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The street outside Beijing’s 13 Club bears little trace of the revellers who once packed the building. There are no cigarette butts in the cracks of the pavement, nor any footprints left by…

HO CHI MINH CITY/BANGKOK — During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdowns in Vietnam last year, blogger Bui Van Thuan took to Facebook to criticize a government plan to use…

Issued on: 01/11/2022 - 14:04 Iranians staged new protest actions to denounce the country’s theocratic regime in defiance of…

A massive scandal worth tens of billions of yuan is rocking the critical rural banking sector in China. Authorities blame a "criminal gang" for illegally siphoning off…

Netflix execs are likely waking up with a weird feeling. Because while you'd think they'd wake up on a happy high now that Russian Doll season 2 is finally here, yesterday's news was the…

“Guiding” food delivery platforms to lower their service charges would lower restaurant operating costs, the National Development and Reform Commission said. It also said it would “ask” the…

China’s “common prosperity” drive is not a pursuit of egalitarianism, President Xi Jinping said in a rare international defence of the policy that rattled markets from Hong Kong to…

Issued on: 17/12/2021 - 07:51 In the 10 years since Kim Jong Un came to power, North Korea has cracked down on people trying to get…

Mao Zedong, when he was close to death in the mid-1970s, told those around him that he regarded his two greatest achievements as establishing a unified country in 1949, and launching the…