Taiwan's defence minister on Monday said authorities were investigating whether a man from mainland China had managed to cross the Taiwan Strait in a rubber dinghy in a bid to seek political sanctuary. On Saturday, police said a man surnamed Zhou h...

An increasingly powerful China is challenging the world order, acting "more repressively" and "more aggressively" as it flexes its influence, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview that aired Sunday. "What we've witnessed over the...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that differences between New Zealand and China are becoming harder to reconcile as Beijing's role in the world grows and changes. In a speech at the China Business Summit in Auckland, Ardern said there ar...

Australia will review the 99-year-lease of a commercial and military port in its north to a Chinese firm, the Sydney Morning Herald reported late on Sunday, a move that could further inflame tensions between Beijing and Canberra. Defence officials a...

An extreme thunderstorm hit an eastern Chinese city, leaving 11 dead and 102 injured, with strong winds causing buildings and trees to collapse. Nantong city, located in the eastern province of Jiangsu, was among the hardest-hit when the extreme we...

Millions of travellers criss-crossed China as the Labour Day holiday got under way on Saturday, packing out tourist sites, thronging restaurants and visiting family as the vast country edges towards life after Covid. The world's second largest econ...

China's population grew last year, the statistics bureau said on Thursday, in an apparent bid to quash reports that it had fallen, but stopped short of saying from which year numbers had grown. On Tuesday, the Financial Times newspaper said China wa...

Around 400 tonnes of oil spilt into the Yellow Sea after a tanker collided with another ship off China's largest crude-receiving port earlier this week, maritime authorities said on Thursday. "The amount of oil spilt from the ship into the sea is ab...

China on Thursday launched the first module of its new space station, state television showed, a milestone in Beijing's ambitious plan to place a permanent human presence in space. The Tianhe core module, which houses life support equipment and a li...

President Joe Biden took aim at China in his first speech to Congress on Wednesday, pledging to maintain a strong US military presence in the Indo-Pacific and promising to boost technological development and trade. "China and other countries are clo...

A man wielding a knife killed two children and wounded 16 more people at a kindergarten in China's southwestern region of Guangxi on Wednesday, China's official Xinhua news agency reported. Xinhua had earlier reported that two children had been seri...

Washington is looking closely at the trade agreement signed with China by the Trump administration to ensure Beijing is living up to the terms, the top US trade negotiator said on Wednesday. "With respect to the purchase commitments that the Chinese...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed China's prime minister Wednesday for broader discussions on human rights issues, telling him that the relationship between their countries “means that we can address difficult issues and put everything on the...

A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China's Gansu province as seasonal sandstorms barrelled across the country, causing air pollution and traffic accidents. Aerial images as it struck showed an apocalyp...

Villagers in China's far northeast were left terrified when a Siberian tiger pounced on a field worker and attacked a car near the remote border with Russia, state media reported. The male juvenile tiger was first spotted Friday roaming close to Lin...

Beijing-born Chloe Zhao was scrubbed from mainland social media on Monday as a nationalist backlash airbrushed out her remarkable achievement of becoming the first Asian woman to win the best director Oscar. Zhao also became the second woman ever to...

The Philippine coast guard is conducting drills in the South China Sea which an official said on Sunday were part of efforts to secure "our maritime jurisdiction" over the disputed waters. The exercises near the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island and ...

Mainland authorities reported 13 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, up from nine cases a day earlier. The National Health Commission said all of the new cases were imported infections originating from overseas. The number of new asymptomatic cases, whic...

China will hold discussions on building a defence system against near-Earth asteroids, a senior space agency official said on Saturday, as the country steps up its longer term space ambitions. Zhang Kejian, head of the China National Space Administr...

The United States will urge its Group of Seven allies to increase pressure on China over the use of forced labour in its northwestern Xinjiang province, home to the Muslim Uighur minority, a top White House official said on Friday. US President Joe ...