The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

When you next bite into a chicken sandwich, consider this: 2,400 of these birds are being slaughtered somewhere in the world every second. From street stalls in Mumbai to supermarkets in Beijing, chicken has become the world’s most consumed meat. In 2023 alone, humans slaughtered an astonishing 76 billion chickens.

The Chinese government is using an increasingly powerful tool to control and monitor its own officials: Surveillance technology, much of it originating in the United States, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Trump is now allowing Nvidia to sell its H200 chips to China.

The U.S. will allow Nvidia to export its H200 data center accelerators to “approved customers” in China, President Donald Trump announced on Monday.

Flight MH370 vanished on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard, including 227 passengers — most of them Chinese — and 12 crew members.

A Beijing court has ruled that Malaysian Airlines must pay $410,000 each to the families of eight passengers who went missing in the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 more than a decade ago

Japan summons Chinese diplomat to ‘strongly protest to the Chinese side’

About a third of eligible voters cast ballots in the 90-seat legislature vote, the first fully vetted under Beijing’s ‘patriots only’ rule

Hong Kong voters are casting ballots Sunday in their second legislative election since a 2021 overhaul eliminated the pro-democracy opposition