They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged. Goodbyes, on the other hand, were long understood as a behavior that only humans ...

An adult male Amur tiger walks in the snow of Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve in the Russian Far East.

President Xi Jinping mobilized the government to impose strict ideological conformity and loyalty to him and the Chinese ...

September 16, 2025 — Writer and analyst Dan Wang discusses his new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (W. W. Norton, August 2025), with Julian Gewirtz, a former senior official in ...

China’s economic growth didn’t benefit Hu Anyan – but his exceptional literary talent did. His book about struggling to ...

U.S. intelligence analysts say that Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has a remarkable level of fear. He has carried out mass purges, and surprised many by removing his top general.

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

Alas, China’s opacity is long-dated. It could well be decades before archives from Mr Xi’s rule are opened, if ever. Visual ...

Sagimet Biosciences dropped 9% after Ascletis Pharma’s Phase 3 Denifanstat safety data focused on tolerability, not new efficacy, spurring investor caution. SGMT’s Denifanstat, a first-in-class FASN ...

Researchers studying the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips have identified what they describe as the earliest known specialized material ...

The Indian spice box is full of flavourful elements which have strong aroma and are considered to have medicinal properties too. While the majority spices are not very photogenic, but, there is one ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA | Xinhua | In July 2025, braving Typhoon Co-may’s gales, a planeload of 20 Zhejiang Normal ...