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The Chinese-owned chain Luckin Coffee announced it was opening a its first location in the United States, to be located in Manhattan’s East Village between Broadway and East Eighth Street, in May of ...

Tributes paid to late British primatologist whose institute trained thousands of Chinese on protecting animals
Jane Goodall has been remembered as a “guiding light” in China, with hundreds of millions of people paying tribute online to the conservationist who .
The British primatologist and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute was well known in China, and her research and findings were ubiquitous in Chinese educational materials, which listed her among “women of achievement” in text books.

The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) will open its next exhibition, “How Can You Forget Me: Filipino American Stories,” Nov. 20 at the Nicholas F. and Eugenia Taubman Gallery in the ...

India's IndiGo airline said that it would restart direct flights between Kolkata and Guangzhou from 26 October.

Investigative journalist Emily Baker-White on the deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to Trump allies
Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a proposed deal to keep TikTok operating in the US. The $14bn deal, if finalised, would see the transfer of TikTok’s US operation from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to a consortium which includes the American billionaires Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder, and Rupert Murdoch, as well as two investment firms with known ties to the Trump administration.
“It’s owned by Americans, and very sophisticated Americans,” Trump said while signing the order. “This is going to be American-operated all the way.” His administration claimed the deal would meet the requirements of a security law that required ByteDance to sell its American operation or face a ban in the US, after years of concern about data security and the risks of Chinese influence.

In a major Ripple update, CEO David Schwartz has stepped down from his duties at the company, but will be staying on as an advisor after spending more than a decade at the company. He announced his ...

Beijing’s strategic bid to reduce prices is viewed as a commercial dispute, but Canberra could be drawn in if budget revenue takes a hit

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China, via a state-run enterprise, has reportedly banned its steel manufacturers from buying , amid a strategic bid by Beijing to reduce prices of the crucial steel-making commodity.
While it is a commercial dispute, the fight has wide-ranging political ramifications, given the threat to Australia’s biggest export, valued at more than $100bn a year, and the possibility Canberra is drawn deeper into the fight.

For example, I thought that most of the Chinese dishes that we consider to be American favorites were modified by Chinese chefs to fit American tastes and ingredients, but that’s not always the case.

Alarmingly, this threat is already apparent on Ukrainian battlefields. China now accounts for approximately 90 per cent of Russia’s imports of “high priority” dual-use goods, with Chinese ...

Pukpuk mutual defence treaty will establish Australia’s first new alliance since the Anzus agreement was signed in 1951

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Australia will elevate its relations with Papua New Guinea to the same level as the US and New Zealand, with set to be signed as soon as next week.
Delayed last month due to political complications within the PNG government, the new treaty won approval from prime minister James Marape’s cabinet ministers on Wednesday night.

Person who was thought to have received intelligence is understood to be Cai Qi, de facto chief of staff to Xi Jinping
British prosecutors suspected that China’s fifth most senior official was in receipt of intelligence from Westminster in a controversial and now-abandoned espionage case, the Guardian understands.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in April 2024 that a “senior member of the Chinese Communist party and a politburo member” had received “politically sensitive information” from two British researchers who were .

Country moves to deepen policing ties with China as Australia continues negotiations on Nakamal agreement, which was not signed last month as hoped
Vanuatu remains open to signing a wide-ranging deal with Australia but must assert its sovereignty and will not be subject to pressure or “bullying” from larger countries, the country’s internal affairs minister, Andrew Napuat, said.
Australia in Port Vila last month amid concerns from Vanuatu that it would block other countries providing infrastructure funding. Weeks later, Vanuatu said it planned to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deepen policing cooperation with China.