The first batch of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine has arrived in Taiwan. Taiwan has signed contracts securing 10 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, 5.05 million doses of the Moderna vaccine and 4.76 million doses of vaccines through COVAX. ...

China reported 10 new mainland Covid-19 cases on March 2, down from 11 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said in a statement on Wednesday. The National Health Commission said all of the new cases were imported infections. ...

Beijing said on Tuesday that it was discussing a visit to Xinjiang by United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, but that she should not set out with the aim of condemning its practices. Bachelet said on Friday that reports about arbitrary...

The leader of Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) says he is in no rush to travel to the mainland to meet President Xi Jinping, and Beijing's proposals to get Taipei to accept Communist rule have "no market" in Taiwan. The KMT was tr...

Japan has asked China to avoid using anal swabs to test its citizens for coronavirus, saying the method prompted complaints of "psychological distress". Tokyo's intervention comes after reports that US diplomatic personnel in China had complained of...

Health experts in China say their country is lagging in its coronavirus vaccination rollout because it has the disease largely under control, but plans to inoculate 40% of its population by June. Zhong Nanshan, the leader of a group of experts attac...

Chinese Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou was back in a Canadian court on Monday to fight a final round against extradition to the United States, her lawyers challenging the crux of the case - that she allegedly hid business dealings in Iran...

Chinese prosecutors formally charged a popular social media influencer with "defaming martyrs" on Monday, for suggesting that the death toll of the China-India border clash was higher than the official count of four. The blogger, listed in the indic...

Beijing, under growing global pressure over its treatment of a Muslim minority in Xinjiang, is mounting an unprecedented and aggressive campaign to push back, including explicit attacks on women who have made claims of abuse. As allegations of human...

China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a "rapid decline in media freedom," the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) said on Monday. For the third year in a row,...

Mainland China reported 19 new Covid-19 cases on February 28, up from six cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Monday. The National Health Commission, in a statement, said all of the new cases were imported infections...

The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first such move by a European country. Activists and UN rights experts say at least one million Muslims...

China's National Medical Products Administration said on Thursday that it had approved two more Covid-19 vaccines for public use, increasing the number of domestic vaccines approved in China to four. The two newly-approved vaccines are made by CanSi...

President Xi Jinping has declared "complete victory" in the country’s efforts to eradicate rural poverty at a ceremony in Beijing to celebrate what has been a signature initiative of his tenure. In a speech delivered on Thursday, Xi said this "ac...

A Chinese diplomat has told the UN Human Rights Council that the West is fabricating lies about Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet, as part of "vicious vilification of China". Chen Xu, head of the Chinese Mission to the UN in Geneva, condemned Britain, t...

Mainland China reported 12 new Covid-19 cases on February 23, up from 10 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Wednesday. The National Health Commission, in a statement, said all of the new cases were imported infectio...

Canadian MPs have voted to label Beijing's treatment of China's Uighur minority as genocide, hours after Beijing claimed its policy in Xinjiang is a "shining example" of human rights progress. Rights groups believe at least one million Uighurs and o...

New home prices in China grew at a faster pace in January, driven by red-hot demand in the country's mega cities despite several rounds of government cooling measures. Average new home prices in 70 major cities increased 0.3% in January from a month...

China on Monday rejected "slanderous attacks" about conditions for Muslim Uighurs and other minorities living in its Xinjiang region, insisting that they enjoyed freedom of religion and labour rights. Activists and UN rights experts have said that a...

Mainland scientists are developing facial recognition technology so they can create an identity database of monkeys, Xinhua News Agency reports. A research team composed of scientists from Northwest University in Xi'an are hoping to use the technolo...