China

News Hour: A dust storm is choking a large swathe of northern China including the capital, Beijing, in yet another air quality crisis to affect the country. Official air quality readings have soared well above the...

News Hour: Twelve workers died following an explosion in a high-speed rail tunnel in southwestern China, state media said on Wednesday, after rescuers spent over 14 hours searching the rubble for survivors. The blast occurred after...

News Hour: China’s box office sales grew at their fastest pace in over a year in April, driven by the U.S. action movie “The Fate of the Furious”, the eighth instalment of the high-octane fast car...

News Hour: China’s all-girl “boy band”, FFC-Acrush, had more than 749,000 followers on social networking site Weibo even before any of their music was released. Sporting short bobs, loose T-shirts and barely there makeup, Acrush’s androgynous...

News Hour: China has deported a U.S. citizen who was convicted of espionage this week after being held without trial for two years, removing a source of friction between Washington and Beijing. Sandy Phan-Gillis was arrested...

News Hour: The Government of China has made its largest single donation to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) with US$34 million towards its emergency operations to support people who are at risk of famine...

News Hour: A Chinese court has convicted American businesswoman Sandy Phan-Gillis for spying and ordered her deportation. Phan-Gillis was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a court in Nanning, but it is...

News Hour: Netflix is to introduce original content in China in a licensing deal with local video streaming service iQiyi.com, the U.S. company said on Tuesday. Netflix has struggled to break into the Chinese market, where...

News Hour: China’s electric-car market is already the world’s biggest, but a government proposal to introduce “new energy” vehicle quotas for automakers is further charging it up. With the threat of the measure looming, major manufacturers...

News Hour: A new UN study reveals that Alipay and WeChat Pay enabled US$2.9 trillion in Chinese digital payments in 2016, representing a 20-fold increase in the past four years. The data shows that digital payments,...