Rob Schmitz
Human Rights Watch says 19 percent of job advertisements in 2018 were designated “men only.” Meanwhile, several tech companies feature young female employees in ads to attract male counterparts.
A new proposed curriculum for Hong Kong schools is missing key parts of modern Chinese history. The struggle over education is the latest battle with China over how the city is governed.
Xinjiang has nearly 20,000 glaciers, half of China’s total. They’re all receding at a record pace — and will continue to melt, some scientists warn, even if global temperatures stop rising.
In China, the song of summer is by a boy band who cleverly promotes communist values to a fanbase that is mostly composed of kids in rural cities.
It’s the world’s biggest coral reef system, home to some 400 types of coral. In the past 18 months, rising ocean temperatures helped cause the single greatest loss of coral ever recorded there.
As China celebrates the 20th anniversary of Great Britain’s handover of Hong Kong to Chinese control, it can celebrate another type of takeover: the city’s financial sector.
Republican senators are working on revisions to their health care plan. Also, Hong Kong is marking 20 years under Chinese rule, and rapper Jay Z has a new album.
China has had a complicated history with golf. At one time, the country seemed golf crazy, but it became synonymous with corrupt officials. Once again it is in the crosshairs of China’s government.
From Dandong, across the Yalu River from North Korea, middle-class Chinese tourists can buy North Korean cigarettes and souvenirs, and gaze through binoculars at North Korean farmers plowing fields.
By early next year, Beijing will require automakers in China to ensure that at least 8 percent of all vehicles they manufacture are electric.
North Korea launched a failed missile test. Turkish voters granted the president sweeping new powers. Authorities in Cleveland search for a man who they say posted a video of a murder on Facebook.
The Year of the Rooster begins Saturday, and hundreds of millions have departed to celebrate with family. “All the outsiders have left for home,” says 85-year-old grandmother Yuan Suizhen.
The app gathers personal data and gives residents a rating. A good score ensures discounts. A bad score may lead to problems. It’s part of China’s effort to create nationwide social credit system.
Mongolian goats produce the world’s highest quality cashmere wool, and international demand has soared. There’s a problem, though. These goats are turning the country into an ecological wasteland.
The sparsely populated nation of nomadic herders rode China’s booming economy by supplying it with coal. But as China’s economy slows and commodity prices drop, Mongolia’s economy is crashing.
Recently purchased by Chinese tech tycoon Jack Ma, the South China Morning Post, one of Hong Kong’s premier newspapers, seems to be under pressure from mainland China, just like the city it serves.
Xi Jinping is among 8 of China’s top officials whose families own shell companies to hide their money.
358 million Chinese paid for goods over their phones last year. Apple Pay faces stiff competition in the world’s second-largest economy.