During the 2017 "two sessions," while joining a deliberation with lawmakers from Sichuan, Xi spoke of his concern after seeing media reports that residents of Atulie'er, widely known as the "cliff ...

A memorable day was Feb. 25, 2021 when Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China had secured a "complete victory" in its fight against absolute poverty.

After China’s debt-fueled real estate bubble popped, vast housing developments across the country were left partially abandoned — including “Life in Venice," a sprawling residential complex perched on ...

Rows of farm courtyards, restored to retain their original appearance, have been transformed into distinctive workshops of intangible cultural heritage. They feature native Shanxi crafts such as black ...

China is home to about 489,000 administrative villages, along with millions of natural villages and settlements. In February ...

From Japan's Hashima Island to France's Oradour-sur-Glane, these moss-covered and dilapidated places house tragic and complicated histories.

In Nusa Tenggara Timur, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is ...

GANGTOK, India — Nearly four years ago, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Parliament she had big plans for India's border villages. "Border villages with sparse population, limited ...

On February 5, workers at BYD’s high-voltage electrical equipment factory in the Jixian Industrial Park of Xi’an’s High-tech Zone walked off the job in a collective strike against savage cuts to their ...

In some of the poorest regions on Earth, smartphones and internet access are luxuries. Instead, basic feature phones became the foundation of a financial revolution. Using simple text-based money ...

BYD shares fell by over 5.1% in early trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange after it reported a sales decline of over 30% in January, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. The world's largest EV maker sold ...