Taiwan quake: More survivors rescued
Philip Wen Four trapped survivors - including an eight-year-old girl and a woman found under the dead body of her husband - have been rescued alive, but officials warn the prospect of finding further survivors...
Shots fired in Hong Kong as violence flares
Philip Wen Hong Kong police fired "warning shots" in a bid to contain hundreds of surging rioters as Lunar New Year celebrations descended into a night of chaos.
Taiwan quake: Frantic search for dozens missing beneath tower
Philip Wen More than 100 people remain unaccounted for in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan after a powerful earthquake caused an apartment building to collapse.
Defiant North Korea launches 'space rocket'
Philip Wen North Korea has defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket, according to South Korean officials.
Taiwan struck by earthquake: skyscrapers flattened
Philip Wen A powerful earthquake has hit the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, killing at least 13 and leaving hundreds trapped under collapsed buildings.
China's mass migration for Lunar New Year
Philip Wen An estimated 2.9 billion passenger trips will be made during the run up to the Lunar New Year.
How some Chinese are spending their New Year holiday
Philip Wen Beijing: The journey home to spend the week-long Chinese New Year holiday with family is often a feat of logistics.
Happy Chinese New Year, You're still single?
Philip Wen In China, the Lunar New Year is a time of family reunion and celebration; vast distances are travelled so people can be home for the most important holiday on the calendar.
Chinese journalist Li Xin in custody in China after being repatriated from Thailand: wife
Philip Wen A Chinese journalist and activist who disappeared while seeking refuge in Thailand has re-emerged in China, telling his wife by telephone that he is being held by police.
China cracks down on $10b Ezubao Ponzi scheme
Philip Wen Chinese police have arrested 21 people connected with an online finance company accused of fleecing more than $10 billion from investors in one of the world's largest-ever Ponzi schemes.
Four Chinese miners rescued after being trapped underground for 36 days
Philip Wen In a rescue reminiscent of the Beaconsfield Mine collapse, four Chinese miners have been rescued after spending 36 days trapped underground in a collapsed mine.
China, US agree to push for UN resolution on North Korea
Philip Wen China has resisted calls from US Secretary of State John Kerry for tougher trade sanctions against North Korea, but agreed to pursue a new United Nations Security Council resolution to rein in the...
China releases Swedish activist Peter Dahlin
Philip Wen China has released a Swedish rights activist detained earlier this month and accused of undermining the country's national security through his legal advocacy work in Beijing.
Hong Kong bookseller disappearances spark widespread anger and alarm
Philip Wen As far as dramatic plot turns come, it would not have been out of place in one of the salacious political volumes he published.
Swedish rights activist Peter Dahlin 'confesses' on Chinese TV
Philip Wen A Swedish rights activist detained in China under suspicion of endangering state security was the second Swedish citizen to be paraded on state television this week making an apology and apparent...
Tsai Ing-wen becomes Taiwan's first female president in landslide election victory
Philip Wen Taiwanese voters have delivered an overwhelming rejection of the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang government, sweeping opposition candidate Tsai Ing-wen to a landslide victory in the island's landmark...
Tsai Ing-wen poised to become Taiwan's first woman president
Philip Wen Taiwan's voters go to the polls on Saturday in a historic vote widely expected to see opposition candidate Tsai Ing-wen become the island's first female president.
China lays out its vision of the internet: more control, more censorship
Philip Wen President Xi Jinping has defended his government's broad censorship of the internet, in a high-profile speech underscoring China's increasingly emphatic attempts to justify its strict online control.
Smiley faces and rough tactics on display as China puts Pu Zhiqiang on trial
Philip Wen Prominent lawyer Pu Zhiqiang faced trial in Beijing on Monday, as police and plain-clothes security officials manhandled foreign media trying to cover the event.
China's few defiant feminists jailed, harassed, watched
Philip Wen Li Tingting is still adjusting to the attention – both welcome and otherwise – that comes with being the face of China's youthful new wave of feminist activists.
