China

The World Health Organization’s annual assembly refused Monday to discuss admitting Taiwan to the meeting, under pressure from China and despite impassioned pleas from several countries. Taiwan has been blocked from attending the assembly in recent years by China, which considers the island a renegade province to be reunified with the mainland. There...

Hong Kong: With no sincerity in its effort to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, China, which is the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, has now started deriding the landmark climate legislation of the United States signed into law by President Joe Biden in the third week of August,...

China provides a “glaring example” of how governments are cracking down on religious minorities, a US official has said, as the Department of State released its annual report on religious freedom around the world. Rashad Hussain, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said during a news conference on Thursday...

Beijing: Beijing's bar-related COVID-19 cluster infection has spilled over to its eastern neighboring city Sanhe. The city has been put under temporary static management, which will be lifted if results of the three rounds of citywide nucleic acid testing from Saturday to Monday are all negative.Sanhe, a city adjoining...

Beijing: The presence of Chinese Private Military Companies (PSCs) in Africa is expected to increase Beijing's interference in the country, besides violation of human rights and increased illegal activities.China has been using PSCs as a ploy to maintain a discreet military presence in Africa and avoid being seen as...

After Fiona Hu left her small rural hometown at 18 years old, she put in decades of hard work to start her own beauty salon in Guangzhou. But after two years of on-again, off-again business due to the coronavirus pandemic, she is drowning in debt and her dream is turning...

Beijing: At least 15 people have died in torrential rains across southern China, state media reported Saturday.Eight died in two building collapses from landslides in Fujian province, near China's east coast, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the Wuping county information office.Five others died and three were missing...

Taichung, Taiwan – When Hao Pengfei retired last year, it felt nothing like he had expected it would when he was a younger man. “I used to think that retirement is more about relaxation and hobbies and less about stress and concerns,” Hao told Al Jazeera from his home in...

The disappearance of China's defence minister, the latest in a string of upheavals in the country's top ranks, is stoking uncertainty about President Xi Jinping's rule as an internal security clampdown trumps international engagement. The growing unpredictability could affect the confidence other countries place in the leadership of the world's...

WASHINGTON: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Sunday that President Joe Biden has asked his team to look at the option of lifting some tariffs on China that were put into place by former President Donald Trump, to combat the current high inflation. "We are looking at it. In...