Sinovac says its Covid-19 vaccine is safe in children ages 3-17, based on preliminary data, and it has submitted the data to Chinese drug regulators. More than 70 million shots of Sinovac’s vaccine have been given worldwide, including in China. ...

The leaders of China and North Korea are reaffirming their traditional alliance following contentious talks between top diplomats from Washington and Beijing and diplomatic isolation and economic problems in the North that have left it ever-more depe...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Tuesday that Western forces should know that the days when they could "wantonly interfere" in China's internal affairs are over – and they won't be coming back. Wang made the remark during talks with his Russian ...

Four people were killed when a man detonated a homemade bomb in a village government office in Guangdong province, authorities said. A 59-year-old man suspected of being responsible for the explosive device was also killed in the explosion, local po...

The foreign ministers of China and Russia displayed unity at their meeting Tuesday amid criticism and Western sanctions against them over human rights. Wang Yi and Sergei Lavrov rejected outside sniping at their authoritarian political systems and ...

The EU, US, Britain and Canada on Monday imposed sanctions against Chinese officials over the alleged crackdown on the Uighurs, and Beijing responded by hitting Europeans with immediate tit-for-tat measures. Brussels, London and Ottawa blacklisted f...

Britain imposed sanctions on Monday on four Chinese officials and a state security body over human rights abuses against the mainly Muslim Uighur community in Xinjiang, part of coordinated action by some Western countries to put pressure on Beijing. ...

The United States on Monday announced sanctions on two more Chinese officials in connection with alleged serious human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region, where Washington says ethnic Muslims have been the victims of genocide. The US Treasury ...

China on Monday said it had decided to impose sanctions on 10 EU individuals, including German politician Reinhard Butikofer, and four entities that it accused of seriously harming the country's sovereignty and interests over Xinjiang. In a statemen...

The European Union imposed sanctions on Monday on four Chinese officials, including a top security director, for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, the first sanctions against Beijing since an arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdo...

Three tourists who vandalised China's Great Wall – one of the country's most popular historic landmarks – have been detained and fined, officials said on Monday. Two men and a woman were detained on Sunday after scrawling their names on the wall...

Dozens of dead pigs mysteriously emerged on a riverbank in northern China, state media reported Monday, sparking an investigation and social media speculation about how they perished. China has seen similar scandals in the past which have exposed s...

A Taiwanese air force pilot was killed and another was missing on Monday after their fighter jets disappeared in a suspected mid-air collision off the island's southern coast, officials said. The two F-5E jets disappeared from radar around 3pm local...

New York University said on Monday that it was seeking more information from Chinese authorities after nine students from its Shanghai campus were temporarily detained in what appeared to be police dragnet for drug suspects. A statement from the un...

T-shirts, umbrellas, handbags, lighters and mobile phone cases bearing phrases used by China's top diplomat during a testy exchange with US officials in Alaska have become hot items on Chinese e-commerce platforms. Yang Jiechi blasted US foreign and...

Taiwan kicked off its coronavirus inoculation drive Monday with two top officials getting AstraZeneca shots in a bid to boost public confidence in a vaccine that has had a troubled rollout. Premier Su Tseng-chang and health minister Chen Shih-chung...

The trial of Michael Kovrig, who has been held in China for more than two years on espionage charges, is under way in Beijing in a closed courtroom, days after the United States raised concerns over his case at tense bilateral talks with China in Ala...

China and the United States will set up a joint working group on climate change, the official Xinhua news agency said, in a potentially positive takeaway from what was an unusually rancorous high-level meeting. The top Chinese and US diplomats, in t...

China's first local coronavirus case since February was a staff worker at a hospital and had received two shots of a vaccine between end-January and early February, state media reported on Saturday. The patient, identified by her surname Liu, had be...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reacted angrily on Friday to the closed-door trial of a Canadian man detained in China for more than two years on espionage charges, dismissing it as "completely unacceptable." Businessman Michael Spavor, whose hearing ...