China reported nine new coronavirus cases in the mainland for February 14, compared to seven a day earlier, the health commission said on Monday. Of the cases, eight were imported infections originating overseas, while one case was recorded in Hebei...

China reported eight new coronavirus cases on the mainland for February 12, compared to 12 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Saturday. All of the new cases were imported infections, the National Health Commission said in a statement...

All hypotheses are still open in the World Health Organisation's search for the origins of Covid-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Friday. A WHO-led mission in China said this week that it was not looking further...

There's been swift condemnation from both the United States and Britain after Beijing's broadcasting regulator banned BBC World News from Chinese territory for what state media described as "serious content violations". RTHK has also stopped its li...

Beijing's broadcasting regulator said in the early hours of Friday that it's banned BBC World News from Chinese territory for what state media described as "serious content violations" and RTHK has also decided to drop its live relay of the broadcast...

People thronged the streets of Wuhan this week, as they made final preparations for the Lunar New Year to bring the curtain down on a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic that killed thousands. The outbreak, which first emerged in Wuhan in late 2...

China and India have agreed to pull back troops from a bitterly contested lake area high in the western Himalayas, the Indian defence minister said on Thursday, in a breakthrough after a months-long standoff on the disputed border. Rajnath Singh tol...

Taiwan's government expressed its thanks to and "admiration" for US President Joe Biden on Thursday after he told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping of his concerns about Beijing's pressure against Taipei. Biden's government, which took office on Ja...

Confrontation between China and the United States would be a disaster and the two sides should re-establish the means to avoid misjudgements, President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart Joe Biden in their first telephone call as leaders. The call o...

Chinese tech giant Tencent said on Thursday that a company executive is being held by mainland authorities over allegations of 'personal corruption', after a media report said the move was triggered by sharing personal data from its popular WeChat ap...

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Earth, China's space agency said, in the country's first independent mission to the red planet. The robotic probe carried out a 15-mi...

China's consumer prices fell in January after a brief improvement at the end of last year, as the world's second-biggest economy was hit by the impact of fresh coronavirus outbreaks and decreased travel, official data showed Wednesday. The consumer ...

The World Health Organisation mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the animal source, scientists said on Tuesday. Experts believe the disease, which has gone on to kill more than 2.3 million people worldw...

A Beijing court on Tuesday sentenced prominent publisher Geng Xiaonan to three years in prison after she confessed to conducting "illegal business operations", RTHK has learnt. According to the live stream of the court proceedings, Geng said she ple...

The number of newborns in China plummeted 15 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Public Security, with the onset of the novel coronavirus disrupting the economy and weighing on decisions to have a family. China saw 10.0...

A rare uncensored app that had attracted Chinese internet users to freely discuss taboo topics, including the mass detention of Uighurs, democracy protests in Hong Kong and the concept of Taiwanese independence appeared to have been blocked on Monday...

An Australian journalist who has been detained for nearly six months in China where she worked for a state-television channel has been formally arrested on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, Canberra and Beijing said on Monday. ...

China reported 14 new mainland Covid-19 cases on February 7, official data showed on Monday, up slightly from a day earlier. All new cases originated from overseas. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed Co...

China delivered 600,000 doses of its Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine to ally Cambodia on Sunday, making the kingdom the latest country to use Chinese jabs despite concerns about their efficacy compared to Western alternatives. Cambodian leader Hun Sen...

Scores of people flooded mainland social media on Saturday to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of doctor Li Wenliang, a whistle blower who sought to raise awareness of early Covid-19 infections in Wuhan before dying from the virus himse...