Beijing is choking on thick, brown smog after air pollution levels skyrocketed on Monday to more than 20 times what the World Health Organization considers to be safe. The oppressive pollution has ...

Schools closed and rush-hour roads were much quieter than normal as Beijing invoked its first-ever red alert for smog Tuesday, closing many factories and imposing restrictions to keep half the city's ...

This was a World Athletics Championships that began with a cloud hanging over it as thick as the Beijing smog. The subject of doping won’t go away and newly elected IAAF President Sebastian Coe, who ...

BEIJING — Strict visa rules, choking air pollution, slow Internet and blocked websites are major impediments as this capital strives to reach a lofty global status in the next five years, a major ...

This post originally appeared in Caixin. The Beijing city government has taken several steps lately to rein in its population growth, a problem authorities blame for foul air, worsening traffic, and ...

For the first time since it instituted a warning system in 2013, Beijing has issued a "red alert" over dangerous levels of air pollution. The state news agency Xinhua reported that the city's air is ...

Defending champions Beijing Ducks face red-hot Liaoning Leopards in the finals of the 2015 CBA season, a best-of-seven playoff series that will decide this year's Chinese champions. The Ducks are led ...

Female newborn who was rescued from a toilet is now in stable condition. There are more than 100,000 abandoned children in China. Most abandoned babies suffer a range of disabilities or medical ...

The finest athletes in the world will descend on Beijing this weekend for nine days of enthralling action, as the 2015 Athletics World Championships get underway. Seven years on from hosting the ...

THE Beijing city government issued its first-ever “red alert” for smog on December 7th. Schools were closed, outdoor construction halted, car use limited and some factories shut until the air quality ...

It starts with the opening bars of "The Snow and Ice Dance," the song's critics say, then it builds: an eerie sense that the song — an official melody of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing — is a ...