Australia's ambassador to China was on Thursday barred from the trial of an academic held on spying charges, in a case that has exacerbated a bitter row between the two nations. The trial of Australian Yang Jun, detained for more than two years on a...

Taipei directly accused Beijing for the first time on Wednesday of blocking a deal with Germany's BioNTech for Covid-19 vaccines. Taiwan has millions of vaccine doses on order, from AstraZeneca and Moderna, but has received only slightly more than 7...

The latest international celebrity to apologise for hurting the feelings of the Chinese people appears to have left people everywhere disappointed, with criticism at home for his "kowtowing" to Beijing, and mainlanders demanding he go further. John ...

Two escaped tigers killed their keeper in Henan province and were shot dead, state media reported, in the latest incident underlining the mainland's chaotic handling of dangerous animals. Tuesday's incident came as authorities were still hunting for...

China is bracing for a heavy flood season with 71 rivers already exceeding warning levels, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, as meteorological authorities warned that global warming is fuelling more extreme weather. Rain in some p...

A mainland official said on Tuesday that Beijing chose to build "education and training centres" instead of new prisons in Xinjiang, and efforts to remove extremist thoughts from people's minds have turned "ghosts into humans". At a press conference...

China on Monday dismissed as "totally untrue" reports that three researchers in Wuhan went to hospital with an illness shortly before the coronavirus emerged in the city and spread around the globe. Since infecting its first victims in the central C...

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...