Ju Wenjun, the newly crowned Women's World Blitz Chess Champion, believes the growing success of Chinese players on the global stage can inspire a new wave of chess enthusiasts in China. "I hope that ...

Under one of the few significant mandates of the controversial 2021 SAFE-T Act that was backed by both advocates for police reform and law enforcement, every police officer in Illinois as of New ...

Bianca Tse’s photographs could not exist in real life, but the image maker says they capture a distinct Hong Kong “flavor.” ...

Let women be what God intended, a helpmate for man, but with totally different duties and vocations.’ However, there was one woman determined to flout such societal norms: Lady Florence Boot. Such was ...

Local Chinese authorities have stepped up efforts to encourage women to consider having more children, including through controversial cold-calling campaigns.

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A two-tier system that has long made workers leave children behind in villages is cutting into birthrates.

Beijing will impose visa restrictions on “US personnel who have behaved poorly on Hong Kong-related issues” in response to Washington’s threats to sanction officials responsible for ...

Rachel Reeves hosted a Downing Street bash for MPs, associates and children this week – part of her charm offensive to reassure colleagues and media that she is an accessible figure and not, as one ...

(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese national was arrested Thursday on charges of acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed ...

Wall Street is betting the US dollar will make further ... perceptions about US leverage over China”, with buy-in from Beijing far from secured. “The secret sauce of the Plaza Accord was ...

Women walk past by a display showing the Shanghai stock market index outside a brokerage in Beijing, Wednesday ... cited in the Wall Street Journal, its economists said the falling yield on ...