Some people love to complain about the toilet situation in China. While it is true that many of the toilets outside first-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai are smelly at best and look like a ...

Many Chinese cities, including the capital Beijing, mandate that Chinese business owners provide free toilet access to non-customers during opening hours.

Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia is engulfed in a gigantic civil war. Lenin and the Reds hope to forge a new Soviet ...

Ten years ago, you would be forgiven for assuming the snowballing climate crisis was low-down on China’s priority list. Accounting for approximately 11.9 billion metric tonnes of emissions in ...

The streets of Beijing have changed dramatically within just a few years. The noisy, smelly thrum of traffic has been replaced by an unusual quiet for a megacity. Roads course with a stream of ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping take part in an official welcoming ceremony for delegations' heads at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, 23 October 2024.

Hong Kong stocks rise even as Trump threatens China with tariffs on TikTok deal US president delays TikTok ban by 75 days and threatens China with tariffs if Beijing does not approve a deal ...

HONG KONG — The Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has rattled markets with claims that its latest AI model, R1, performs on a par with those of OpenAI, despite using less advanced ...

China and India have agreed to resume direct commercial flights for the first time in five years, in the latest sign of warming relations between the world’s two most populous countries.

Then in late 2022, OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT took the world by surprise—and caught China flat-footed. At the time, leading Chinese technology companies were still reeling from an 18-month ...

China’s vast exports in 2024 exceeded its imports on a scale seldom seen anywhere except during or immediately after the two world wars. By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, who began covering ...