Ivory prices soar in China on new demand: report
By JASON STRAZIUSO Street prices for illegal ivory are soaring in China, where newly wealthy middle and upper class citizens are buying carved ivory and whole tusks as a status…
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Taiwan, Hong Kong a challenge for China’s Xi
By RALPH JENNINGS and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN In this Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014 photo, police officers throw a pro-democracy protester on the main road outside government headquarters in Hong Kong as…
Chinese-built Ebola center dedicated in Liberia
By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH and CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY China, one of the first countries to send aid to battle Ebola in West Africa, ramped up the assistance significantly Tuesday by opening a…
White House condemns terror attack in China
China’s Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun, center, and Xinjiang Party Secretary Zhang Chunxian, second right, hold umbrellas as they visit the site of an explosion in Urumqi, northwestern China’s Xinjiang…
CHINA ANNOUNCES $1.6 BILLION AIR POLLUTION FUND
FILE – In this Dec. 6, 2013 file photo, people use escalators with skyscrapers, covered with haze in the background, in Shanghai, China. China’s Cabinet has announced that 10 billion…
CHINA CONDEMNS JAPAN LEADER ON VISIT TO ETHIOPIA
By ELIAS MESERET Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, sits between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, right, and Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission Erastus Mwencha, left, during Abe’s…
REPORT: ‘LUST, CAUTION’ ACTRESS IS VICTIM OF FRAUD
FILE – In this Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, Chinese actress Tang Wei adjusts her hair to pose for photographers during the opening ceremony of the Busan International Film Festival…
NIGHT FIRE DESTROYS ANCIENT TIBETAN TOWN IN CHINA
By DIDI TANG A firefighter works on a roof of a wooden building while a fire ravages ancient Dukezong town in Shangri-la county, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, Saturday Jan.…