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A mudslide in the city of Xi’an has left at least 21 people dead, and rescuers are continuing to search for at least six more believed missing. Officials say about 900 homes were left without power. The mudslide follows a summer of unusually high rainfall as China struggles with the impact of typhoons Doksuri and Khanun in recent weeks

Officials say 900 homes in Xi’an were left without power in disaster that struck after unusually high rainfall and typhoons
A mudslide in China’s north-western city of Xi’an has killed 21 people, with six still missing, officials said on Sunday.
The city’s emergency management authority released an update on the number of casualties from Friday’s disaster as China grappled with unusually high summer rainfall.

Asian American students were 28% less likely to get into a subset of top colleges than similarly qualified white Americans, researchers find.

Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing’s information war against its neighbour
Ariel Lo spends a couple of hours most weeks sharing anime art and memes on Chinese apps, often chatting with friends in China in a Mandarin slightly different from the one she uses at home in Taiwan.
“People use English on Instagram, and for Chinese apps they use Chinese phrases. If I am talking to friends in China, I would use them,” Lo said as she picked up a bubble tea at a street market in central Taichung city.

China’s paramount leader, like his Russian counterpart, is making a fine mess of his country’s economy and world standing
It must be tough, being a dictator, when your diktats are ignored, thwarted and scorned. Vladimir Putin is a sad case in point. He ordered the glorious reintegration of Ukraine into his imaginary Russian empire. What he got was an existential crisis that he couldn’t control.
China’s president, Xi Jinping, is another paramount leader with dictatorship issues. Xi presumes to exercise supreme control, channelling Mao Zedong like a card-carrying Communist party Zeus – yet repeatedly messes up. Xi’s signature tune could be the chorus to Moby’s Extreme Ways: “Then it fell apart ... Like it always does.”

Taiwan’s vice president has left on a trip to Paraguay to reinforce relations with his government’s last diplomatic partner in South America at a time when China is stepping up efforts to isolate the ...

Day by day, the People’s Liberation Army is turning up the pressure, deploying an ever-wider array of planes and ships.

China was expected to roar back into life after Covid, but its weak rebound has shocked analysts
When two core indicators of Chinese inflation turned negative this week, alarm bells rang as the world’s second-largest economy started sliding into . According to Joe Biden, China’s economy is a “”.
The US president’s comments followed official data from China showing that July’s consumer prices index fell by 0.3% compared with 2022, while the producer prices index fell by 4.4%. It is the first time that both figures have been negative since November 2020, when the global economy had all but juddered to a halt during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Oklahoma City's Asian District is booming in the metro's northwest side. Here's what to know about its annual market festival expanding to two days.

Forget registries — in Asia, it is common to give marrying couples envelopes of cash. But unwritten rules on how much to give depend on who you are and which superstitions you believe.

The sharply worded comments are the latest example of the president’s willingness to criticize China even as he tries to ease tensions.