Two amateur computer coders pleaded guilty Tuesday to “stirring up trouble and picking quarrels" in a case that highlighted a growing Chinese government crackdown on online activity. Chen Mei, 28, and Cai Wei, 27, created an online archive that st...

Authorities in eastern China used drones and hunting dogs to search for the last of three leopards that escaped from a safari park, which faced strong public criticism for concealing the breakout for more than two weeks. The leopards escaped from H...

China's population has grown at its slowest pace in decades reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on Tuesday, Beijing said. The growth of 5.4 percent since the last census in 2010 reflects fears of a looming demographic crisis amid an ageing...

China on Monday urged the United States, Germany and Britain to cancel an upcoming video conference on Beijing's crackdown on the Uyghur Muslim minority, and called on other UN members not to attend the event. At least one million Uyghurs and people...

Taiwan will fight to the end for an invitation to a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this month, its foreign ministry said on Monday, but China said there was no room for compromise. The rich-nation Group of Seven (G7) has called for Taiwan t...

Beijing defended its handling of a rocket booster that burned up over the Indian Ocean and said Monday it was unfairly being held to different standards than the US and other space programs. The administrator of the American space agency and others...

China will set up a "separation line" on the peak of Mount Everest to avoid possible Covid-19 infections by climbers from virus-hit Nepal, state media reported, after dozens were taken ill from the summit's base camp. While the virus first emerged i...

It's been 13 years since the massive Sichuan earthquake that killed thousands of children, and most of their parents have now given up any hope of getting justice. But despite repeated detentions and beatings by mainland authorities, at least two m...

Two men who have been held in custody for allegedly backing up sensitive articles from the internet are expected to be brought before a court in Beijing on Tuesday. The two volunteers, Chen Mei and Cai Wei – working for the website called "Termin...

A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, the national space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. Officials in Beiji...

China said on Friday the risk of damage from a rocket falling back to Earth was "extremely low", after the United States warned it could crash down onto an inhabited area. Military experts in the US expect the body of the Long March 5B rocket, which...

Some households in Taiwan are going without running water two days a week after a months-long drought dried up the island's reservoirs and a popular tourist lake. Authorities are drilling extra wells and using military planes to dump cloud-seeding ...

A craze in China for live pets sold in mystery "blind boxes" has sparked an online backlash after a courier truck full of dying puppies and kittens was discovered earlier this week. Volunteers in the southwestern city of Chengdu found 160 baby anima...

China criticised New Zealand on Thursday over "groundless" allegations about the ill treatment of Uyghurs, underlining Wellington's struggle to find a middle ground between its largest trading partner and its traditional Western allies. Beijing expr...

China on Thursday said it "strongly condemns" a statement by the Group of Seven nations that accused Beijing of rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong. The G7 made "unfounded accusations against China and openly intervened in China's interna...

The resumption of student visa applications at US missions in China got off to an acrimonious start this week when Weibo users took exception to an American embassy social media post they interpreted as likening Chinese students to dogs. Former US P...

China said on Thursday it had suspended an economic agreement with Australia, in an apparent tit-for-tat response to Canberra's scrapping a Belt and Road infrastructure pact and threat to undo a deal leasing Darwin Port to a Chinese company. The Chi...

China reported five new mainland Covid-19 cases on May 5, down from seven cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Thursday. The National Health Commission said in a statement all of the new cases were imported infections...

Debris from a Chinese rocket that sent part of a planned space station into orbit last week is likely to fall in international waters, China's Global Times reported on Wednesday, amid concerns it could cause damage on re-entry to Earth. The Long Mar...

China urged the Philippines on Tuesday to observe "basic etiquette" and eschew megaphone diplomacy after the southeast Asian nation's foreign minister used an expletive-laced Twitter message to demand that China's vessels leave disputed waters. The ...