China announced on Monday that married couples may have up to three children, a major policy shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country. The change was approved dur...

New Zealand and Australia downplayed policy differences on China on Monday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern denying Wellington was taking a soft stance on human rights to avoid offending its largest trading partner. Ardern's government has taken ...

China on Monday reported a sudden surge of Covid-19 in the country's south, with 20 new local cases on May 30, as authorities locked down areas of Guangdong province's capital city. Of the 27 new coronavirus cases reported by the national health aut...

A Chinese cargo spacecraft carrying equipment and supplies successfully docked with the core module of the country's future space station on Sunday, state media said. A Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft -- loaded with essential...

China on Saturday successfully launched an automated cargo resupply spacecraft to rendezvous with an orbiting module, in the second of a series of missions needed to complete its first permanent space station. The Tianzhou-2, or "Heavenly Vessel" in...

Chinese fans of the popular sitcom "Friends" were furious after censors cut guest stars Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Korean boyband BTS from the much-awaited reunion episode. When the one-off special of the beloved 1990s sitcom was streamed on three...

The southern city of Guangzhou shut down a neighbourhood and ordered residents to stay home on Saturday to be tested for the coronavirus following an upsurge in infections that has rattled authorities. Guangzhou has reported 20 new infections over t...

Authorities in Guangzhou on Thursday reminded residents of the need for social distancing after huge crowds turned up for coronavirus tests. More than a million residents in Liwan district have been ordered to get tested for Covid since infections w...

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 ...