Efforts to save 22 miners trapped hundreds of metres underground for two weeks in Shandong province have sped up dramatically, as rescue workers lifted out seven people on Sunday and hope to reach more, state media reported. The first miner, brought...

Eight mainland bomber planes and four fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan's air defence identification zone on Saturday, and Taiwan's air force deployed missiles to "monitor" the incursion, the island's defence ministry said. Beij...

The Chinese city of Wuhan marked one year since the start of its traumatic 76-day coronavirus lockdown on Saturday, while the pandemic raged elsewhere and governments scrambled to put in place new measures. Europe faced a worsening struggle with pro...

China on Saturday reported a slight increase in new cases of Covid-19 as it marks the anniversary of the world's first coronavirus lockdown, in the city of Wuhan where the disease emerged in late 2019. The National Health Commission said 107 new Cov...

Rescuers believe it could take at least another two weeks to free miners trapped underground in eastern China, dashing hopes of an imminent retrieval for a group that has already spent 12 days entombed by an explosion. The increasingly desperate att...

Beijing launched mass Covid-19 testing in parts of the city on Friday, while Shanghai was testing all hospital staff, as the mainland battles the worst outbreak since March 2020. The mainland reported a slight decline in new daily Covid-19 cases on ...

A new form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms is most likely caused by illicit vaccines, industry insiders say, a fresh blow to the world's largest pork producer, still recovering from a devastating epidemic of the virus. Two new...

China on Thursday congratulated President Joe Biden on his inauguration and called for a reset in relations between Beijing and Washington, as the new administration brought an end to the fractious term of Donald Trump. Beijing also said it welcomed...

Rescuers in China were drilling new shafts on Thursday to reach gold miners who have been trapped underground for 11 days after an explosion, including one they hope to use to bring the survivors to safety. A total of 22 workers were stuck undergrou...

A Wuhan doctor who was among the first to be infected with Covid-19 a year ago has called on Hong Kong people to put politics aside and take China-made vaccines, even as he accused mainland authorities of trying to cover up the pandemic at its onset....

Taiwan's ties with its most important global backer the United States are off to a strong start under President Joe Biden's government, after Taipei's de facto ambassador attended an inauguration for the first time with an official invitation. Forme...

The mainland plans to impose strict Covid testing requirements during the Lunar New Year holiday season, when tens of millions of people are expected to travel, as it battles the worst wave of new infections since March 2020. Millions of residents i...

Twitter says it has locked the account of China's US embassy for a tweet that defended Beijing's policies in the Xinjiang region, which the US social media platform said violated the firm's policy against "dehumanisation". The Chinese Embassy accoun...

Beijing is touting a state programme that gives Taiwanese on the mainland priority for Covid-19 vaccines, prompting concern within Taiwan's government which sees it as the latest mainland tool to win over the island's population. Beijing is making t...

China's move to sanction former Trump administration officials was "unproductive and cynical", a spokeswoman for President Joe Biden's National Security Council has said, urging Americans from both parties to condemn the action. Around the time Bide...

China is sanctioning more than two dozen officials and members of former president Donald Trump's cabinet, including his secretary of state Mike Pompeo, for violating the country's "sovereignty", its foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The move came...

Beijing health officials on Wednesday said two cases of Covid-19 found in the capital were the highly-transmissible UK variant of the virus, as five neighbourhoods were locked down in the south of the city. The cases in Daxing district were "conside...

Taiwan has cancelled or postponed more large-scale events after a rare outbreak of domestically transmitted Covid-19 cases connected to a hospital, where the military has been sent to help with disinfection. Taiwan, which has kept the pandemic well ...

China has deployed 16 professional rescue teams and dozens of medical personnel to try to save 12 miners trapped underground for 10 days after an explosion in a gold mine in Shandong province, state media reported. A total of 22 miners were left tra...

Beijing authorities said on Wednesday that they will investigate all individuals who entered the capital from abroad from December 10, after reporting the biggest daily jump in new Covid-19 cases in more than three weeks. The measures come amid what...