Daigou, or “surrogate shoppers” in Chinese, are professional shoppers who buy luxury and everyday goods from abroad for customers in China. But their business is threatened by regulations and travel restrictions.

The city found 137 asymptomatic carriers that were linked to a factory via a 17-year-old girl.

A $1.8bn package that includes cruise missiles are the first offensive weapons Washington has provided to the island for four decades.

Even as WeChat, an all-in-one app with over a billion users in mainland China, continues to roll out new features and functions, its restrictions on content sharing have only grown tighter over the past few years.

In a rare public display of anger, hundreds of Chinese parents demonstrated in Beijing on Monday to demand a refund from a private tutoring company they feared would soon go out of business.

Covax is a global alliance aimed at fairly distributing coronavirus vaccines when they become available. China joined the scheme in early October, but Russia and the US have refused to participate.

Countries including Canada and the US have pledged to let in Hong Kong pro-democracy activists as political refugees, but Beijing says such policies encourage violent protests.

A new rule in China means Muslims who want to visit Mecca must go on government-approved trips, further tightening rules that had already made individual trips to the haj near-impossible.

The Vatican is working with Beijing to try and strike a deal that would mark a significant diplomatic turning point, but some Catholics are not happy.

Mysterious seed packages postmarked from China have fueled speculations in America, but experts say they are likely part of a scheme used by merchants to trick the algorithms of shopping websites.