Former Xinjiang official sentenced to death for bribery, amid China's crackdown on corruption and human rights abuses.

Beijing has issued new spending guidelines to government officials, telling them to live “a frugal life” as China faces ...

Li served as deputy party secretary in the western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from 2016 to 2021 after stints in Qinghai province and Inner Mongolia. He was first investigated for corruption ...

I have not knelt since China’s liberation.” Those were the last words she spoke before the executioner put a shot in the back ...

The following is the first summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. ■ (LEAD) S. Korea, U.S., Japan ...

The next leader of the Catholic Church is unlikely to be either a progressive reformer or a hard-line conservative.

All signs point to the newly elected pontiff’s continuing in much the same vein as his predecessor, but with a more moderate ...

The declaration of assets by a majority of the apex court judges is commendable, but it actually dates back to a process called the Bangalore Declaration. In 2001, a group of senior judges and jurists ...

A growing crop of Russian soldiers have been tapped to fill a wave of government positions after serving in Ukraine, raising ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

Moscow (AsiaNews) – In the grand spectacle of the Red Square parade marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Xi Jinping’s presence stood out as one of the most significant ...