Propaganda Campaign Grows in North Korea as Kim Jong Un Consolidates Power
Wednesday’s announcement, combined with a pervasive propaganda push, suggests that the new leader is firmly in control
Wednesday’s announcement, combined with a pervasive propaganda push, suggests that the new leader is firmly in control
Will the former Chelsea star help turn Chinese soccer around?
A low-key strike in the Chinese boom city of Shenzhen won a number of victories, including the right to have a worker representative elected into China’s state-run labor unions. That set the stage for a historic, bottom-up …
After days of protests, a city in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has relented and decided to halt construction of a molybdenum and copper plant. Thousands of demonstrators in Shifang, a city of about a half-million …
Police in central China say Li Wangyang killed himself. But family and friends suspect he was murdered, and 800 km away in Hong Kong, activists are calling for an investigation
Liu Yang will be in orbit with two other astronauts for nearly two weeks.
Beijing faces growing rivalries with its Pacific neighbors, but in Central Asia it finds a warmer welcome
The widening gap between China’s rich and poor is turning ever more numbers of ordinary citizens into social activists. To maintain stability, the government must address the root causes of growing protests, not just suppress them
Google has begun warning some users of its Gmail service that their accounts may have been targets of “state-sponsored attacks.” An announcement on Google’s Online Security blog doesn’t detail who the Internet giant suspects of …
Since 2008, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing has issued hourly pollution readings of small airborne particles known as PM 2.5 on the Twitter feed @beijingair, a service has since spread to U.S. consulates in Guangzhou and Shanghai. …
In the years immediately following 1989, the anniversary of the deadly June 4 crackdown on demonstrators in Beijing was marked by smaller memorial protests. At universities in the northwest of the city, students would distribute …
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta filled in some details of the U.S. military‘s strategic ‘pivot’ to Asia, telling the Shangri-La Security Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday that the U.S. Navy will shift so that by 2020 the majority …
Like many tech-savvy people in China, Kai-Fu Lee spent some time Friday tinkering with Google’s new feature, which allows users to see in advance which search terms might trigger a block from the mainland’s system of online …