China’s Social Credit System

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta speaks during an interview in her office in Wellington, promising to bring a new perspective to the role. Photo: AP She was appointed last month after PM Jacinda Ardern’s landslide election victory, and has a moko kauae (sacred facial tattoo) to celebrate her Maori…

People wear face masks at Hongqiao Railway Station amid the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Shanghai, China, November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Aly SongSHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported 21 new COVID-19 cases on Nov. 25, up from five cases a day earlier, its national health authority said on Thursday.The…

NEW YORK - A United Nations Security Council sanctions committee is considering a U.S. proposal to streamline and lengthen exemptions from U.N. sanctions on North Korea for humanitarian aid groups working in the isolated Asian state. The updates to an implementation assistance note - first issued in August 2018 -…

The Catholic Church in China ordained its first bishop since Beijing and the Vatican renewed an agreement on episcopal appointments last month. But Monday’s sign of better relations between Rome and Beijing was followed swiftly by friction over Pope Francis’s first criticism of China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims. Bishop Thomas…

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The Long March rocket carrying Chang'e 5, prepared for launch. CNSA China's space agency launched its Chang'e 5 lunar sample return mission Monday on top of one of its Long March 5 rockets. The mission consists of a lunar orbiter, lander, ascent probe and re-entry module. According to NASASpaceflight.com, landing…

WENCHANG, China (AP) — China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks and debris from the moon’s surface for the first time in more than 40 years — an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the solar system more generally.Chang’e 5 —…

Portrait of Women from Xiamen, by the early Chinese master photographer Lai Fong, was taken in the 1870s and is one of some 20,000 original images in the Stephan Loewentheil Photography of China Collection. Loewentheil is looking for a new home for the collection, preferably in China. Photo: Stephan Loewentheil…

India's foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla speaking at the 3rd Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)-India Conference has highlighted how "upholding of international law is central to our diplomacy". He said, "As a strong proponent of a peaceful and rules-based international legal order, it is no surprise that India supports the…

The morning ritual began as dozens of men filed quietly into mosques in traditional white skullcaps, nodding to one another in the chill of an autumn twilight. But there was no call to prayer. Another less spiritual message flashed silently in red characters on a screen across from one of…