From resuming the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra to easing FDI norms, India and China have been working on bettering bilateral ties over the past year.

For Nepal, India-China trade through Lipulekh raises sovereignty concerns. Kathmandu argues that such arrangements overlook ...

India has appointed Vikram Doraiswami as its new Ambassador to China. Beijing has welcomed the veteran diplomat, expressing hope for improved bilateral relations. Doraiswami, a Mandarin speaker with ...

A surge of residents, many of them mainlanders, have settled in the city since 2023, driving rents to record levels. Hopes are riding high for a sales market bounceback ...

Hu Henghua is the highest-ranking official to fall from grace in the southwestern megacity in nearly a decade The mayor of China's southwestern metropolis of Chongqing has been placed under ...

The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy. Asia, where most of the oil was headed, has been ...

Iranians living abroad are approaching Persian new year with grief and fear as war and a crackdown cut them off from loved ...

War is rippling through their ancestral land — waged against the country where they live. This week, Iranian Americans ...

Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is a time of family, renewal, and the promise of fresh beginnings. Falling on the spring equinox, it is a celebration of a “new day” for millions in Iran and around the ...

The Chinese Spring Festival is traditionally celebrated with dumplings, firecrackers and red paper-cut decorations. This year, however, a new element is joining the festivities: robots. A group of ...

As millions of Americans braced for a series of brutal storms this winter, the senior official in charge of the federal government’s disaster response had been on the job only a few weeks — and had ...