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This is not your average cultural exchange. There are no obscure acrobatic troupes and no awkward high school students. Yo-Yo Ma will play the cello. Alice Waters will cook. Joel [...]

KINMEN, Taiwan -- Burrowing just a few feet beneath the surface of this island in the Taiwan Strait turns up remnants of what was once the most militarized zone on [...]

TWO THOUSAND miles away from Yunnan and its sour papaya fish stews, Wang Li has driven half an hour with her family to Yunteng Shifu, which she considers the most [...]

BEIJING -- This month China's great masses are being mobilized by their leaders for an unusual purpose. Employees at state-owned companies and at all levels of government are joining students [...]

In the days after a bus traveling from a Connecticut casino crashed last month in the Bronx, the bodies of 14 victims were laid to rest. But the body of [...]

A look at notable restaurants that are worth a visit in four Asian cities. Beijing Wistaria Bridge Dining in Beijing often feels like participatory performance art: spacey and surly waiters, [...]

BEIJING -- The photograph is so graphic that it appears cartoonish at first glance. A man lies on a road with his eyes closed, blood streaming from his half-open mouth, [...]

BEIJING -- The photograph is so graphic that it appears cartoonish at first glance. A man lies on a road with his eyes closed, blood streaming from his half-open mouth, [...]

BEIJING -- China had captivated the imagination of Paul Cabo for as long as he could remember. Maybe it started with the documentaries he saw as a child about the [...]

BEIJING -- A dispute between China and the United States over Beijing's subsidies to clean energy industries escalated on Sunday when a senior Chinese economic official warned that Washington ''cannot [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED BEIJING -- When viewers tuned into China's most popular dating show this spring, they saw beautiful women, brutal rejections and plenty of money worshiping, as when a female [...]

BEIJING -- Two lawyers who represented a follower of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement have had their licenses permanently revoked, a move that prevents them from ever practicing law [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED BEIJING -- Grant Xia had the misfortune of trying to take up violin as an amateur during the collective madness of the Cultural Revolution. Chinese officials banned classical [...]

BEIJING -- The local authorities in northeastern China recently took control of a 10-year-old zoo where 11 rare Siberian tigers starved to death, and they are sending experts to try [...]

BEIJING -- A zoo where 11 rare Siberian tigers recently starved to death is fast becoming a symbol of the mistreatment of animals in China, with allegations of misspent subsidies, [...]

Guo Shuofeng, a 10-year-old fourth grader, is serious about baseball. Since joining his school team two years ago, he spends more than 20 hours a week during the season at [...]

It was the height of the Cultural Revolution, but in the heart of China's capital, in range of the prying eyes of foreign embassies, young Beijingers had embraced the tenets [...]

The top Communist official in Urumqi in western China was dismissed on Saturday as a large deployment of the military police appeared to have brought a measure of peace to […]

At least 5 people have been killed and 14 wounded during days of protests by ethnic Han demanding a government clampdown on Uighurs in the capital of the restive western […]

Thousands of Han Chinese protesters swarmed around government buildings in the capital of the restive Xinjiang region on Thursday to demand a crackdown on Uighurs after rumors spread that they […]