Edward Wong Nyt News Service

As the pickup truck bounced toward a remote village deep in northeastern Afghanistan, the young woman was told by her companions that she could toss her burqa aside. "It's free here," said the woman, Zarmina Nazaria, a 26-year-old nurse. She slipped off her powder-blue burqa and laid it on the rear seat.The rules that apply to the rest of Afghanist...

In public, he was a twice-divorced computer science professor dedicated to his students and to caring for an elderly mother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that practiced group ...

Gates and cameras have been installed at schools. Security guards have been trained to fend off knife-wielding attackers. China's top security official convened a nationwide conference call, ordering underlings to protect children when they attend classes.But on Wednesday, the latest in a streak of copycat assaults was also the most deadly: a landl...

One developer is building what he calls Asia's largest hotel, with space for a casino and a greyhound racetrack.

Envoys of the Dalai Lama arrived in China on Tuesday to resume a long-running series of negotiations over Tibet that have so far been fruitless.

The Chinese government is taking a cautious approach to the dispute with Google, treating the conflict as a business dispute that requires commercial negotiations and not a political matter that could impact relations with the United States.

As the pickup truck bounced toward a remote village deep in northeastern Afghanistan, the young woman was told by her companions that she could toss her burqa aside. "It's free here," said the woman, Zarmina Nazaria, a 26-year-old nurse. She slipped off her powder-blue burqa and laid it on the rear seat.The rules that apply to the rest of Afghanist...

In public, he was a twice-divorced computer science professor dedicated to his students and to caring for an elderly mother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that practiced group ...

Gates and cameras have been installed at schools. Security guards have been trained to fend off knife-wielding attackers. China's top security official convened a nationwide conference call, ordering underlings to protect children when they attend classes.But on Wednesday, the latest in a streak of copycat assaults was also the most deadly: a landl...

One developer is building what he calls Asia's largest hotel, with space for a casino and a greyhound racetrack.

Envoys of the Dalai Lama arrived in China on Tuesday to resume a long-running series of negotiations over Tibet that have so far been fruitless.

The Chinese government is taking a cautious approach to the dispute with Google, treating the conflict as a business dispute that requires commercial negotiations and not a political matter that could impact relations with the United States.