O VER THE past decade, as Chinese governance has become more politicised and a fear of punishment has taken hold, local officials have changed the way they do things. Many are hol ...

These are some of the problems that doctors have encountered in China’s public hospitals. They have been speaking out in recent weeks, questioning the quality of the country’s drugs and urging reform ...

But all is not well between China and Cambodia these days. China made no new loans to Cambodia last year. It has been especially reluctant to invest in the government’s flagship project, a canal which ...

W HEN SOUTH KOREA’S president, Yoon Suk Yeol, sent troops streaming into the country’s National Assembly on December 3rd, Lee Jae-myung turned on his livestream. Viewers watched on a shaky smartphone ...

As rich-world adoption has plummeted, demand for surrogacy has grown. It has also been fuelled by rising infertility, an increase in the acceptability of singles and gay couples choosing to have ...

On January 21st, a day after his inauguration, his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, hosted a Quad foreign ministers’ meeting ...

In the early 2000s, the complaints were similar...We missed that underneath the surface many things were changing,” says Jens ...

Most people go to the grocery store for food. Behavioral economist Shijun Gao goes for research. Gao recently joined the university's Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusinesss.

If anything, 2024 taught us to expect the unbelievable, but what else should we expect from this year?

China is President Donald Trump's prime target for a trade war — again. But China already put its boxing gloves on. In his ...

While jobs and inflation top consumer concerns in 2025, business leaders are scrutinizing what tariffs may mean for textiles ...

Trump calls tariffs America's "big power over China," but analysts say Beijing may be better prepared than ever to engage in ...