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A former flight attendant of China Southern Airlines lost his job after a video of him kissing another male colleague went viral. He is now suing his former employer, the biggest air carrier of China and in Asia, for unjust firing.  

A boy in southern China might lose his hands after his father burned him with cigarettes and lighter over the years. But the growing number of cases in China may be more about a refusal to tolerate corporate punishment.

The K-pop group Blackpink released a video that included one member holding a baby panda while wearing makeup and touching the mouth of an adult. People in China were not happy.

A new green initiative means people in China are tossing coins out of hearses for good luck. An enterprising group is taking advantage to make a few bucks.

The 2020 presidential election in the US has yet to result in a winner. In China, many people spent their days following the election. The residents of the authoritarian state found the democratic process "exciting" and "entertaining."

A man scolded an after-school school worker for celebrating Halloween, a Western holiday. It sparked a debate about whether or not they should be celebrated in China.

In the US, pollsters are trying to pinpoint Trump supporters that are too shy to admit their preference. In Hong Kong, it is the Biden supporters who are often outnumbered.

The ancient city of Kashgar in Xinjiang has gone into lockdown as it fights to keep a coronavirus outbreak at bay. Our reporter offers a window inside the deserted city. 

A girls’ school principal said she would never take donations from alumni who become full-time housewives. And furniture salespeople were seen slapping themselves while kneeling during a staff training program.

The toughest part of vaccinating the world during the pandemic may not be whether or not the drug works, but how to deliver it globally.

Daigou, or “surrogate shoppers” in Chinese, are professional shoppers who buy luxury and everyday goods from abroad for customers in China. But their business is threatened by regulations and travel restrictions.

The city found 137 asymptomatic carriers that were linked to a factory via a 17-year-old girl. 

A $1.8bn package that includes cruise missiles are the first offensive weapons Washington has provided to the island for four decades.

Even as WeChat, an all-in-one app with over a billion users in mainland China, continues to roll out new features and functions, its restrictions on content sharing have only grown tighter over the past few years.

In a rare public display of anger, hundreds of Chinese parents demonstrated in Beijing on Monday to demand a refund from a private tutoring company they feared would soon go out of business.

Covax is a global alliance aimed at fairly distributing coronavirus vaccines when they become available. China joined the scheme in early October, but Russia and the US have refused to participate. 

Countries including Canada and the US have pledged to let in Hong Kong pro-democracy activists as political refugees, but Beijing says such policies encourage violent protests.

A new rule in China means Muslims who want to visit Mecca must go on government-approved trips, further tightening rules that had already made individual trips to the haj near-impossible.

The Vatican is working with Beijing to try and strike a deal that would mark a significant diplomatic turning point, but some Catholics are not happy. 

Mysterious seed packages postmarked from China have fueled speculations in America, but experts say they are likely part of a scheme used by merchants to trick the algorithms of shopping websites.