China / Across America

The hyphen that lies between

[2017-01-13 12:28]

Author Peter Ho Davies is bright and charismatic when he greets me in the lobby of his hotel. He was traveling around America to promote his latest novel The Fortunes, but the wear-and-tear of daily travel doesn't seem to have an effect on him. If it did, he doesn't show it.

Arrest in slaying that unsettled Houston's Chinese

[2017-01-13 13:08]

Houston's Chinese community is relieved that a suspect has been charged in the fatal shooting of a PetroChina employee in December, but members still have safety concerns, and some are talking about arming themselves.

Rogue One opens sluggishly in China

[2017-01-13 13:08]

Despite the inclusion of two popular Chinese actors, the latest Star Wars film struggled to pull in big audiences for its first weekend of release in China, though it was able to win first place at the box office.

Hamlet, as told by Kunqu Opera star

[2017-01-13 13:08]

Shakespeare's Hamlet met Chinese Kunqu Opera on Monday to the delight of a New York audience.

US groups protest Tsai's stopover in San Francisco

[2017-01-13 13:08]

Members of three groups in San Francisco Bay Area gathered on Thursday to protest Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's planned stopover in San Francisco on Friday as she returns from a Central American trip.

New York restaurant blames burden of city regulations for its closing

[2017-01-12 12:07]

The fun has stopped at a longtime Chinese restaurant in Manhattan that fed its share of celebrities and locals for a quarter-century.

1 million Chinese tourists visited LA in 2016

[2017-01-12 12:07]

The number of visitors to Los Angeles in 2016 from China increased by more than 21.9 percent over last year, making it the first US city to have more than 1 million visitors from China, city officials and tourism industry executives said on Wednesday.

Trump criticizes report as 'blot' on intelligence work

[2017-01-12 12:07]

A defiant President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday adamantly denied reports that Russia had compromising personal and financial information about him, calling it a "tremendous blot" on the record of the intelligence community if material with any such allegations had been released.

VW fined $4.3 billion; 6 executives indicted

[2017-01-12 12:07]

Six high-level Volkswagen employees from Germany were indicted in the US on Wednesday in the VW emissions-cheating scandal, while the automaker itself agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $4.3 billion - by far the biggest fine ever levied by the government against an automaker.

John Kerry bids farewell to the fray

[2017-01-10 12:14]

Secretary of State cites progress by Obama administration on climate change, clean energy

The future of things is the Internet of Things in Chinese tech

[2017-01-10 12:14]

"Connectivity" probably is the most-heard term at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), along with "innovation".

Volvo to employ 100 vehicles in autonomous project

[2017-01-10 12:14]

Swedish luxury auto brand Volvo, owned by the Chinese, is launching a project that will include what it calls the world's largest autonomous driving test.

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