Michelle FlorCruz

This week's issue of the North America edition of the Economist depicts Obama and Xi in a forbidden love story.

A meeting between President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping could set the tone for a new economic dynamic.

Prosthetic specialists are saying former Yakuza gang members are turning to them to replace severed pinkies, which are reminders of gang life.

Chinese netizens are not happy with a law that criminalizes giving birth out of wedlock -- and ignores men.

China's visiting president had to hold his own umbrella, plus other diplomatic faux pas for the small but hopeful Caribbean nation.

Chinese culture places a lot of significance on symbols, colors and numbers. The number four is considered to be unlucky.

On the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, Chinese netizens got creative to avoid censorship.

A spate of school sexual molestation cases in China have been uncovered recently by the media there. Over a 20-day period, eight cases of schoolkids being sexually molested by faculty or government officials have been reported, bringing forward the very important issue of child abuse in the nation.As a result, a new Weibo campaign was born out of the disgust and outrage over the young children who had become victims of assault by adults who are in a position of trust or power. Chinese citizens have taken to their accounts to participate in "social activism" against such crimes telling principals and other would-be assaulters to “get a room with me, let go of your students!” and giving their contact information.

The death toll from the Jilin poultry factory fire has reached more than 100. Chinese netizens say someone should be held responsible.

After being abandoned in a bathroom and trapped in a sewer pipe, a now-famous baby in China is now cherished by soccer player Adrian Mutu.

Cash-carrying Chinese tourists have been targeted for thefts and other crimes.

Liang Yali runs a program that teaches single women how to get husbands and keep them interested in as little as 90 days.

The photo editing and sharing platform Instagram has become increasingly popular among Chinese netizens.

Weibo users are seeking justice after an allegedly corrupt official handcuffed a young girl for spilling water on a government vehicle.

China's central government has been rolling out new measures to ensure the nation's young learn the values of the Communist Party.

A violent, sad story that had the Chinese soul-searching ends just as darkly: with a death sentence.

This time, Dennis Rodman isn't involved, but the North Koreans take their diplomacy to the basketball court again.

Photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze captured Hong Kong's famed urban landscape from a different point of view: from the bottom.

A Nanjing teen has been identified by China's Internet users as the culprit who carved characters into a temple wall in Egypt.

In China, some parents have their children learning business basics as early as three years old.

Pro-Tibet activists are boycotting all hotels owned by InterContinental because of a huge resort set to open in Lhasa next year.

At a rural Chinese school, 500 children fell ill after consuming supplemental snacks this week.

How do you boost your chances of passing China's notoriously tough "gaokao"? If you're a woman, take birth control pills.

A new ruling gives the government-backed bishops conference control over appointees, vs. the Vatican, further dividing the nation's Catholics.

During the 2013 UPenn commencement ceremony, Vice President Joe Biden made references to China. They did not go over well.

She's still 53 spots behind Angela Merkel on Forbes Most Power Women list, but Peng is ascending fast.

China plans to add more airports in places that already have poor-performing ones.

Two Chinese men have been arrested for revealing private information regarding MRI technology, while one fled the country.

Six primary students and one woman were attacked by a man with a cleaver while on their way home from school.