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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China employed a record 125 aircraft, as well as its Liaoning aircraft carrier and ships, in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday, [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Shanghai's airports were canceling hundreds of flights Sunday as they brace for impact from Typhoon Bebinca, which is due to make landfall in the early hours of [...]

BEIJING (AP) — Starting next year, China will raise its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world's major economies, in an effort to address […]

BANGKOK (AP) — The decision by New York prosecutors to https://apnews.com/article/former-hochul-aide-arrested-new-york-c588a95e87b853ca3d23b36aae4c87cd this week with acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government has raised concerns about China's efforts to [...]

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — The competition started in second grade for DJ Wang’s son. Eight-year-old William was enrolled https://apnews.com/article/china-vocational-school-math-competition-8506fe6ce1a7bca6a5aea54da8de265c in Wuhan, a provincial capital in central China. While kindergarten […]

BANGKOK (AP) — China called on Tuesday for more countries to endorse its peace plan for Ukraine, after a round of diplomacy with Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa to support [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Beijing has ruled against an unmarried https://apnews.com/hub/china woman's right to freeze her eggs, ending a https://apnews.com/article/china-woman-freeze-eggs-court-b78d4b9fe274847a83f6a077f5317f2c that lasted six years and drew national attention. [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — China sanctioned a U.S congressman Wednesday for “frequently interfering” in China's domestic affairs, in its latest effort to express displeasure with U.S. politicians who have criticized China's […]

BEIJING (AP) — Chen Yulu never thought her home province of Hunan had any culture that she would be proud of, much less become an ambassador of. But these days, […]

BANGKOK (AP) — China will ban the export of all unregulated civilian drones that can be used for military purposes or in terrorist activities and restrict certain drone features as […]

In consecutive days this week, China brokered a https://apnews.com/article/china-palestinians-hamas-fatah-declaration-4bef2615307b656b99cb0e18f6b6d796 and https://apnews.com/article/china-ukraine-russia-war-kuleba-wang-4347271aea8c2493285c9aa761acb518 at a moment when pressure is mounting on the country to negotiate an end to the grinding war there. [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Images of the moment have already been https://apnews.com/article/trump-photo-flag-iconic-bullet-f668b7dcc7b365a319a5daaac582775d and papered many corners of the internet — former President Donald Trump, ear bleeding, with his right hand clenched [...]

BEIJING (AP) — China's ruling Communist Party started a four-day meeting Monday that is expected to lay out a strategy for self-sufficient economic growth in an era of heightened national [...]

HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — When a 7.4-magnitude https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-earthquake-tsunami-f086aac0c3082036d1ca77c01828fb28 in April, it took about 30 minutes for the region’s most ubiquitous charity to set up an emergency response center. Tzu Chi, [...]

HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — The Buddhist teacher who founded what is now a global charity and religion with a $283 million operating budget grew up at a time when women [...]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — China's premier agreed Monday to revive three-way cooperation with South Korea and Japan in the face of shared challenges, but issued a veiled rebuke against [...]

JINAN, China (AP) — Shi Mei and her husband earn a decent enough living by growing corn and millet on their small farm in eastern China's Shandong province. In 2021, [...]

BEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin focused on trade and cultural exchanges Friday on https://apnews.com/article/china-russia-putin-beijing-xi-3212ef85d8318cf853f956173f3a682a that started with bonhomie in Beijing and a summit with China's leader Xi Jinping [...]

BEIJING (AP) — Unable to buy a train ticket, or even see a doctor at a hospital, a Chinese pastor found that even after his release from prison, he is [...]

BEIJING (AP) — Ten years on, the families of Chinese passengers who disappeared on board https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-mh370-missing-plane-what-to-know-91b69d63a6bc57d6ad2bf3c1eaf6e4ed still are searching for answers. On Friday, a few dozen relatives of the passengers [...]

BEIJING (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/china-economy-congress-qiang-jinping-1fc37c644ca06a4ab1133b26c5a7b146 on Tuesday announced a 7.2% increase in its defense budget, which is already the world’s second-highest behind the United States at 1.6 trillion yuan ($222 billion), [...]

BEIJING (AP) — China's Premier Li Qiang promoted an image of confidence as he announced https://apnews.com/article/china-economy-congress-qiang-jinping-1fc37c644ca06a4ab1133b26c5a7b146 for the world's second largest economy, at one of the country's most important political [...]

SHANGHAI (AP) — Two prominent Chinese bloggers in exile said police were investigating their millions of followers on international social media platforms, in an escalation of Beijing’s attempts to clamp [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — China is stepping up patrols in the waters off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, days after https://apnews.com/article/china-taiwan-kinmen-fishermen-deaths-bb1136fda2bdc3cd5e696692d24e070d while being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard, which [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by Taiwan's Coast Guard off the coast of Taiwan's Kinmen archipelago, the coast guard said Wednesday while accusing them [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese American rapper Bohan Phoenix has straddled both countries in his career. Working with Chinese rappers like the popular Higher Brothers, he has always interspersed English song [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rumors about vote fraud started swirling as the ballots in Taiwan’s closely watched presidential election were tallied on Jan. 13. There were baseless claims that people [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — US and Chinese officials have completed the third meeting of a working group established to cooperate on financial issues, in a step that continues the trend set [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — A fire broke out in dorms at a boarding school for elementary students in central Henan province, and 13 students died in the blaze, Chinese state media [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — China and the Philippines said they have agreed to work on lowering tensions after a year of public and tense confrontations in the South China Sea between [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Shih Ming-teh, a democracy activist who helped lead Taiwan from authoritarianism to democracy and a former chairman of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, died on Monday, his [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Ding Zhongfu was awakened by loud pounding on his door. Five policemen greeted Ding, an elder in a Chinese church. The officers pinned him to the wall [...]

LONDON (AP) — When her husband fled China in 2019 to escape a police crackdown on dissidents, Lu Lina thought she and their young son could soon join him in [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — China is ramping up a crackdown on online scams operated by criminal syndicates in border areas of military-ruled Myanmar in an effort that has included a shootout, [...]

Ahead of the https://apnews.com/article/us-china-military-relations-339980a0d494bcde92905411838808a4 on Wednesday between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Chinese state media have taken a new tone toward the U.S. with less negative [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Wu Zunyou, an epidemiologist who helped drive the country's strict zero-COVID measures in China that suspended access to cities and confined millions to their homes, died on [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — China said the United States is the “biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability” in the world in a scathing response Wednesday to a Pentagon report on [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Senior Chinese officials greeted California Gov. Gavin Newsom with smiles and warm words on Wednesday in a display of friendliness that stands in sharp contrast to the [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Zhang Hongliang, a former restaurant manager in central China, took various gigs in and outside China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 [...]

BANGKOK (AP) — Foxconn, a Fortune 500 company known globally for making Apple iPhones, was recently subjected to searches by Chinese tax authorities, state media reported Sunday. Foxconn, a https://apnews.com/hub/taiwan [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China sent navy ships and a large group of warplanes, including fighter jets and bombers, toward Taiwan over two days, the island’s defense ministry said on [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and [...]

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese exports grew 8.5% in April, showing more unexpected strength despite weakening global demand, customs data showed Tuesday. Exports grew to $295.4 billion compared with a year [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A delegation of United States defense contractors and a former senior leader of the U.S. Marine Corps pledged the beginning of deeper cooperation with Taiwan on [...]

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese authorities were preparing Sunday to release a man who https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-journalists-ap-top-news-international-news-social-media-8455474af114e6b298cec8cd5da65b65 after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak, a relative and [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday afternoon in Shanghai after https://apnews.com/article/panda-memphis-zoo-china-ya-ya-67c6cb234d15281b8b4d73c541596109 in Tennessee, where she spent the past 20 years on loan. The popular panda's [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Officials in Beijing have released four women on bail who were arrested for joining rare nationwide protests in late November against China's tough anti-coronavirus policies, an [...]

HONG KONG (AP) — Police in Hong Kong filed murder charges against the former father-in-law and brother-in-law of a model and influencer whose body parts were found in a refrigerator [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The outgoing president of Paraguay, whose country is one of Taiwan's few remaining diplomatic allies, spoke of his admiration for the island democracy while on a [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday welcomed the former head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, who had warned the island could face an invasion from China [...]