BEIJING — China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set ... Read more
BERLIN — It’s as if Leipzig, Hanover and Dresden had all disappeared in the blink of an eye, at least statistically speaking. Germany, a country already deeply concerned about its ... Read more
YANGON, Myanmar — The local authorities in the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and ... Read more
LONDON — ZHANG YIMOU, the celebrated film director and arranger of the 2008 Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony in Beijing, was accused last week of being the latest high-profile violator of ... Read more
IWAKI, Japan — After the rumbling and the devastating waves had ceased, the members of a little church a stone’s throw away from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant discovered that a ... Read more
NEW YORK — Here’s a novel way to address the problems caused by rising income inequality: give children the vote. One virtue of this iconoclastic idea, recently advanced by the Canadian ... Read more
Americans who were born to immigrant parents, many of them the adult children of an enormous wave of immigrants who began arriving in the 1960s, are doing better than the foreign born on important measures of ... Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hispanics will soon become the dominant ethnic group in the nation's most populous state, marking a milestone in the country's shifting racial and ethnic composition, according to ... Read more