BEIJING - As the Communist Party of China continues to tighten its grip on the regulation of religion and religious activity, a human rights group is reporting that officials are disrupting religious ...

Lavish funerals are an important part of rural Chinese culture, but one ceremony in northwest China costing over 10 million yuan (US$1.5 million) has raised the question as to whether the age-old ...

Anyone familiar with China knows that it’s a crowded place. Houses are getting smaller and more expensive, traffic jams can last longer than ten days, and city subways have staff on call during rush ...

Read Crain's feature about the funeral industry's death spiral and the few operators managing to stay alive. In 2001, Joe Aievoli put up a small sign in Chinese on the Aievoli Funeral Home in Dyker ...

With Tomb-Sweeping Day around the corner, Chinese-Americans are getting ready to honor their ancestors and mourn their deceased loved ones. The tradition is still there, but has taken various forms at ...

Satellite images of lines of cars and jammed parking lots at crematoriums far from Beijing suggest a much higher death toll than the official count of some 60,000 people that Beijing has acknowledged ...