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Wan Changru’s 6-year-old daughter collects passes — for her dance school, English lessons and other extra-curricular classes, anything bearing her name that she can pretend is an identity card. The girl
Masked men attacked a government office in western China, smashing vehicles and equipment and leaving 13 people injured in a regional dispute over farmland, local authorities and state media said yesterday. The
Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog yesterday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city’s vehicles off the
One of China’s most wanted fugitives voluntarily returned from the U.S. on Saturday in a new victory for the government’s campaign to track down corruption suspects who have fled abroad, the ruling
China’s president pledged USD60 billion to development in Africa on Friday, as part of what Chinese and African leaders have called “win-win cooperation.” President Xi Jinping made the announcement to rousing applause
Elementary and middle schools in Beijing will suspend outdoor activities after China’s capital issued an orange alert for smog this week, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The suspension also
China’s campaign of island building in the South China Sea might soon quadruple the number of airstrips available to the People’s Liberation Army in the highly contested and strategically vital region. That could be
The Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court announced the trial against Cai Rongsheng, the former admissions head at Renmin University in Beijing, but the panel was not immediately available yesterday to offer
A court in northern China has sentenced four people to be executed over the deaths of coal miners who were slain in a plot to collect compensation. The four were found
In tightly packed Hong Kong, the dead are causing a problem for the living. After Chui Yuen-sing’s mother died in April, she was cremated and her ashes put in storage while
Chinese officials yesterday accused a French journalist of political bias for her reporting on Beijing’s efforts to equate ethnic violence in the western Muslim region of Xinjiang with global terrorism. In
Bereaved parents of only children staged protests in Beijing this week seeking greater compensation, in a sign of one of the far-reaching consequences of China’s recently scrapped one-child policy, the
China welcomes the inclusion of the yuan in the Special Drawing Rights basket and vows to dissolve risks and improve the mechanism to orderly push for the currency’s convertibility under
A cold front that swept choking smog from northern China couldn’t have come sooner for Beijing’s mayor. After days of hazardous pollution forced people to wear masks and huddle indoors, residents
President Xi Jinping’s five-day trip to Africa comes as the continent suffers more than anywhere else from China’s slowing economic growth and an associated rout in the value of the
For four hours every day, for 100 days, Chinese artist Wang Renzheng held up the attachment of an industrial vacuum cleaner to suck in Beijing’s notoriously polluted air at various landmarks. Passers-by were intrigued, inquiring if he was
Schools in the Chinese capital kept students indoors and parents brought their kids to hospitals with breathing ailments yesterday as Beijing grappled with extremely severe air pollution for the fifth
Chinese manufacturing was at its weakest in more than three years in November despite stimulus measures to bolster the world’s No. 2 economy while service industries improved, according to an
To see China’s evolving foreign policy, look to Africa, where a desire to protect economic investment is leading to a revision of the country’s hands-off approach to the internal affairs
Old foes China and Taiwan have swapped high-level convicted spies in a sign of goodwill linked to the first meeting ever between their presidents. Each side released the convicts and allowed them to
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