China on Sunday reported seven new Covid-19 cases on the mainland for February 20, compared with eight cases a day earlier, the health authority said. All the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement. Th...

Dramatic footage released by Chinese state media purportedly shows deadly clashes between troops at the Indian border last year – a rare insight into violence at the tense, remote frontier. China's defence ministry on Friday named four soldiers k...

Taiwan's air force scrambled on Friday after eight Chinese fighter aircraft flew into the southwestern part of its air defence zone in another display of stepped-up military activity around the island. Beijing said it is responding to what it calls ...

Beijing on Friday named four soldiers killed in a brawl with Indian forces last year, the first Chinese confirmation of deaths from the border clash that also killed at least 20 Indian soldiers. The Chinese soldiers "sacrificed themselves" during th...

China has dismantled dozens of structures and moved vehicles to empty out entire camps along a disputed Himalayan border, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off since last summer, satellite images released on Wednesday show. ...

China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, US President Joe Biden has warned, responding to queries at a televised event on Beijing's handling of Muslim minorities in its far western region of Xinjiang. President Xi Jinping has drawn global...

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...