A Philippine correspondent has died after being shot Wednesday, a press advocacy group said, becoming the latest in a long line of journalists killed in the country.
The archipelago nation is one of the most dangerous places in the world...
Several regions in China have extended maternity leave by at least 30 days, in the latest attempt to encourage child-rearing as the country faces a demographic crisis fuelled by a record-low birth rate.
The changes follow the relaxation of strict...
US-listed Chinese microblogging platform Weibo is seeking to raise up to $547 million in a share offer in Hong Kong, documents showed Monday, the latest China tech company to list closer to home as tensions with the United States...
Two-year-old Haoyang has likely just months to live -- but the only medicine that can help his rare genetic condition is not found anywhere in China and closed borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic mean he cannot travel for...
By Patrick BAERT
Chinese President Xi Jinping, the uncontested leader of the world's most populous nation, heads a pivotal plenary of the ruling party's top figures next week that will set the tone for his bid for long-term rule.From Monday...
American Heather Mack, convicted as a pregnant teenager of helping to kill her mother at a luxury hotel in Bali, was deported Tuesday from Indonesia along with her now six-year-old daughter, immigration officials said.
Mack, 25, was flown back to...
US-China - Beijing said Thursday it opposed military ties between Washington and Taiwan, after President Tsai Ing-wen confirmed a small number of US troops are present on the island.
Authoritarian China regards self-ruled Taiwan as its own territory and has...
By Francesco FONTEMAGGI
Tensions have soared in recent weeks over Taiwan, the self-governing democracy claimed by China -- and allied with the United States. How far the tensions will accelerate -- and what the US response will be -- is...
As tensions spike between mainland Taiwan-China, here are key dates in decades of fraught relations:
Taiwan-China relations - 1949 separation
Mao Zedong's communists take power in Beijing in October 1949 after defeating Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang (KMT) nationalists in a civil war.
The...
Taiwan will not bow to pressure by Beijing and will defend its democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen said Sunday on China-Taiwan Conflict, following a spike in incursions by Chinese warplanes into its air defence zone.
Self-governed Taiwan's 23...
