Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

New legislation will require schools to use Mandarin by default, taking priority over minority ethnic languages such as Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), the ...

China adopted a law cementing President Xi Jinping’s push to assimilate the country’s ethnic minorities, another shift away from Beijing’s long-held policy of giving such groups at least symbolic ...