This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

Even in years where it is impossible to fake a 5 percent growth rate, China’s claims remain absurd. In the COVID year of 2020 ...

The two surveys are to be separately carried out from June 1 to 25 and from Nov 16 to Dec 5, according to the NBS. Residents ...

Researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel ...

Populations around the world were drastically changed at the end of the second world war, but the US saw a steep rise in ...

The Ho Chi Minh City-Can Tho railway project will help create transit-oriented development for provinces and cities along the ...

BEIJING – China’s policymakers have emphasized the need to coordinate domestic economic work with international economic and trade struggles, with efforts focused on stabilizing employment, ...

Tokyo faces the dual challenge of high population density and extreme temperatures, particularly during summer. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a pressing issue in Tokyo, where the ...

The regions that reported population growth are the Xinjiang Uygur and Xizang autonomous regions, and Shaanxi province in western China; Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian provinces in the east ...

as people left cities in an attempt to avoid areas of high population density, where contracting COVID was more likely. More people lived rurally or stayed with relatives outside of major cities ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...