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Tiger mauls grandmother to death at Beijing safari park

August 21, 2019 at 7:23 p.m.

Beijing Badaling Wildlife World promises visitors a safari experience just 30 miles from the center of the Chinese capital — customers can drive their own cars through a park where...

Tourists pose in front of a giant portrait of Mao Zedong at the gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing on May 16, 2016.

‘Barbaric,’ ‘cultural genocide’: GOP platform’s tough words rile China

August 21, 2019 at 7:19 p.m.

Reacting to strong language in the GOP'S 2016 platform, which criticizes China over issues including Internet censorship, destroying churches and "cultural genocide" in Tibet, Beijing on Thursday urged U.S. Republicans...

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...

Davao City Mayor and presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte shakes hands with supporters in Lingayen, Philippines, on March 2.

Philippines presidential candidate draws comparisons to Trump

June 22, 2019 at 10:57 a.m.

Like your presidential politics spicy, but need a break from the Trump-Cruz-Kasich-Sanders-Clinton circus? Then cast your gaze to the Philippines, where the 2016 campaign has become a nail-biter between a...

Then Democratic Progressive Party candidate Tsai Ing-wen talks to journalists after casting her ballot in Taipei.

Taiwan elects Tsai Ing-wen as first female president

June 21, 2019 at 7:13 a.m.

Taiwan elected 59-year-old Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party as the island's first female president on Saturday, ousting the Nationalists from the presidential palace after a campaign that hinged...

An investor observes stock market data in Huaibei, China.

China stocks plunge to a halt after just 14 minutes of trading

March 30, 2019 at 12:12 a.m.

China's trading day was just getting underway Thursday for stockbroker Yang Xu when the markets lurched to a halt 13 minutes after their 9:30 a.m. opening. Shares on the Shanghai...

Kuo Kai-wen, director of Taiwan's Seismology Center, explains the locations from a monitor showing North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test site, on Jan. 6, 2016.

U.N. vows action against North Korea; White House doubts nuclear test claims

June 25, 2019 at 2:55 a.m.

North Korea's claim that it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday elicited an angry if familiar chorus of condemnation around the world. But Washington and the international community...

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...

Tanks hold waste; material from 14,000 flushes can be held here until it is removed via sanitation truck.

World Toilet Day: China aims to bring the WC closer to the Web

May 17, 2019 at 8:10 p.m.

Want to do more business while doing your, ahem, business? China is here to help. "Innovation" is the buzzword of the moment in Beijing, with the government putting special emphasis...

China has announced that it will abolish the country's decades-old one-child policy and allow all couples to have two children.

Why is China ending its one-child policy? Key questions and answers

June 22, 2019 at 12:53 p.m.

China will abandon its one-child policy after 35 years and allow all couples to have two children, authorities announced Thursday as they unveiled the outlines of the country's next five-year...

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