The mainland reported its biggest rise in daily Covid-19 cases in more than five months on Thursday, driven by rising infections in Hebei province. Hebei, which entered a "wartime mode" on Tuesday, accounted for 51 of the 52 local cases reported by ...

Mainland China reported 63 new Covid-19 cases on January 6, the country's national health authority said on Thursday, nearly doubling from a day earlier amid a spike in new local infections in Hebei province surrounding Beijing. The National Health ...

Chinese authorities on Wednesday imposed travel restrictions and banned gatherings in the capital city of Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, in the latest escalation of measures to stave off another coronavirus wave. The province entered a "wa...

Mainland China reported 32 new Covid-19 cases on Jan. 5, down from 33 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission said in a statement nine of the new cases were imported infections o...

An international expert team has set off for China to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, but Beijing has yet to provide the necessary access, the WHO chief said on Tuesday. "Today, we learned that Chinese officials have not yet finali...

A mainland court jailed 17 people on Tuesday for smuggling pangolin scales worth 180 million yuan. The gang were convicted of importing 23 tonnes of scales from pangolins – the world's most trafficked mammal – from Nigeria between 2018 and 2019,...

The former chairman of one of China's largest state-controlled asset management firms was sentenced to death on Tuesday for soliciting 1.79 billion yuan in bribes, in one of the harshest punishments for economic crimes in recent years. Lai Xiaomin, ...

China’s official Xinhua News Agency is calling for shorter work hours in the country’s tech sector following the sudden death last week of a young employee at a leading e-commerce platform. The tragedy re-focused attention on “the pain of an a...

Nearly one year after his release from jail, mainland human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has promised not to give up his work on activism while, on the personal front, continues to cope with life at home, trying to make up for lost time with his fami...

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...