Asia Pacific

The official switch will take place on the city’s 25th anniversary of Chinese rule, a crucial political event that Chinese President Xi Jinping is widely expected to attend.

The latest generation of technology digs through vast amounts of data to find patterns and aberrations, promising to predict crimes or protests before they happen.

Beijing has said that it has sovereignty and jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait while Washington and Taipei assert that the strait is an international waterway.

Authorities have issued extreme weather warnings in multiple regions, while experts warned that these phenomena were more evidence of the impact of climate change.

The trip will be Xi’s first outside mainland China since January 2020, after his "COVID zero" policy closed the country’s borders and limited him to virtual attendance of global events.

Yellen could have talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho amid concerns North Korea is preparing to conduct its first nuclear test in five years.

Authorities earlier ended a search in remote southeastern mountains for survivors of the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that struck early on Wednesday.

Struggling to find jobs goes against what educated young people have come to expect after decades of breakneck growth.

Environmentalists say growth has come at an incalculable cost, with a toxic melange of dyes, tanning acids and other dangerous chemicals making their way into the water.