The US State Department has cancelled the planned Taiwan visit by its UN ambassador that has drawn strong opposition and a warning from China. The department announced it was cancelling all senior-level overseas travels, including Secretary of State...

The mainland has recorded the biggest daily jump in Covid cases in more than five months, despite four cities in lockdown, increased testing and other measures aimed at preventing another wave of infections in the world's second biggest economy. Mos...

A mainland lawyer hired by family members of the 12 Hongkongers captured in mainland waters by the Guangdong coast guard last year was forcibly dragged into a hearing on Wednesday to decide whether he should be stripped of his licence. Lu Siwei is a...

Brazilian authorities say the mainland-made CoronaVac vaccine has a 50 percent efficacy rate in late-stage trials. While it reaches the minimum target set by the World Health Organisation, it's well behind other vaccines produced by Moderna, at 94 ...

China's ambassador to the UN warned Britain on Tuesday not to interfere in its affairs, after a British minister criticised Beijing's treatment of its Uighur minority during a Security Council meeting. Zhang Jun slammed what he termed a baseless "po...

One of the mainland lawyers hired by family members of the 12 Hongkongers captured in mainland waters by the Guangdong coast guard last year has complained he was harassed by officials on Tuesday – a day before he faces a hearing that could see him...

Britain will introduce new rules for companies to try to prevent goods from China's Xinjiang region entering the supply chain, foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday, toughening London's response to allegations of forced labour. Addressing pa...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) team of international experts investigating the origin of the novel coronavirus will arrive in the Chinese city of Wuhan from Singapore on Thursday, a Chinese official said. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has ...

Lockdowns have been expanded and a major political conference postponed in a province next to Beijing that is the scene of China’s most serious recent Covid-19 outbreak. Residents of the city of Gu’an just south of Beijing have been ordered to s...

The World Health Organisation insisted on Monday that the international investigation into the Covid-19 pandemic's origins, set to start this week in China, was not looking for "somebody to blame". WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said the dela...

China condemned the United States on Monday for scrapping curbs on interactions with Taiwan officials, saying nobody could prevent the country's "re-unification", while Taiwan's foreign minister hailed the US move as a sign of "global partnership". ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts tasked with investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will arrive in China on January 14, mainland authorities said on Monday. Lack of authorisation from Beijing had delayed th...

The US lifting of restrictions on interactions with Taiwanese officials is a "big thing", Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Monday, describing it as a major boost for relations with the island's most important global backer. US Secretary of ...

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 ...