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A fiery critic of China’s authoritarian government whose imprisonment and accounts of torture triggered international criticism of Beijing appears set for release yesterday amid concerns he will continue to be denied freedom
The death toll in southern China’s earthquake jumped from 410 to 589 yesterday as search and rescue teams found scores more bodies while pushing into isolated mountain communities to clear debris from
Southern Xinjiang will “implement family planning policy equally on all ethnic groups, to lower and stabilize an appropriate birth rate,” Zhang Chunxian wrote in the August edition of Qiushi, an
About 10,000 troops used pickaxes and backhoes to clear roads and dig residents from collapsed homes yesterday after an earthquake in southwest China that killed 410 people. Groups of volunteers, meanwhile, used
The United States will be looking to calm tensions stoked by recent Chinese oil drilling in disputed waters of the South China Sea at an upcoming meeting of the region’s foreign ministers,
Rescuers raced yesterday to evacuate villages near rising lakes formed by landslides, complicating relief efforts following a strong earthquake in southern China that killed 410 people and has left thousands homeless. Rescue teams
China’s smog-plagued capital has announced plans to ban the use of coal by the end of 2020 as the country fights deadly levels of pollution, especially in major cities. Beijing’s Municipal Environmental
Chinese authorities are investigating two Canadians citizens on suspicion of stealing state secrets about China’s military and national defense research, state media said. The official Xinhua News Agency said in a one-paragraph report
Rescuers dug through shattered homes yesterday looking for survivors of a strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province as the death toll rose to at least 398 people, with more than 1,800
The death toll in an explosion at a Chinese auto parts factory has risen to 75, as investigators fault poor safety measures and news reports reveal that workers had long
When a remote county in China’s far west exploded last week in what appeared to be the country’s worst ethnic violence since 2009, it took the government six days to put out
A suspected dust explosion at an automotive parts factory in eastern China that supplies General Motors killed at least 69 people and injured more than 180 others, state media reported yesterday, again
Chinese state media released a detailed casualty count yesterday for last week’s violence in the western province of Xinjiang, with 37 people and 59 attackers killed in the deadliest unrest
A strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes yesterday, killing at least 175 people and injuring more than 1,400. About 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely populated county
Authorities in Taiwan’s second-biggest city zeroed in on a petrochemical firm Saturday in their investigation into a series of gas pipeline explosions that killed 28 people and injured 286, as
A Chinese investigative journalist whose work has led to the ouster of corrupt officials and a Chinese environmental lawyer are among this year’s six recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards,
A gay Chinese man said yesterday he was suing a psychological clinic for carrying out electric shocks intended to turn him straight, as well as the search engine giant Baidu
Yesterday, they were finally permitted to attend the Defense Ministry’s monthly news briefing, marking a small milestone in the increasingly confident military’s efforts to project a more transparent image. Restrictions still
Already China’s biggest restaurant operator with 4,600 outlets, KFC is pursuing Chinese consumers so avidly it opens two more every day. That dramatic growth comes with a big catch: KFC’s quality control is
An outspoken Chinese minority scholar was indicted on separatism charges yesterday amid a renewed flare-up of bloody anti-government violence in the country’s far west. The prosecutor’s office in the Xinjiang regional
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