Chinese astronauts successfully performed the country's first tandem spacewalk on Sunday, working for seven hours on the outside of the new Tiangong station in orbit around Earth. Tiangong's construction is a major step in China's ambitious space p...

China's cyber watchdog said Friday it is investigating homegrown ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing over "cybersecurity" concerns, a day after it raised more than US$4.4 billion in a bumper New York IPO. The announcement comes as China's tech giants �...

Taiwan has chosen to get the Novavax Inc Covid-19 vaccine via the Covax global sharing scheme for lower income jurisdictions, the company said on Friday, which would add much needed additional shots to the island's immunisation programme. Taiwan's v...

The United States expressed concern on Thursday over a report that China is building more than 100 new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Washington Post, citing a study of commercial satellite images by a California-based group, rep...

President Xi Jinping pledged on Thursday to complete "reunification" with Taiwan and vowed to "smash" any attempts at formal independence, drawing a stern rebuke from Taipei, which lambasted the Communist Party as a dictatorship. "Solving the Taiwan...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday warned that foreign forces attempting to bully the nation will "get their heads bashed", and hailed a "new world" created by its people as the ruling Communist Party marked the centenary of its founding. In an hour-l...

Celebrations in Beijing to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of China's ruling Communist Party kicked off on Thursday morning with a flyby of fighter jets and helicopters at Tiananmen Square in the centre of the capital. Around 30 aircraft ...

A seven-year-old Taiwanese boy who was in a coma for over two months after he was repeatedly thrown to the floor during a judo class has died, a hospital said on Wednesday. The boy, who was only identified by his family name Huang, was rushed to Fe...

China’s government and its supporters have monitored, harassed and intimidated pro-democracy Chinese students living in Australia, and Australian universities have failed to protect the students' academic freedoms, Human Rights Watch said in a repo...

The United States led calls at a G20 meeting on Tuesday for greater global cooperation in light of the coronavirus crisis as China insisted that multilateralism should not just be a slogan. Italy welcomed foreign ministers of the Group of 20 major e...

President Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to “forever trust, love, and contribute to the CCP”, as he presented medals of the highest honour to 29 party members. The "July 1 medal", announced in 2017 and given o...

President Xi Jinping led the applause at Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium late on Monday for a spectacular celebration of Communist Party history, with China's rebound from the coronavirus given special treatment. The event, held under tight security a...

Electric car giant Tesla will "recall" over 285,000 cars from the Chinese market after an investigation found issues with its assisted driving software that could cause road collisions, a government regulator announced late on Friday. Tesla would co...

Taiwan will tighten border controls to keep out the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, authorities said on Friday, requiring arrivals from five countries, including Britain, to be placed in centralised quarantine facilities. Health ...

At least 18 people were killed and 16 injured when a fire broke out at a martial arts school in Henan province in the early hours of Friday, according to a local government statement. Local media reported that most of the victims were boarding pupil...

Taiwan needs to be clearly aware that its future lies in "reunification" with the mainland and that it cannot rely on the United States, Beijing said on Thursday, responding to questions on a massed incursion by PLA warplanes last week. Twenty-eight...

Taiwan will extend its coronavirus curbs by two more weeks until July 12, as the situation has yet to reach a point where they can be relaxed, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Wednesday. Taiwan has been dealing with a rise in domestic infect...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday lauded the work of three astronauts building the country's first space station as opening "new horizons" in humanity's bid to explore the cosmos. Speaking to the astronauts via video link from the Beijing Aerospace...

China condemned the United States on Wednesday as the region's greatest security "risk creator" after a US warship again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from mainland China. The US Navy's 7th Fleet said the Arleigh Burke-...

A US warship has again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from mainland China, a week after the Chinese-claimed island reported the largest incursion to date of Chinese air force jets in Taiwan's air defence zone. The US Nav...