China has rebuffed the latest offer of talks from Taiwan, saying the government was engaging in a "cheap trick" and provocation by seeking confrontation with China at every turn. Taiwan is ready to have "meaningful" talks with China as equals as lon...

Taiwan is ready to have "meaningful" talks with Beijing as long as they are willing to put aside confrontation, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, offering another olive branch in her New Year's speech. Taiwan has come under increasing pressure ...

Large crowds took to the streets at midnight on Friday in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, celebrating the arrival of 2021 after a year marred by a deadly pandemic that killed thousands there and required the city to be locked down between the end ...

China has detected its first imported case of the new coronavirus variant that is spreading rapidly around Britain, according to a publication run by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Countries around the world have cut of...

China has made major progress in developing its economy and eradicating rural poverty over the past year despite the coronavirus pandemic, President Xi Jinping said in a New Year address on Thursday. China was the first major economy to register pos...

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group is planning a facility in China to produce the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Germany's BioNTech, financial magazine Caixin reports. The first phase of the China-based manufacturing facility will have production ca...

Apple removed 39,000 game apps on its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day, as it set year-end as deadline for all game publishers to obtain a licence. The takedowns come amid a crackdown on unlicensed games by Chinese auth...

A Beijing court sentenced 29 people from Taiwan who had been deported from Spain to up to 14 years in jail on Thursday for telecoms fraud, state media said, part of a series of deportations decried by Taiwan as an abuse of human rights. In recent ye...

Major Taiwanese cities have scaled back New Year's Eve events and are telling people to watch fireworks and other festivities at home, after the island's first case of the highly infectious coronavirus variant originally discovered in Britain. Taiwa...

The mainland approved a Covid-19 vaccine developed by an affiliate of state-backed pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm on Thursday, its first approved shot for general public use as it braces for increased transmission risks over winter. No detailed effi...

Two US warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, the US Navy said, the second such mission this month and coming almost two weeks after a mainland aircraft carrier group used the same waterway. Beijing has been angered by step...

President Xi Jinping and top European Union officials concluded a business investment deal on Wednesday that will open big opportunities to European companies, but has the potential to irk the new American administration. Amid concerns about the hum...

Taiwan has agreed to buy almost 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, including 10 million from AstraZeneca, the government said on Wednesday, adding that it had confirmed the island's first case of the new British variant of the disease. Taiwan has...

A vaccine developed by a unit of China National Biotec Group (CNBG) is 79.34% effective at protecting people from Covid-19 and the company is seeking regulatory approval for general public use in China, the developer said on Wednesday. The efficacy ...

Mainland China reported 24 new Covid-19 cases on December 29, down from 27 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission said in its daily online bulletin that 17 of the new cases were...

Chinese meat importers and processors have called on exporters in countries with Covid-19 outbreaks to step up checks on shipments before they are sent to the world's biggest market, China's top industry group said. "China has been importing a large...

The European Union on Tuesday demanded China release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan and 12 Hong Kong activists detained at sea, as it looks to seal an investment deal with Beijing. The flurry of EU statements came as the bloc gears up to agree the pa...

Beijing hopes lengthy negotiations for an investment deal with the European Union can wrap up at an "early date", a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Talks have been stuck for years since beginning in 2014 as the bloc accused China of fail...

Taiwan's EVA Airways said on Tuesday it had sacked four pilots and four cabin crew since March for breaching rules related to preventing Covid-19 infections, adding that it was committed to enforcing anti-pandemic measures. Last week, the company sa...

Mainland China reported 27 new Covid-19 cases on Dec. 28, up from 21 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Tuesday. The National Health Commission said in its daily online bulletin that 12 of the new cases were importe...