A well-known Chinese rights lawyer died suddenly in hospital of liver failure Monday, a source told Reuters, sparking suspicion over the death of someone who...
British toy retailer Hamleys opened its largest store in the world in Beijing on Saturday, just two days before Christmas as debate played out over whether...
In the modernist but faded headquarters of UNESCO, the U.N.'s cultural agency on Paris's elegant Left Bank, more than a few diplomats wandered the corridors...
As balconies bristle with tree branches and sunshine dapples the leaves of thousands of plants, two apartment buildings in the heart of Milan have almost...
The board of the U.N.’s cultural body Wednesday began vetting eight candidates, including one from Lebanon, vying to head an organization accused of bias in...
Inter Milan manager Luciano Spalletti singled out the outstanding performance of Ivan Perisic in his side’s 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich Thursday but...
Apple opened its first Southeast Asia store in Singapore Saturday, drawing hundreds of excited fans to the swanky two-story site in the city's upmarket...
Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author perennially pegged as a contender for the Nobel literature prize, has called for a fight against historical revisionism...
An court in eastern China has sentenced 23 people to jail of up to 15 years for smuggling refined fuel, state news agency Xinhua reported Friday
Japan said Thursday it has paid millions of dollars in UNESCO annual funding dues after holding back the payment over a World War II-era history row
U.S. fashion retailer Nordstrom was in hot water Sunday after placing a hoodie depicting a scene from the massacre in the Chinese city of Nanjing for sale on...
Japan has withheld dues for the U.N. cultural agency, saying it wants to make sure the organization functions properly, a gesture seen by local media as a...
Equipment at an oil refinery in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing caught fire and exploded Sunday, state media said, in the country's latest industrial...
Japan's new defense minister, known for her revisionist views of Japan's wartime actions, declined on Thursday to say whether Japan liberated or invaded Asian...
For student Wei Zexi, the lure of a miracle cure was hard to resist: He was dying from a rare cancer and a well-known Beijing hospital was offering treatment...
China ordered at least 255 Shanghai-based industrial facilities, including part of a major oil refinery operated by Sinopec Corp, to shut for 14 days to...
Chinese electronics retailer Suning Commerce Group Co. Ltd. is buying nearly 70 percent of Italian football club Inter Milan for 270 million euros ($307...
Barack Obama on Friday becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, site of the world's first atomic bombing, a gesture Washington and Tokyo...
The two Swiss pilots taking turns to fly a solar-powered airplane around the world said Sunday the endeavor is not only a demonstration of the importance of...
A fire caused by an explosion at a facility storing chemicals and fuel that rocked the Chinese city of Jingjiang was finally put out Saturday, 16 hours after...