BEIJING--Sprawling Xinjiang is the latest Chinese region to be hit with sweeping COVID-19 travel restrictions, as China further ratchets up control measures ahead of a key Communist Party congress ...

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region lies in far Western China and is of strategic importance. The Belt and Road Initiative runs through it, and the Chinese government is pouring millions of dollars ...

BEIJING--A fire in an apartment building in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region has killed ... prompting lockdowns and rigid travel restrictions affecting millions of people.

AFP via Getty Images The surge in deaths comes after Beijing dropped its strict three-year policy that included frequent testing and travel restrictions. AFP via Getty Images “The standard is ...

Thus, the country where the omicron variant was first detected, said Thursday that many restrictions, including a night-time curfew, would be lifted after the country overcame its latest wave of ...

For more than a decade, Pew Research Center has been tracking global patterns in restrictions on religion – both those imposed by governments and hostilities committed by individuals and social groups ...

China’s southwestern province of Sichuan will drop restrictions on unmarried people having children, part of a broader attempt by the government to boost the country’s plummeting birth rate.

A parkhopping perk that was restricted during the pandemic reopening of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure will become less onerous thanks to complaints from visitors and annual ...

A school librarian looks through titles at a book giveaway held for educators in Florida last summer. The mothers who organized the event hoped to make it easier for school librarians to get their ...

Starting on Feb. 4, parkhopping will still be prohibited for three hours from the traditional 8 a.m. park opening until 11 a.m. For decades before the pandemic there were no time restrictions on ...