China accused the United States of "politicising sports" on Wednesday, after Washington said it would discuss calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics with its allies after growing pressure to shun the Winter Games on human rights grounds. Republican ...

Two Uyghur former government officials in Xinjiang have been handed death sentences for carrying out "separatist activities", a court said, as Beijing comes under increasing fire for its actions towards minority groups in the region. Shirzat Bawudun...

The truck which collided with a Taiwanese express train last week killing 50 people slid onto the tracks only around one minute before the accident happened, the government said on Tuesday, as it released dramatic footage of the impact. The packed t...

Domestic tourism in the mainland almost returned to pre-pandemic levels, new data showed on Tuesday, though authorities say it will take some time yet before spending levels go back to normal. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said 102 million mai...

Beijing's navy confirmed late on Monday that a carrier group is exercising near Taiwan and such drills will become regular in a further escalation of tensions near the island. Taiwan has complained of an increase in mainland military activity near i...

China reported its biggest daily jump in new Covid-19 cases in more than two months, as a city on the border with Myanmar in southwestern Yunnan province accounted for all new local cases. Ruili's local government put residents in its urban area und...

A maintenance worker whose runaway truck sparked Taiwan's worst rail disaster in recent decades made a tearful apology on Sunday as investigators said the train driver had little time to react to the collision. At least 50 people were killed and mor...

The Philippines' defence chief said on Sunday that China was looking to occupy more areas in the South China Sea, citing the continued presence of Chinese vessels that Manila believes are manned by militias in disputed parts of the strategic waterway...

China's top anti-graft watchdog said on Sunday a former chairman and head of the Communist Party at state defence giant China North Industries Group Co (Norinco Group) is under investigation for suspected, undisclosed disciplinary violations. The Ce...

Grieving relatives of those who died in Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades held prayers at the crash site on Saturday as salvage crews worked to remove the tangled mass of wrecked carriages. Officials said Friday's devastating collision, which...

Taiwanese prosecutors have sought an arrest warrant for a construction site manager whose truck is believed to have caused a train accident in which at least 50 people died. The crash, Taiwan's worst rail accident in seven decades, occurred after an...

At least 50 people were killed in Taiwan on Friday when a packed train collided with a vehicle on the tracks and then derailed inside a tunnel, in the island's worst railway accident in decades. Officials said the devastating collision was caused by...

The European Union on Friday condemned the "harassment" of foreign journalists in China after a BBC correspondent left the country in the face of legal threats and pressure from authorities. John Sudworth said he had moved to Taiwan -- along with hi...

At least 51 people were killed and 72 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island's worst rail disaster in at least four decades. The train, an express travelling from Taipei to Taitung c...

Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac said on Friday a third production line for its Covid-19 vaccine has been put into use, doubling its annual capacity of the jabs to two billion doses. Its CoronaVac is one of four domestic vaccines given conditi...

The BBC said on Wednesday that one of its journalists in mainland China had relocated to Taiwan, a move that comes amid criticism from Beijing about the broadcaster's reports on alleged human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang regio...

The China-US trade war is pushing Beijing to step up its efforts to steal technology and poach talent from Taiwan to boost the mainland's semiconductor industry's self-sufficiency, the government of the tech-powerhouse island said on Wednesday. Wash...

China’s loans to poor countries in Africa and Asia impose unusual secrecy and repayment terms that are hurting their ability to renegotiate debts after the coronavirus pandemic, a group of US and German researchers said in a report on Wednesday. I...

The Yunnan city of Ruili that borders Myanmar ordered on Wednesday a one week home quarantine for residents of the city's urban area, and mass Covid testing, after reporting six new locally transmitted coronavirus cases. Health authorities said the ...

Taiwan's air force is no longer scrambling each time People's Liberation Army aircraft encroach on its air defence identification zone but tracks the intruders with ground based missiles instead to help save resources, a senior official said on Monda...