Chinese moviegoers also love foreign films”Transformers: Age of Extinction,” which was shot extensively in China, was a smash success. But it remains a tricky place for foreign filmmakers. Chinese regulators…
Hong Kong police used pepper spray Sunday to break up scuffles between protesters demonstrating against mainland Chinese shoppers and villagers from a border town. – Cosmetics, medicine and luxury goods…
“This was the PM 2.5 curve for Beijing in January 2013, when there were 25 days of smog in that one month,” explains Ms. Chai, a former Chinese television reporter,…
BEIJING — China on Saturday cut interest rates for the second time in three months, adding to signs that Chinese leaders are worried that the economic slowdown is deepening too…
BEIJING — At an elegant guesthouse here recently, China’s top Internet regulator entertained ambassadors and diplomats with platters of tempura and roast on a spit, unusual lavishness in an era…
HONG KONG — Fifteen people were reported to be missing Friday after a small boat overturned in heavy winds off the Chinese territory of Macau. – Go to Home Page…
But chances are he’ll feel right at home. From television shows and etiquette lessons to private schools and mock Tudor housing developments, China has been embracing British culture with a…
DAEJEONG, South Korea — Not far from Shin Yong-kyun’s strawberry farm are the crumbling remains of an airfield that Japanese colonialists built in the 1930s, to launch air raids against…
Related: Why Chinese moms want American babies There’s also more choice of products for Chinese shoppers. And they avoid the risk of counterfeit goods prevalent in China. But the main…
That’s what Chinese activists are saying in a petition issued this week that calls for the cancellation of China’s annual Lunar New Year Gala, a state TV extravaganza viewed last…
HONG KONG — Every weekday morning this year, China’s currency has followed the same ominous path. The central bank in Beijing fixes the initial value for the renminbi, the center…
HONG KONG — Every weekday morning this year, China’s currency has followed the same ominous path. The central bank in Beijing fixes the initial value for the renminbi, the center…
URUMQI, China — Urumqi, the capital of northwest Xinjiang Province, is a city that operates on two clocks. Trains, planes and business hours tend to correspond to “Beijing time,” while…
Looking across this sea of anxious faces, it’s easy to forget this is a holiday. Knotted brows frame weary eyes in a crowd as deep as a football field, all…
HONG KONG — The United States says it will expand air-quality monitoring at some overseas diplomatic missions, following several years of reporting pollution data in China. – The move angered…
Together they are members of what the Chinese press unkindly refer to as the “rat tribe”people who live underground in a warren of basements and air raid shelters in Beijing….
It’s triggered in part by millions of Chinese workers heading to their hometowns for the holidays. The migration lasts for 40 days — from February 4 to March 15 this…
She is a student at the famous Henan Shaolin Martial Arts School. In recent years, their gravity-defying brand of kung fu has become a staple of the annual televised Lunar…
Viewed from one angle, a hopeful tableau of Chinese-American relations unfolded over the weekend on a pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn: American and Chinese pyrotechnicians loading three barges with equipment…
SYDNEY — An Australian company has recalled its frozen berry products after a hepatitis A outbreak linked to poor hygiene and water supplies in a Chinese packaging plant. The Australian…
Population: 30,073,353 (July 2014 est.) Median age: 27.7 years Capital: Kuala Lumpur Ethnic Groups: Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, Indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, Others 7.8% (2004 est.) Religions: Muslim 60.4%, Buddhist…
HONG KONG — For the better part of the last 60 years, Bishop Cosma Shi Enxiang was imprisoned in Chinese jails and labor camps. For the last 14, he was…
However, weaknesses in its organizational structure including corruption among its ranksand in its combat capabilities mean it faces serious challenges. “These shortcomings could limit its ability to successfully conduct the…
But should we be ushering in the Year of the Sheep, Goat or Ram on February 19? It depends, says Isaac Yue, who teaches Chinese mythology at the University of…
HONG KONG — He was as obstinate as a Hunan mule, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said. China’s reformist officials and liberal intellectuals came to detest him, and he often…
A group of golden animal heads by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei representing the signs of the zodiac is up for sale in London. – A larger version of Ai’s zodiac…
HONG KONG — A Chinese billionaire who was building a mining empire in Australia was executed Monday after a court last year sentenced him to die for running a “mafia-style”…
Although the new year no longer seems, well, new, you don’t need to settle into the doldrums of winter on account of the solar calendar. (Who needs it, anyway?) In…
Perturbed, she convinced her husband to delay their plans to conceive. They now hope to have a baby in 2016 – the Year of the Monkey, according to the Chinese…
For example, last year Chinese hacker spies were caught breaking into nuclear power plants, steel manufacturers and a solar energy company. Anthem’s investigators believe they have an explanation for the…