Beethoven brings out the trash

The yellow trash truck -- and a smaller white recycling truck behind it -- heaved to a stop in front of a brightly-lit convenience store in a middle-class residential neighbourhood in Xinyi District, ... ( read original story ...)

Ukraine crisis may spur China, Taiwan fears

Taiwan is to carry out military exercises to practise the defence of some of its isolated islands, amid fears that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be used by China to hasten its own claim on the ... ( read original story ...)

The Taiwan question: When will Xi make his move?

Opinions vary about whether a successful Ukraine invasion by Vladimir Putin would embolden and accelerate Beijing’s ambitions to reunify self-governed Taiwan with mainland China. Either way, it raises ... ( read original story ...)