More white students are enrolling in public schools than at any time in the city’s history, as wealthy Chinese gravitate to its prestigious international schools.
Visitors to Rome are regularly fined for wading in the city’s famous fountains. But when the fountain in question is also a war memorial, the outcry is national.
Some see a “liaison office” as a first step toward denuclearizing the peninsula, but critics contend it concedes too much to the North for little in return.
The actress has gone from being the imperfect spokeswoman of a movement already having difficulty gaining traction in Italy to a pariah in the nation’s media.
Dubrovnik, Croatia, known to “Game of Thrones” fans as King’s Landing, is a fantasy made real. As crowds of “set-jetters” threaten to spoil the port’s sublime majesty, officials are fighting back.
Angered by the demolition of many of the historical buildings where they live in France, an impoverished community of outsiders protested and officials backed down. But the truce is only temporary.
While calm has returned to a Christian area of Syria ravaged by the Islamic State, the traumatized people have not, with whole villages emptied. “There are so few of us,” says a church official.
Social media dominates communication in Japan, except atop the country’s best-known volcano. But hauling all those postcards off the summit isn’t easy.
A country that once courted Chinese investment now fears becoming overly indebted for big projects that are neither viable nor necessary — except to China.
A mysterious Chinese company went on a buying binge in the Czech Republic following Xi Jinping’s call for greater sway in the region. What was the cost?
By DAVID BARBOZA, MARC SANTORA and ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
A Times investigation into Sri Lanka’s handover of its Hambantota Port starkly illustrates how China turned an ally’s struggles to its strategic advantage.
