Irina Verchagina founded Too Hao, a lifestyle company that offers distinctive accessories and loungewear made from silk textiles with China-inspired patterns, each with a colorful and humorous touch.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Russian President Vladimir Putin had a call Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as both leaders ...

Today, The Princess Royal conducted her first day of engagements in South Africa. The Princess Royal’s first visit in South Africa was the South African Riding for the Disabled Association (SARDA), ...

BEIJING — China’s vice president held meetings with the U.S. vice president-elect and U.S. business leaders, including Elon Musk, in Washington on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration ...

Work is due to get under way on a new arts and entertainment venue in the centre of Worcester. The city council said contractors would begin work on the site of the old Scala Theatre on Angel ...

New figures published by NHS England found that 66.6% of ambulances at Worcestershire Royal Hospital were left ... up to eight hours in ambulances at Worcester's A&E department across the last ...

WORCESTER — The head of public works in Natick will be Worcester's next commissioner of Public Works & Parks. John Westerling will succeed Jay Fink, who left the post last fall. “Westerling is ...

China purchased the Royal Mint buildings, near the Tower of London and Britain’s financial centre, in 2018. It launched a controversial proposal to use them as its embassy which was initially ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

A surge in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China is sparking concerns five years after the ... it aligns with seasonal patterns for respiratory viruses like influenza and RSV. How to Protect ...

China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth ...