This comes amid indications that Beijing is increasingly uneasy about the expanding partnership between Russia and North Korea. VOA's Nike Ching reports.

But while you may have heard of Anne Bonny and Grace O’Malley, I bet most people haven't met a little lady named Ching Shih. She was China's pre-eminent pirate queen. From her perverse bedroom ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Ching Ming comes on the fifteenth day following the spring equinox, which puts it at the fourth or fifth of April on the Gregorian Calendar ...