China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs is seeking public comments on a draft proposal aimed at governing the use of place names throughout the country. The new measures are designed to set a uniform ...

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan skates his short program in the mens competition at the 2019 Skate Canada Autumn Classic International event in Oakville, Ontario on September 13, 2019. (Photo by Geoff Robins / ...

Zhou Youguang, father of pinyin, celebrated his 106th birthday (January 13th) with two cakes, one shaped like a typewriter and the other like a copy of his latest book. Among the enormous changes he ...

BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 08: Yuzuru Hanyu of Team Japan reacts during the Men Single Skating Short Program on day four of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February ...

SOCHI, Russia - On a night when attrition deserved a place on the victory stand next to jitters and nerves, Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu won men's figure skating gold by making fewer critical errors than ...

The faceoff between Yuzuru Hanyu and Nathan Chen was no contest. Japan's Hanyu, looking every bit the champion of the sport, won the short program Thursday at the world figure skating championships in ...

SPOILER ALERT— There are spoilers at the very bottom of this post. Barring some disaster in which Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu and Canada's Patrick Chan forget how to skate, the gold medal will come down ...