Health China Approves Its Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine For Widespread Use The state-owned Sinopharm says its vaccine has a 79% efficacy rate — surpassing the widely accepted standard of 50% efficacy. Bill Chappell
World Chinese Court Sentences 10 Hong Kong Democracy Activists To Prison Terms The activists were intercepted as they tried to flee to Taiwan by speedboat. Two people accused of organizing the trip got the stiffest penalties, two and three years in prison. Bill Chappell
World U.S. And EU Condemn Jailing Of Lawyer Who Reported On Coronavirus In Wuhan Zhang Zhan was detained in May after reporting on the coronavirus response in China. Now, she faces years in prison as officials try to silence reports that differ from their own. Reese Oxner
World Chinese Video Game Tycoon, Netflix Producer, Dead After Alleged Poisoning Yoozoo Group CEO Lin Qi, 39, was also executive producer for an upcoming Netflix series. Reports suggest he may have been poisoned by a colleague. Jaclyn Diaz
World Chinese Regulators Open Investigation Into E-Commerce Giant Alibaba China's State Administration for Market Regulation is focusing on allegations that Alibaba forces merchants on its website to sell only on its platform. Jaclyn Diaz
Science China Promises To Share Findings From Its Returned Lunar Probe The successful completion of the Chang'e-5 mission makes China only the third country to have returned soil and rock samples from the surface of the moon. Jaclyn Diaz
World Everest Gets A Growth Spurt As China, Nepal Revise Official Elevation Upward After years of surveys and calculations, the countries said Tuesday that the world's highest peak now stands about 29,032 feet above sea level — more than 2 feet taller than the previous consensus. Colin Dwyer
World 'God ... Let Us Survive': Remembering Korean War's Chosin Battle And Evacuation Seventy years on, war participants are drawing starkly differing conclusions from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The decisive conflict's lasting legacy is still visible on the Korean Peninsula. Anthony Kuhn
Politics Biden Is Good News For Europe, But China Challenges Await Even as European Union leaders welcome more cordial U.S. relations, the trans-Atlantic partnership faces the tough test of handling China's expansion. Frank Langfitt
Politics Biden Vs. Biden On China In the early 2000s, Joe Biden helped bring China and America closer. Now, not so much. Greg Rosalsky
