From Jan 31 to Feb 3, the National Centre for the Performing Arts will premiere its original drama, Beijing Swift, the first ...

Iran’s past is admired precisely because it is mummified — culturally contained and politically non-threatening. This does ...

OP-ED. In an op-ed for Le Monde, the exiled actress, an icon of Iranian women's fight for freedom, responds for the first time to the ongoing massacres in Iran.

MANY people lose touch with their family or ancestral roots for one reason or another, particularly in the fast-paced urban ...

Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be gray zone pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret ...

On the 12th of February 1912 Puyi, China’s Last Emperor, abdicated. China now commenced into uncharted political territory: ...

Japan and the Philippines have signed a defense pact that will allow the tax-free provision of ammunition, fuel, food and ...

Yinxu - known as the last capital of the Shang - is one of China’s most important archaeological sites, famous for oracle bone inscriptions and monumental burials. The new pits add another layer: not ...

In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in ...

Born from alchemy and the search for immortality, early Chinese gunpowder ignited a revolution in weapons — from fire lances ...

Efforts to diversify rare earth supply chains are bringing new attention to war-ravaged Myanmar, where massive rare earth ...