Hundreds of Taiwanese workers in tourism-related businesses rallied in the capital yesterday to draw attention to a sharp decline in Chinese visitors that is putting their industry under heavy strain. Workers
China, which is believed to execute more convicted people than the rest of the world combined, said that it uses the death penalty only on “a very small number of
The highest-ranking Chinese Communist Party official investigated in more than than a year is a former subordinate of President Xi Jinping’s. Huang Xingguo - mayor and acting party chief of northern
Friday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and ran it virtually uncontested until his death on Sept. 9, 1976. While
Taiwanese prosecutors have closed their investigation into a July bus crash that killed all 26 people on board, including 23 Chinese tourists, saying the driver was suicidal and that they
A new scholarship program intended to rival the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships and build understanding between China and the world opened its doors at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University on Saturday. The program, founded by
Chinese flag-carrier Air China said yesterday that it had removed copies of its inflight magazine containing an article criticized as racist for telling visitors to take precautions when visiting areas
President Barack Obama put the long-simmering dispute in the South China Sea front and center on the agenda at a regional summit yesterday as it became clear that most of
The chief architect of the Chinese revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong, has died at the age of 82. His death - at 10 minutes past midnight - was announced by the Central
Armenia has sent 129 Chinese and Taiwanese telecoms fraud suspects to China, state media reported yesterday, indicating both the growing reach of such criminal enterprises and China’s determination to shut
Four years after they went into a nose dive, tense relations between China and Japan may finally be headed for a return to some semblance of normalcy. Those hopes rest largely
China said yesterday that it would assist Kyrgyzstan in apprehending those behind a suicide car bombing on the Chinese Embassy in Bishkek last week that has been blamed on members
The Philippine government yesterday released what it says are surveillance pictures of Chinese coast guard ships and barges at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, in an apparent
A summit of Southeast Asian leaders to discuss issues ranging from terrorism to South China Sea tensions opened testerday, overshadowed by the Philippine president’s intemperate comments in his debut appearance at
In the wake of another missile launch, President Barack Obama vowed to work with the United Nations to tighten sanctions against North Korea, but added that the U.S. was still
Ji Mengyu sinks into a soft chair with her cup of tea to the sound of tinkling teaspoons and light chatter. The opulently decorated Victorian tea salon is quintessentially British,
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrapped up his week-long visit to China by assuring a Hong Kong audience that his efforts to improve relations with the Asian country won’t prevent
Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates won enough seats in a pivotal legislative election to retain veto power over the southern Chinese government’s proposals, setting the stage for a new round of
China agreed to steps toward reducing its politically volatile steel exports but avoided binding limits as leaders of major economies ended a summit yesterday with a forceful endorsement of free
A China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd. project restricted to Hong Kong residents sold out all 300 apartments on the first day, the company said, while two other developers launched
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