Tiger mauls grandmother to death at Beijing safari park
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...
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‘Barbaric,’ ‘cultural genocide’: GOP platform’s tough words rile China
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...
Rain doesn’t dampen the mood of opening day at Shanghai Disney
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...
Philippines presidential candidate draws comparisons to Trump
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...
Taiwan elects Tsai Ing-wen as first female president
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...
China stocks plunge to a halt after just 14 minutes of trading
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...
U.N. vows action against North Korea; White House doubts nuclear test claims
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...
China will expel journalist for criticizing Communist Party policies
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...
World Toilet Day: China aims to bring the WC closer to the Web
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...
Why is China ending its one-child policy? Key questions and answers
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...