Society

Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, had won most of the 491 seats contested in the election, with results still trickling in.

The corruption campaign has finally spread to every province in the country.

Members of this generation were born after Mao's death, and when Deng Xiaoping took power and opened up China’s economy for reform.

Online shopping and entertainment fused into a consumerist juggernaut.

“Double 11 is a really big part of my calendar.”

“I had this great American dream that got broken.”

Last year 27,000 merchants joined and Alibaba’s sites grossed £6.1b.

Their disappearance has alarmed the cultural community in a city already fearful of Beijing's growing encroachment.

On Sunday pollution readings were about 50 times higher than that considered safe by the World Health Organization.

Li Dongpu, CEO and co-founder of car wash startup Wo Ai Xiche, has disappeared

Land seizures, driven by soaring prices and a push for urban expansion, have been a major source of popular discontent in China, often resulting in violent stand-offs between officials and the public.

For the past eight years, the Chinese government has showered its former enemies in Taiwan with economic gifts.

Despite the recent economic slowdown in China, the country's film market is growing even faster than anticipated.

China and the United States are the world's biggest polluters, but their residents are among the least concerned about the harms of climate change.

The Asian trilateral no one talks about is seeing some interesting new developments.

This is the first truly innovative drug manufactured in China that passes the audits of FDA and it is about to enter the NDA progress.

China will push the study of Mandarin and the "blending" of different races as part of a new stability push in the troubled far western region of Xinjiang.

“I felt winded. My stomach dropped. My eyebrows raised. I managed a small chuckle. Talk about feeling a mix of emotions.”

For decades, China has been engaged in a building boom of a scale that is hard to wrap your mind around.

China has moved forward with a new film industry law intended to boost the sector and help Chinese companies compete internationally.

In certain respects, a national credit system of some kind is long overdue in China.

Marvel's "mighty" superhero Ant-Man continued to punch above its weight at the Chinese box office, winning a second consecutive week.

China is losing interest in learning English, sending its proficiency in the global language of business falling ten places in a worldwide ranking.

We’re in Beijing — no, Beiping — Dec. 10, 1979.

Liu Lizhu was not aware her shy, 15-year-old son had been bullied at school until he ended up in hospital with a ruptured spleen.

Couples must continue to obey the country's one-child policy until the law changes in March.

The abandonment of the one-child policy in China is a momentous change.

One night last spring, two veteran photojournalists working in Beijing came up with an interesting idea.

Chinese officials will be able to impose a prison sentence of up to seven years on a person convicted of creating and spreading “false information” online.

China has reportedly dropped its long-standing one-child policy, which was first enacted decades ago in an effort to curb overpopulation.The current population rests at around 1.4 billion after having the policy in place for over 35 years. Only time...

Economists will be watching to see whether it sets ambitious or moderate growth targets.

China’s Communist Party brought to an end the decades-old “one child” policy.

Intrepid urbexers are wandering through the industrial wastelands of China.

It was to be my first parents meeting at Zhoushan’s most elite high school.

Women who smoke, drink and dress provocatively are more likely to be raped.

"I think that my fate cannot be separated from literature."

Hong Kong is home to the happiest people in Greater China, closely followed by Taiwan, according to Tencent.

Wait for some evidence before assuming that only bad can come from good relations.

The large gap in private wealth has limited significance.

"If you wanna know what China's gonna do, best pay attention to the shisanwu."

When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country’s economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies.

“No one is forcing anyone to accept ‘one wife, many husbands!’ ”

It was morning in the lakeside village of Luoshui here in southwestern China.

"If China is developing on their side of the territory, we should develop on our side."

Mark Zuckerberg knows how to court Chinese users.

While political and security matters dominated headlines, Xi’s U.S. trip was actually driven by economics.

Under Mao, China promoted socialist equality for women, but the market-reform era has left many commodified in a country where mistress can be a career choice.

China's transformation from an agrarian economy remains a work in progress.