Responses on Chinese social media to state broadcaster CCTV’s annual Spring Festival Gala last week were less than uniformly ...

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The annual Spring Festival Gala aired on China’s state broadcaster CCTV this week, prompting wonder and worry at its display ...

Investigative journalists Liu Hu and Wu Yingjiao were released on bail on Saturday, two weeks after they were detained across provincial borders in apparent connection with their recent report on ...

Code name for Zhou Yongkang, former public security chief and close ally of fallen Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai; a popular brand of instant noodles. The kāng 康 in the brand name is the same as ...

Code for June 4, 1989, the date of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square. (The military operation began late on the night of June 3.) Ordinarily the event is referred to as ...

Chai Jing is the impassioned journalist known for her viral self-funded documentary on air pollution, "Under the Dome" (Qióngdǐng zhīxià 穹顶之下). Co-released online in February 2015 by Youku and ...

四年的烽火，转瞬即逝，但俄乌战争对俄罗斯的打击，却是深远而持久的，它让俄罗斯输掉了国际地位，从国际秩序的引领者沦为了国际社会的弃儿；它消解了俄罗斯的军事威望，从北极熊变成了纸老虎；它埋葬了俄罗斯的经济未来，从资源红利跌入了制裁泥潭；它让俄罗斯错失了科 ...

一个地方死了几个游客，在和平时期，这是大事。但战争中的国家，每天阵亡的人数，那是以百计算的。俄罗斯在2025年12月的日均阵亡人数约为1000人‌，俄罗斯对死亡的心态，必然是不一样的。多种因素之下，各方面的安全措施必然是松懈的。

1996年，张扣扣的母亲汪秀萍和邻居王家起了冲突。王正军——当时十七岁——一木棒砸在汪秀萍头上，当晚人就没了。更让张家咽不下这口气的是后面的事：法医当着全村人的面，在张家门口的路上解剖了遗体。十三岁的张扣扣跪在旁边，看着母亲被打开。