Dong Jun rails at length about democratic island’s ‘separatists’ during Shangri-la Dialogue defence conference in SingaporePeaceful “reunification” with Taiwan remains China’s goal but the prospect is being eroded by Taiwanese “separatists” and external forces, the Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has said.Taiwan – which is democratically governed,...

Spacecraft to collect samples from rarely explored area before attempting unprecedented liftoff from ‘dark side’ for trip homeChina’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe has successfully landed on the far side of the moon to collect samples, state media reported on Sunday.The lander set down in the immense South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the largest known impact...

Last week’s conviction of dissidents came in the biggest case since introduction of a new national security lawThe verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes....

A hundred years ago, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to conquer the summit. Mallory’s body was later discovered, but now the remains of both are nowhere to be found. Who moved them?“It will be a great adventure,” George Mallory wrote to his mother before leaving for the summit of Everest a century ago this week.His disappearance, along with...

US says 14 protesters have been jailed for ‘peacefully participating in political activities’ that should have been allowedThe Hong Kong government has rejected western criticism of the conviction of 14 pro-democracy activists for subversion, calling it “untruthful, slandering and smearing”.The US said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” about the guilty...

Videos on Douyin give people step-by-step instructions on how to get to the US – and then leave them stranded upon arrivalThis article is copublished with Documented, a multilingual news site about immigrants in New York, and the Markup, a non-profit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good.Xiong couldn’t pinpoint...