A mainland woman has demanded answers from the organisers of an ill-fated ultramarathon as to why they took so long to tell her what had happened to her father – one of 21 competitors who died after extremely cold weather struck the race. Hail, fr...

Taiwan is considering extending its second highest Covid-19 alert that was due to expire at the end of the week, the health minister said on Monday, as he reported a further increase in domestic cases despite tighter social restrictions. However, H...

Australia said its citizen Yang Hengjun will be tried by a Chinese court on espionage charges on Thursday amid deteriorating relations between the countries. Yang has been held since arriving in China in January 2019 and has had no access to family...

Twenty-one people were killed when extremely cold weather struck during an ultramarathon on Saturday in rugged Gansu province in northwestern China, state media reported on Sunday, sparking public outrage over the lack of contingency planning. The 1...

Chinese agronomist Yuan Longping, who was known for developing the first hybrid rice strains, died at age 91 in the central province of Hunan on Saturday, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Yuan, born in September 1930, helped China come up with ...

China's Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began exploring the surface on Saturday, state-run Xinhua news agency said, making the country only the second nation to land and operate a rover on the Red Planet. The launch last July of the T...

Taiwan reported another rise in domestic Covid-19 cases on Saturday, but the health minister said the trend remained stable with new infections concentrated in the northern part of the island in and around Taipei. After months of keeping the pandemi...

China reported 10 new Covid-19 cases on May 21, down from 24 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that nine of the new cases were imported infections. The n...

A series of strong earthquakes rattled northwest and southwest China, leaving at least three people dead, local officials and seismologists said early on Saturday. Both Qinghai province in the northwest on the Tibetan plateau and Yunnan province in ...

Australia has asked for its officials to be given access to the trial of a Chinese-Australian blogger detained for two years in Beijing on spying charges when he goes to court on May 27. In a statement, foreign minister Marise Payne confirmed that A...

China’s internet watchdog said on Friday it had found Bytedance’s Douyin, Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn and 102 other apps were engaged in improper collection and use of data and ordered them to fix the problem. The Cyberspace Administration of China...

Taiwan's health minister said on Friday that he had asked the United States for help in obtaining Covid-19 vaccines, as another 312 confirmed cases were reported as part of the island's worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic. Taiwan's ba...

A skyscraper in southern China that caused panic when it started to shake earlier this week will stay closed for the foreseeable future, the owner of the building said, as the cause of the swaying is investigated. The 300-metre SEG Plaza in the sout...

Taiwan reported 286 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, a slight increase on the previous day that gave the health minister cause for a sliver of optimism that the situation was not dramatically worsening. Having been held up as an example of how to st...

China on Thursday branded the United States an "out-and-out security risk creator" in the South China Sea, after an American warship sailed through waters near the disputed Spratly Islands. Tensions in maritime waters claimed by both China and many...

China has postponed the planned launch Thursday of a rocket carrying supplies for its new space station due to technical reasons, state media said. The China Manned Space Agency gave no details on what the reasons were, and said only that a new laun...

China's football team warmed up for a set of crucial World Cup qualifiers by receiving "patriotic education" and learning about the history of the ruling Communist Party. President Xi Jinping has grand ambitions for China to host and even win a foot...

Israel’s Embassy in China is protesting against what it describes as “blatant anti-Semitism” on a programme aired by the overseas channel of state broadcaster CCTV discussing the ongoing violence in Gaza and elsewhere. In a tweet, the embassy ...

China accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait after a US warship again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from the mainland. The US Navy's 7th Fleet said the Arleig...

One of China's tallest skyscrapers was evacuated on Tuesday after it began to shake, sending panicked shoppers scampering to safety in the southern city of Shenzhen. The near 300-metre high SEG Plaza inexplicably began to shake at around 1pm, prompt...