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HONG KONG (AP) — While Hong Kongers crammed into a park today (Saturday) to remember the victims of China's bloody crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square 27 years ago,
As a teenager, Wang Keming felt nothing but contempt for the older peasant his village singled out for collective persecution in 1970. Stirred by Mao Zedong’s radical ideology and inured
China’s government won’t interfere with fasting and other standard religious activities in the traditionally Muslim region of Xinjiang during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan that begins this month, officials
China’s visiting foreign minister publicly berated a Canadian journalist yesterday for asking a question about his country’s human rights record. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said it was “irresponsible” of
Growing tensions in the disputed South China Sea will drive up defense spending in the Asia-Pacific region by almost 23 percent by the end of the decade, consultancy IHS Jane’s
Mitsubishi Materials Corp., one of dozens of Japanese companies that used Chinese forced laborers during World War II, reached a settlement covering thousands of victims yesterday that includes compensation and
A former tycoon who was one of Taiwan’s most wanted fugitives was in the middle of a decade-long fight to stay in the United States when he was killed in
Attackers in Mali killed one Chinese U.N. peacekeeper and injured four in an early morning attack on their base yesterday, China's Foreign Ministry said. Spokeswoman Hua Chunying described the attack as
Mothers of some of those killed in the bloody crackdown on China’s 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement say they have lived through 27 years of state-led “terror and suffocation” and vow
Beijing prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating the death in police custody of a young college graduate and new father who had been picked up on suspicion of visiting prostitutes,
Chinese residents pumped a record amount of money into Hong Kong insurance in the first quarter even as the mainland government tightened restrictions on the purchases, which serve as a
Beijing has Shijingshan, known as “Fake Disney,” Shenzhen has a park with replica landmarks and Yunnan province has Dwarf Empire, an attraction based on little people. With already 300 theme parks
A former tycoon wanted on allegations of embezzlement and fraud in Taiwan has died in a car accident in California, the island’s foreign ministry confirmed yesterday. He had been hiding
A 28-year-old transgender man who goes by the name of “Mr. C” has become the public face of the fight for job equality in China, where sexual and gender minorities
These days, when people over 80 in Beijing take a bus, see a doctor or spend money, their activities are digitally tracked by the government, as part of an effort to improve services for the country’s rapidly growing elderly population. The
A Hong Kong activist whose beating by police was caught on video was sentenced yesterday to five weeks in prison on charges related to the confrontation, stirring outrage among pro-democracy supporters. Local
China features prominently in the rhetoric of presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who accuses the country of stealing American jobs and cheating at global trade. In China though, he’s only just emerging as a public figure, despite notoriety elsewhere for his voluble utterances, high-profile businesses
China yesterday lashed out at criticism from U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, accusing him of harboring a Cold War mentality and saying Beijing has no interest in “playing a role
China’s decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand for fertility treatment among older women, putting heavy pressure on clinics and breaking down
Just to get home from school, they climb 800 meters toward the sky — on a ladder made of bamboo and secured to a sheer cliff face. After pictures surfaced of
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