Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday said he was lifting restrictions on contacts between US officials and their Taiwanese counterparts, a move likely to anger China and increase tensions between Beijing and Washington in the waning days of Pre...

Buildings shook briefly in Taipei on Saturday as a deep, 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Taiwan, but there were no reports of damage. The quake's epicentre was just off the coast of Yilan county, at a depth of 72.2 km (...

Beijing on Saturday introduced new rules to counter "unjustified" laws and measures that other countries might apply to its companies and citizens, as tensions with the United States worsen. The rules aim at "protecting the legitimate rights and int...

Mainland authorities have asked residents in two cities south of Beijing to stay home for seven days as they try to stamp out a Covid-19 outbreak in which more than 300 people have tested positive in the past week. The cities of Shijiazhuang and Xi...

Beijing will provide Covid-19 vaccines free of charge once they become available to the general public, government authorities said on Saturday. National Health Commission official Zheng Zhongwei said that while manufacturing and transport of vaccin...

Beijing closed places of worship on Friday and authorities in the Chinese capital restricted access to a highway to the city of Shijiazhuang, nearly 300 km to the southwest, which is battling a new cluster of coronavirus infections. The number of ne...

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, will visit Taiwan next week for meetings with senior Taiwanese leaders, Taiwan's government and the US mission to the UN said, prompting China to warn they were playing with fire. Beijing, which ...

The number of new Covid-19 cases reported in the mainland's Hebei province surrounding Beijing fell slightly from a day earlier, as authorities barred people in the provincial capital from leaving in order to curb the spread of the disease. Hebei ac...

China Development Bank's former chairman Hu Huaibang has been sentenced to life in prison for bribery, a Chinese court said on Thursday, marking the second high-profile financial executive sentenced in a week. Hu, who was arrested last February, was...

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 ...