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In the eras before air-conditioning, southern China's skywells played a key role in keeping people's homes cool. Could they do it again today? Ru Ling loves spending time in skywells. To her, these courtyards of old Chinese houses are the perf...
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Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after completing a six-month mission aboard China's space station. They left for space on 5 June to oversee the final construction stage of the Tiangong space station, which was completed in...
Chinese internet giants including Alibaba, Tiktok-owner ByteDance and Tencent have shared details of their algorithms with China's regulators for the first time. Algorithms decide what users see and the order they see it in - and are critic...
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US and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska. Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries "to attack China&...
The attacker who pushed Olivia Munn's friend’s mother to the ground on a New York street has been arrested following the actress' plea....
These bowls, called linglong porcelain, used to be everywhere in the West. And they all come from this one town in China....
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The Chinese fintech titan Ant Group—co-founded by Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma—is set to go public in what could be one of the largest listings ever. WSJ explains how Ant's backbone service, Alipay, has revolutionized payments and investin...
The suspension of a US university professor has ignited a debate over the use of a seemingly innocuous Chinese word. Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California (USC) was telling students in a communications lecture last m...
A rare Chinese wine ewer which was rediscovered in a lockdown garage clear-out could sell for 100,000. The centuries-old object, which resembles a teapot, is owned by a Derbyshire construction worker but may have belonged to an ...
"We may be banning TikTok," President Trump told reporters, saying an announcement could come as soon as this weekend. He added there were other options - but how might a ban work? One obvious starting place would be to order Appl...
China's economy grew 3.2% in the second quarter following a record slump. The world's second biggest economy saw a sharp decline in the first three months of the year during coronavirus lockdowns. But figures released on Wednesday show Chin...
Elyse Isopo, a nurse practitioner in the intensive care unit at North Shore University Hospital in New York, takes us through a day in her life as she treats coronavirus patients. She starts and ends each day by taking her temperature before caring f...
Mounting debts have hit Chinese companies struggling to pay workers and suppliers amid the coronavirus outbreak. President Xi Xinping said on Sunday that China faces a "big test" to combat the virus. The government has asked banks...
China has "removed" several senior officials over their handling of the coronavirus outbreak - as the death toll passed 1,000. The party secretary for the Hubei Health Commission, and the head of the commission, were among those wh...
Police have urged everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives. What is it and how does it work? Kicked. Converged. Soccer. These three randomly chosen words saved Jess Tinsley and her friends after they go...