Every October the coastal Chinese township of Qianxi in Zhejiang Province hosts a three day long dog-eating festival during which around 15,000 dogs are killed and eaten. This carnival-like an event ...

A pair of German shepherds destined for a grim fate in one of China's meat markets have been rescued from the clutches of a "dogcatcher." In 2009, activist lawyer Julia De Cadenet set up No to Dog ...

A dog lover traveled over 1,000 miles to come to the rescue of an adorable malamute from China's brutal dog meat trade. Nikki Swannell, from Leeds in the U.K., a dog groomer, traveled to Paris and ...