China on Thursday criticised what it called the “politicisation of sports” after British lawmakers urged a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics unless China allows an investigation of complaints of human rights abuses in its northwest. A...

Chinese tech giant Tencent has rolled out a facial recognition "midnight patrol" function to root out children masquerading as adults to get around a government curfew on underage gamers. China bans people under 18 from playing online games between ...

A group of British lawmakers urged the government to take tougher action against China on Thursday over its treatment of minority groups, including a partial Winter Olympics boycott and cotton trade ban. In a report following a months-long inquiry, ...

Vice Premier Han Zheng has called for ecological protection to be stepped up in the Yellow River Basin after a secretive filming project highlighted the need to address environmental problems, state media reported on Wednesday. The Yellow River, Chi...

Chinese tech giant Tencent's WeChat social media platform has deleted dozens of LGBT accounts run by university students, saying some had broken rules on information on the internet, sparking fear of a crackdown on gay content online. Members of sev...

President Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged political parties worldwide to oppose any country that engages in "technology blockades", an allusion to the United States which views China as its strategic competitor. As US President Joe Biden's administratio...

A retired German political scientist has been charged with spying for China for almost a decade, using the political contacts he developed while working for a think tank, the German federal prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. It said the man, ident...

Taiwan's Cabinet said on Monday that with Covid-19 cases abating there is room to ease restrictions and ministries and officials should make preparations for doing so, as the island begins emerging from the worst of its pandemic. Taiwan enacted cur...

A city in Yunnan province near the border with Myanmar has imposed a lockdown and started mass testing after three coronavirus cases were reported on Monday, with officials rushing to curb another outbreak. It is the second time in four months that ...

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...