Mandarin-language standup comedy is growing, and not just in China. The medium has taken off in the last decade, and China’s expatriate population has established clubs in cities like New York, Tokyo and Madrid.
The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” yesterday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute
A Hong Kong court postponed until Jan. 29 a court hearing scheduled yesterday on troubled Chinese property developer Evergrande’s winding-up petition. Evergrande is trying to win support
One of Hong Kong’s best-known activists who moved to Canada to pursue her studies said she would not return to the city to meet her bail
A Hong Kong court will convene a hearing today on troubled Chinese property developer Evergrande’s plans for restructuring its more than $300 billion in debts and staving
JIM GOMEZ, MANILA China has executed two Filipinos for drug trafficking despite high-level Philippine government appeals to commute their death sentences to life in prison,
China yesterday presented the United Nations Security Council with a four-point plan for Middle East peace in a demonstration of its ambitions to be a global superpower. Chinese
China's defense ministry said Thursday that the U.S. should stop interfering in both Taiwan and the South China Sea, saying U.S. arms sales
An official survey of Chinese manufacturers shows that factory activity contracted for a second straight month in November, an indicator of weak demand despite various stimulus measures aimed
Myanmar and China are conducting naval drills together as the military government in the Southeast Asian nation loses ground in its northeast border region to a coalition
A violent rock burst in a coal mine killed 11 people in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province on Tuesday, Chinese state broadcaster yesterday CCTV reported. Mining work can
A Hong Kong court started hearing the final arguments yesterday of some of the city’s best-known pro-democracy activists tried under the security law. The activists’ subversion trial
In one painting, a child sits, mouth wide open, as a worker in white medical garb extends a long cotton swab toward her tonsils. In another, a
A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and
A Beijing court began compensation hearings yesterday morning for Chinese relatives of people who died on a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014 on a flight to
The top diplomats from South Korea, Japan and China met yesterday to discuss when to resume their leaders’ trilateral summit after a four-year hiatus and how to
Chinese officials say they did not detect any “unusual or novel diseases” in the country, the World Health Organization said last week, following an official
Fiji's leader says that after meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, he hopes to collaborate with China on upgrading his nation’s shipyards and ports. Sitiveni Rabuka made the remarks
Policy support, innovation and strong investment have seen the country leapfrog global competitors. Hou Liqiang reports. More than four decades ago, lacking the necessary technology and
The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in
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