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Chinese students in legal action against Trump-era visa restrictions

It took two minutes for Xiao Zheng to get a rejection decision for his U.S. visa.Shortly after he was asked where he attended college for undergraduate study, he was ha

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Women in science: Aiming for the stars - but for how long?

MiMi Aung, a lead engineer on the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, described its first flight on the red planet earlier this year as "an incredible moment". But how do we encourage more girls and young wom

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Tibetan drama graduates stage Hamlet in Lhasa

"To be or not to be, that is the question" -- Tonzhub Cering repeated the classic soliloquies from British playwright William Shakespeare's play Hamlet during his rehearsals. Tonzhub Cering acts

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Messi agrees to join France's PSG after leaving Barcelona

Lionel Messi is seen at the El Prat airport in Barcelona, Spain, leaving for Paris, August 10, 2021. /CFP Six-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi headed for France on Tuesday to join Paris Sa

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Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan launches official WeChat account

Chinese novelist Mo Yan attends a forum on literature and education at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, May 24, 2016. /CFPChinese n

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Arkansas nearly out of ICU beds as Delta variant fuels U.S. pandemic

Nurses check on a patient in the intensive care unit on the COVID-19 ward at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas, U.S., August 4, 2021. /CFP Only eight intensive care unit bed

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UK reports another 25,161 COVID-19 cases, 37 deaths

FILE PHOTO: A man receives a dose of the Pfizer vaccine at an NHS Covid-19 vaccination centre hosted at the nightclub Heaven in London, England. /VCG The UK reported another 25,161 coronavirus

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Revisiting the past and present of the Shoton Festival in Tibet

The annual Shoton Festival runs from late in the sixth month on the Tibetan calendar and lasts until the beginning of the seventh month. In the solar calendar, it takes

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Revisiting the past and present of the Shoton Festival in Tibet

The annual Shoton Festival runs from late in the sixth month on the Tibetan calendar and lasts until the beginning of the seventh month. In the solar calendar, it takes

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China introduces measures to boost flagging birth rate

China unveils details of third-child policy, support measures, July 21, 2021./CFPFollowing the decision in May to relax the country's birth control policy, China rolled

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Senate votes to end debate on $1T infrastructure bill

The Senate on Sunday night voted to end debate on a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, putting it on a glide path, albeit a lengthy one, to passing thi

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Painter's work is off the wall

Artist Wen Na and her painting in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. [China Daily] It's 8 pm, and artist Wen Na is climbing the walls-in a good way. Wen Na, you see, is in the middle of h

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The Art of the Party: Centennial Monument

01:36 In 1919, thousands of Chinese students traveled to France to participate in a new program called the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement.They sought ways to trans

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14-year-old Quan Hongchan: a journey for the gold medal

02:30 Fourteen-year-old Quan Hongchan has struck gold for China at the Tokyo Olympics. Starting the competition as a dark horse on the national team, she's made history in the 10-meter

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U.S. rushes to vaccinate students before classes begin

02:40 TheWhite Houseis ramping up efforts to boost COVID-19 vaccinations among​U.S.children as young as 12 and young adults, ahead of their return to school this fall.Many cities, like

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What’s after low-code? And, why should you go public?

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in

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China roundup: Games are opium, algorithms need scrutiny

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world.The question for the tech news