The national college entrance exam, or gaokao, got underway on Sunday with millions of Chinese students appearing for it, while their parents gathered outside examination venues in quiet support. Rather than being fretful and anxious,...
Although air conditioners across China are humming to life as the summer heat begins to climb, the folding fan that was once pushed to the margins of daily life is reappearing in subway cars, museum shops and tourist streets. Once...
President Xi Jinping will kick off a state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Monday, his first trip to the neighboring country in seven years and his first overseas visit this year. Xi, who is also general secretary of...
Tired of housework and wishing someone would take care of all the chores? If one company in Wuhan, Hubei province, has its way, all the daily domestic drudgery would soon be the responsibility of robot housekeepers that could become as common...
More than two decades after a photograph of five blonde foreign children entering a local primary school in Dongguan, Guangdong province, appeared on the front page of the Yangcheng Evening News, one of them has returned to the public...
