The findings of a WHO-led mission to Wuhan in China to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 virus are expected in mid-March, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. "The current timing is the week of 14th-15th March," Peter Ben Embare...

Australian broadcaster SBS said on Friday that it was suspending the broadcast of Chinese TV news services CGTN and CCTV after receiving a human rights complaint. An SBS spokesman said programmes from the state broadcaster would not air on Saturday ...

Hong Kong's first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, appeared to have taken a tumble at the conclusion of the opening session of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Friday. Delegates had been milling about at the Great Hall of the People as mu...

China’s top economic official announced a healthy growth target for the nation on Friday, as well as plans to become a more self-reliant technology leader amid tension with Washington and Europe over trade, Hong Kong and human rights. The Communi...

Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday that China will “resolutely guard against and deter external forces’ interference in the affairs of Hong Kong and Macau”. The state leader made the remarks at the opening of the annual plenary session of the ...

The annual session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference opened in Beijing on Thursday, with its chairman, Wang Yang, saying the CPPCC will "unswervingly support the principle of having patriots rule Hong Kong". In his work repor...

Mainland China reported 10 new Covid-19 cases on March 3, matching the figure from a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Thursday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all of the new cases were imported in...

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...