With summer just around the corner, Chinese travelers are flocking to parks, mountains, and flower festivals during the tomb-sweeping day holiday. The three-day break, traditionally a time to honor ...

China’s tax authorities have recovered nearly 900 million yuan ($124 million) in unpaid taxes after auditing 169 online influencers in 2024. At a press conference Tuesday marking the launch of China’s ...

When ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, Beijing university student Li Yiheng says he only downloaded it out of curiosity. But what began as a toy has evolved into an all-purpose academic tool — helping him ...

China’s 2015 Anti-Domestic Violence Law (ADVL) was a milestone for the country’s legal community. Even as recently as 2000, no law in China had even used the term “domestic violence.” The ADVL not ...

In the 2025 Oscar Best Picture winner “Anora,” a destitute sex worker seeks to escape her straitened circumstances by marrying into wealth, only to see her dreams crumble — an inversion of the classic ...

As job interviews go, few are as physically challenging as those for kanglou (“stairway”) porters in Guangzhou, in China’s southern Guangdong province. To prove their strength and agility, candidates ...

A botched demolition at a cement plant in central China’s Hunan province has been identified as the source of a toxic leak that contaminated a major river in mid-March, according to the results of an ...

Ye Qi gripped the steering wheel with both hands as the highway ahead began to shake and twist before his eyes. He quickly pulled over his car and watched as over the next 30 seconds the asphalt road ...

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