Shanghai aims to end Covid-19 lockdown from June 1st
Residents sceptical about move after similar annoucements during six weeks of restrictions
Mixed performance among Irish universities in latest university rankings
Trinity climbs to 146th, but four colleges slip down Times Higher Education league table
Why women never use the monkey emoji – and men send aubergines
Studies point to a gender gap – but the findings don’t always match stereotypes
Nie Yuanzi obituary: A key figure in the Cultural Revolution
Communist Party activist’s poster led to infamy and a political maelstrom
Formulating values for AI is hard when humans do not agree
China and the West prioritise different things in algorithms
The restaurant offering free pedicures and manicures with your hot pot
Haidilao is China’s most popular hot pot chain, but there’s more than just food on its menu
‘No surrender’ in US trade war, says China
Door remains open for dialogue but China prepared to dig in
China birth rate falls despite policy shift to two children
Chinese couples choosing to stick with having only one child due to rising costs
Meet the seven men at the apex of power in China
Xi Jinping’s leadership committee will dictate Chinese policy for the next five years
Trinity in world’s top 100 universities for arts and humanities
Trinity ranked at 81st place, up from 88, in the global subject specific ranking
Trinity College climbs up global university rankings
Brexit offers ‘opportunities’ for Irish universities but funding increases are necessary
China looks to intellectual property rights for its technological future
Beijing is toughening patent enforcement and trademarks to defend its own IP
Who’s Hu? Ireland welcomes another future Chinese leader
Cantillon: Hu Chunhua is tipped for great things, and Irish visit might bring him luck
US strikes trade deal with China as relations hit ‘new high’
Trump has frequently lashed China , describing Beijing as an ‘enemy’
‘Irish people are only satisfied when I say I’m from China’
New to the Parish: When a man born in Guangzhou discovered a Clannad album, it was the beginning of a life fascination with the Irish language
China’s Cultural Revolution: 50 years on, memories are vivid
Chairman Mao Zedong’s ideological purism shook China and scarred its people
The Cultural Revolution: a storm that swept through China
Fifty years ago, Chairman Mao sought to wipe out all traces of China’s past
Hundreds of children seriously ill at ‘toxic school’ in China
Diseases including cancer widespread at Jiangsu school at site of former chemical plants
China’s one-child policy scrapped to boost economy
Change won’t lead to baby boom, but may help to reverse shrinking workforce
Martin Wolf: Unbalanced hopes for the world’s economy
The global economy is an integrated system, ignoring that reality is futile
China’s corruption campaign takes aim at banking sector
Top banker under investigation as anti-graft probe widens its remit
Chinese students bear heavy burden of expectation as they start exams
Confucian tradition means test to get into third-level is crucial and can be fraught with expectation
Ancient primitive writing discovered on Chinese axes, say experts
Artefacts unearthed in Zhejiang province
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