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SHANGHAI: China on Tuesday (Oct 8) pulled NBA exhibition games from television screens as the league faced an escalating punishment campaign in ...

Hong Kong's under-fire leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said China intervening to end months of pro-democracy protests is an option following a particularly violent week of unrest that paralysed the city.The global network of Agence France-Presse covers 1

Hong Kong was rocked by fresh violence Sunday as tens of thousands hit the streets to defy a ban on face masks, sparking clashes with police, street fights and vandalism across the strife-torn city.

Hong Kong protesters defied a new law banning face masks, coming out in force Saturday in a continuation of demonstrations that have left the self-governing Chinese city-state nearly paralyzed, the Associated Press reported. Protests were smaller but stil

As China showed off its military might in an elaborate parade marking the country's 70th anniversary under Communist Party rule Tuesday, violent clashes erupted between pro-democracy demonstrators and security forces in Hong Kong in a direct challenge

Police shot a protester in Hong Kong Tuesday as officers employed live rounds in an effort to control escalating pro-democracy demonstrations in the city on the 70th anniversary of Communist rule in mainland China, according to NBC News . Hong Kong offici

China has displaced Russia as Ukraines largest trading partner, according to new data posted by the National Bank of Ukraine. In the first quarter of this ye

A Chinese government panel recently invited gun control activists from the United States, along with diplomats and human rights activists for a hearing in Beijing on gun violence in the U.S. In an article that appeared Wednesday on China's state-run Global Times, China's Standing Committee of the

The government of one of China’s top technology hubs is dispatching officials to 100 local corporations including e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the latest effort to exert greater influence over the country’s massive private sector.

Sky News host Alan Jones says Canberra “doesn’t know the difference” between Chinese ownership and investment when it comes to China. The broadcaster noted that China owns 29 per cent of Australian foreign-owned farmland and “a lot of this happened while Morrison was Treasurer”. “We love investment

Pro-democracy politicians hit out at the police for failing to arrest pro-China attackers in white T-shirts at the weekend.

The commentaries came a day after thousands of protesters joined a peaceful march to the US consulate in Hong Kong.

Over the weekend in Hong Kong, mostly peaceful demonstrators held a march to the U.S. Consulate, numbered in the hundreds of thousands, to get a message to President Trump and the United States. Here's more from AP: Thousands of demonstrators in Hong

Hong Kong police have fired rubber bullets at protesters who besieged a police station in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.The clashes came amid continuing defiance from demonstrators despite the government's promise to kill a proposed law that s

Chinese companies are giving shoppers the option to pay with a facial recognition system that asks them to do little more than smile into a camera to identify themselves.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Wednesday withdrew an extradition bill that trigg...

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Wednesday the government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations, bowing to one of the protesters' demands in the hope of ending the increasingly violent unrest.

China has said it could impose emergency rule on Hong Kong in its sternest warning since pro-democracy protests began thirteen weeks ago.

The French prosecutor says the Afghan man detained for a deadly knife attack was in a "psychotic state" and under the influence of drugs, and shows no signs of links ... Click to Continue

China's Chang'e-4 lunar rover has discovered an unusually colored, 'gel-like' substance during its exploration activities on the far side of the moon.