BEIJING—North Korea’s key diplomatic ally China has voiced firm opposition to what Pyongyang said was its first hydrogen bomb test Wednesday. Beijing said it will lodge a formal protest and has called on its northern neighbor to give up on its ambitions for nuclear weapons. Analysts said that while China is likely to take some […]
Sydney — A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age. The 14,000 year old bone — found among the remains of China’s enigmatic ‘Red Deer Cave people’ — has been shown […]
China has ended its long-standing, one-child policy and will now allow all couples to have two children. The plan was unveiled Thursday following high-level, closed-door political meetings this week in Beijing. Analysts said a two-child policy, while a welcome move, will do little to help lift the country’s declining birth rate or shrinking workforce. The […]
SEOUL—North Korea Sunday rejected resuming international talks to end its nuclear program and instead called upon the United States to negotiate a formal peace treaty. The call for a peace treaty was part of a North Korean Foreign Ministry response to comments made by President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-Hye Friday in […]