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American teacher Kim Lee has been hailed as a role model for domestic violence victims in China since 2011, when she initiated divorce proceedings against her celebrity husband in a landmark case that made legal history. 

But Lee’s status as a voice for abused women came under attack last week, when she said she had forgiven her ex-husband.

“My [ex] husband is a flawed person. His violent acts are beyond doubt, illegal and wrong,” she wrote in a long post in Chinese on the Twitter-like Weibo…

China’s growing economic strength is seen by most people as positive, but the country’s rise as a global superpower is not making it popular with neighbors in the Asia-Pacific, a survey released on Thursday showed.

The survey of nearly 39,000 people in 34 countries by the Pew Research Center also showed the world had an overwhelmingly negative view of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Over the past 70 years, China has transformed itself from an economic backwater to the world’s second-largest…

In China, surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition technology are often hailed as important tools for improving security while offering convenience. 

But as these devices become more pervasive, some Chinese people are questioning whether facial recognition comes with its own set of safety and privacy concerns.   

According to a survey published on Thursday, 74% of respondents said they would like to have a choice between traditional identification methods (like keycards) and…

Living abroad can be a life of romance, personal growth and exciting opportunities. Or it can be a nightmare of expensive rent, culture shock and loneliness. 

But if you are to take the plunge, Asian cities could be your best bets, according to a recent survey.

Four of the top five of the world’s best cities for expatriates to live are in Asia, according to the survey of more than 20,000 expatriates.

Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, topped the chart for the second year in a row.

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Authorities in a southern Chinese city have suspended plans to build a crematorium following two days of clashes between riot police and residents in scenes that drew comparisons to the continuing unrest in Hong Kong.

The clashes in Wenlou, which is about 60 miles north of Hong Kong, began on Thursday when hundreds of locals tried to march on the town’s government offices in protest against plans to build a crematorium on land they believed had been set aside for a park.

But police intervened…

Chinese astronomers have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way that current scientific theory says is too big to exist.

Scientists from the National Astronomical Observatory of China say the find, dubbed LB-1, has 70 times the mass of the sun, even though physics says that is impossible.

“We were so shocked we could not believe what we saw,” researcher Liu Jifeng said in Beijing on Thursday.

He said he and his colleagues consulted astronomers from around the world and after three years of…

The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the US Congress’ 150-odd other pieces of China-related legislation underscore elder statesman Henry Kissinger’s recent assertion that the US and China are “in the foothills” of a new cold war. Perhaps we’re even further up, above the tree line.

As recriminations beget more recriminations and new fronts in the ideological battle seem to open every week, Washington’s wannabe cold warriors need to pause and reassess.

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A small village on a hillside in central China is leading the way in addressing one of the great issues of the modern era – how to eliminate humanity's impact on the environment.

Only some 20 residents, all of them elderly, remain in the village of Liantang in Guiyang county, Hunan province. The rest have moved away over the years, seeking the opportunities and modern conveniences of urban life.

But one man has returned to the place where he was born and raised, determined to remake it as a…

Engineer Kuang Kaiming was assigned to a team developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology for a Shanghai start-up. The company went with two leading open-source software libraries, Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s Pytorch.

The decision to adopt US core technology over Chinese alternatives was telling of China’s weakness in basic AI infrastructure. 

Despite the country’s success in producing commercially successful AI companies, the open-source coding repositories used to build the…

Every four years, Hong Kong holds citywide elections to pick a group of officials who look after neighborhoods, dealing with things like run-down facilities or a wild boar infestation.

But the elections set to take place on Sunday, following more than five months of anti-government protests, will be about much more than community issues. 

The 2019 district council elections are widely seen as the first referendum of the protest movement. The political crisis has led to increasingly violent…