The Japanese city is “beautifying” itself ahead of hosting the World Expo — not by planting flowers, but by banning cigarettes.

OSAKA -- Osaka's Chinese population has almost doubled over the past decade, with a growing number of affluent homebuyers moving to the city since the pandemic. Neighborhoods of tightly packed ...

Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka has been left lamenting yet another abdominal issue as her promising Australian Open campaign came to a sad end.

On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods and threatened to renew the trade war with China that he launched during his first term.

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China's Lunar New Year travel period, known as Chunyun in Chinese, is the world's largest annual migration of people that will see up to 9 billion domestic trips over a 40-day period. While the majority of travel takes place by road, air travel is still a significant part of the experience.

Data published by China’s General Administration of Customs website last week underscores this reality: China exported $178 billion worth of goods to Africa but imported only $116 billion, primarily in raw materials. This leaves Africa with a trade deficit of nearly $62 billion.

Scientists in China have manipulated embryonic stem cells to create laboratory mice with two male parents that managed to live to adulthood – though with significant developmental abnormalities – in what they are calling a noteworthy achievement in mammalian genetic engineering.

The billionaire behind Tesla has significant business interests in China and has previously described himself as “kind of pro-China”. He could be at odds with a number of China hawks in the second Trump administration, and may even be labelled a national security risk due to his connections to the second-largest economy in the world.

Department store sales in Japan in 2024 totaled 5.75 trillion yen, surpassing the pre-coronavirus pandemic levels of 2019 amid inbound tourism boom, data by an industry body showed Friday. Sales on a same-store basis increased 6.

Japan is known as the 'Land of the Rising Sun.' The reason is due to its location, which is to the east of the Asian continent.

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