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Pictures from Sheila Rivera's and Letlet Belmonte's wedding in 2013 hang on the wall of her living room.

Her husband was killed in the Philippines drug war. No one would help her find answers

August 21, 2019 at 7:48 p.m.

Sheila Rivera's nightmare began on June 20, when police burst into a subdivision and shot her husband to death. It continued when local officials refused to take her to his...

Chinese actor Wang Baoqiang, right, arrives May 17, 2013, with his wife Ma Rong for a screening of the film "Tian Zhu Ding" (A Touch of Sin) at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.

Sex, celebrity and scandal takes over the Internet (in China, too)

August 21, 2019 at 7:45 p.m.

China is in the midst of one of its biggest celebrity scandals in recent memory, a messy divorce which, over the last week, has dominated the country's Internet and turned...

Performers take part in a parade at the Disney Resort in Shanghai onJune 15, 2016, on the eve of the park'sgrand opening.Disney will open its first resort in mainland China on June 16.

Rain doesn’t dampen the mood of opening day at Shanghai Disney

August 21, 2019 at 6:48 p.m.

Under dark skies and intermittent showers, Walt Disney Co. officially threw wide the gates of its most expensive international resort to mostly orderly crowds on Thursday, creating an important beachhead...

Racist commercial in China sparks … outrage? Not exactly

August 21, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.

The ad is so brazenly racist that it delivers a visceral shock. A young Chinese woman is doing laundry. A young black man appears in the doorway, his face and...

One of the boats found off western Japan. At least 14 boats carrying more than 30 decomposing corpses have turned up since late last year.

North Korean ships with corpses on board have been washing ashore in Japan

June 22, 2019 at 6:19 p.m.

Shizuo Kakutani sees no great mystery in the things that wash ashore in Monzen, his quiet fishing village on the Sea of Japan — the fishing boats ravaged by fierce...

Chinese authorities recover $48 million worth of smuggled python skin

June 24, 2019 at 10:15 a.m.

Chinese authorities have recovered a massive haul of smuggled python skin worth $48 million, Chinese media reported on Monday, highlighting the scope of an international black market trade in the...

Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the spin room after a March 10 GOP presidential debate in Coral Gables, Fla.

Chinese watch Trump’s rise as many Americans do: with bemusement and dread

June 25, 2019 at 6:27 a.m.

Donald Trump called the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest a "riot" in a Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, responding to a question about a 1990 interview in which he said...

In countries where gay sex is taboo, Grindr opens a perilous door

May 17, 2019 at 9:26 p.m.

Within the quietly thriving gay scene in India's entertainment and financial capital, one thing appears to be common. "Everybody from the gay community is using Grindr," Inder Vhatwar, a Mumbai...

French journalist Ursula Gauthier holds a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticizing her.

China will expel journalist for criticizing Communist Party policies

June 24, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

China will expel a French journalist for writing an article that criticized the ruling Communist Party's policies in the ethnically riven northwestern area Xinjiang, marking the country's first expulsion of...

Heavily armed Chinese paramilitary police guard a popular mall in the Sanlitun district of Beijing on Thursday.

Americans in Beijing warned of terrorism threat; parts of city locked down

June 21, 2019 at 9:40 a.m.

The U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday morning warned citizens of a Christmastime terrorism threat against Westerners in one of the city's most popular expat districts. Beijing authorities put swaths...

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