Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has banned his cabinet from speaking out in public on the South China Sea dispute, after key ministers engaged in a war of words with Beijing. Tensions between Manila and Beijing over the waterway – which China...

Taiwan is in talks with the United States for a share of the Covid-19 vaccine doses President Joe Biden plans to send abroad, Taipei's top official in Washington said, as the island deals with a rare spike in domestic cases. Biden said the United St...

Taiwan launched island-wide power cuts on Monday evening following a spike in demand amid a heatwave and drought and failure at a power plant, the second such outage in the global tech hub in a week. Phased blackouts hit Taiwan, which major chip mak...

A surge of coronavirus infections in Taiwan, one of the world's Covid-19 mitigation success stories, has left it scrambling to get vaccines as its stock of 300,000 doses starts running out with only about 1% of its 23 million people vaccinated. Taiw...

Taiwan appealed to people to avoid panic buying of items such as instant noodles and toilet paper as new curbs on gatherings and movement took effect to rein in the spread of Covid-19 during a spike in domestic infections. Taiwan raised its coronavi...

China has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world’s highest peak because of fears of importing coronavirus cases from neighbouring Nepal. The closure was confirmed in a notice from China’s General Administration of S...

Two tornadoes ripped through China's central city of Wuhan and a town in the eastern province of Jiangsu, killing 12 people and injuring hundreds while destroying homes and property, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Eight people wer...

Taiwan raised its coronavirus alert level on Saturday in the capital, Taipei, and the city around it, bringing curbs for a period of two weeks that will shut many venues and restrict gatherings in the wake of 180 new domestic infections. The new rul...

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed ...

The Taiwan arm of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily is to stop publishing its print version, the newspaper said on Friday, blaming declining advertising revenue and more difficult business conditions in Hong Kong linked to politics. The...

China's "Zhurong" rover, part of its ambitious space programme to send a probe to Mars, is set to attempt the challenging landing on the Red Planet in the next five days, Beijing's space agency said on Friday. The tricky touchdown, if successful, wo...

China on Friday accused the United States of “coercive diplomacy” following comments by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to his Australian counterpart that the US “will not leave Australia alone on the field — or maybe I should say ‘alone ...

Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday that there is no need to raise the island's Covid-19 alert level for the time being and that compared with last year it has more experience and resources to fight the pandemic. While Taiwan has reported j...

Mainland China reported seven new Covid-19 cases on May 13, down from nine cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Friday. Two of the new cases were local infections in Anhui province, the National Health Commission said...

Tech powerhouse Taiwan resumed power late on Thursday following several hours of phased blackouts islandwide, a problem that briefly impacted major semiconductor firm TSMC. Around 4 million homes were affected on the island of 24 million people afte...

A rotational electricity blackout was implemented across Taiwan on Thursday following an outage at a major power plant, the government said. President Tsai Ing-wen called for calm, saying the power supply would be gradually resumed as workers condu...

Dozens of countries raised awareness about China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang at a meeting at the United Nations on Wednesday, angering Beijing, which had lobbied member states to stay away from what it described as an anti-China event. ...

Two Chinese football teams purposely scored own goals to try to lose a farcical match in what has been described as "an unbelievable" scene and "a smear" on the game. Widely shared footage of the game between the over-35 sides showed them strolling...

Taiwan may raise its Covid-19 alert level in the "coming days", Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Wednesday, according to the official Central News Agency, which would lead to the closure of shops dealing in non-essential items as infections ri...

A Chinese professor has urged the government to offer parents 1 million yuan (US$156,000) for each newborn child in a bid to shore up the country's declining birth rate, sparking a debate on social media about the soaring costs of raising children. ...