Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians were kidnapped in southwest Mali on Saturday, the country's armed forces said, in the latest attack in the war-torn Sahel state. Armed men attacked a construction site 55 kilometres (34 miles) from the to...

China has financed the setup of a fund under Apec to fight Covid-19 and fuel economic recovery, President Xi Jinping said during a virtual meeting of the Asia-Pacific trade group on Friday, according to Xinhua news agency. Xi also said that China su...

Hundreds of rescuers were battling on Friday to reach 14 construction workers trapped in a flooded tunnel in China, as the search entered its second day. Pump trucks channelled water out of the flooded highway tunnel, which runs under a reservoir, i...

Millions of Chinese people face bans from public spaces including schools, hospitals and shopping malls unless they get a Covid-19 vaccine, under new edicts covering nearly two dozen cities and counties. The coronavirus first emerged in the central ...

A shaking skyscraper in southern China that sent crowds fleeing in panic earlier this year was rocked by wind currents, experts concluded on Thursday. The 300-metre SEG Plaza tower in the city of Shenzhen near Hong Kong began to wobble suddenly on M...

Search teams were trying Thursday to rescue 14 construction workers trapped by an overnight flood in a tunnel being built in southern China. The cause of the 3:30 am flood in the city of Zhuhai is under investigation, the city's emergency managemen...

China's economic growth slowed in the second quarter, official data showed Thursday, with consumers still hesitant to splurge and firms grappling with the increased cost of raw materials. The world's second-largest economy has staged a rapid recove...

The US Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ban the import of products from China's Xinjiang region, the latest effort in Washington to punish Beijing for what US officials say is an ongoing genocide against Uighurs and other Muslim groups. The...

The death toll in the collapse of a hotel in eastern China was raised to 17 on Wednesday as authorities ended the search and rescue mission. The city of Suzhou said on its social media feed that 23 people had been pulled alive from the rubble of th...

A mainland man has been reunited with his kidnapped son after a 24-year search that saw him travel half a million kilometres across China on a motorbike, chasing tip-offs on the boy's whereabouts. Guo Gangtang's son was just two years and five month...

China on Tuesday denounced an appeal by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for a US-European “unified front” against Chinese “unfair economic practices” and human rights abuses. “China strongly deplores and rejects Treasury Secretary Yellen�...

Rescuers have pulled another seven survivors out of the rubble of a small budget hotel that collapsed in the eastern China city of Suzhou, state media said Tuesday. The latest figures bring to 14 the number of those rescued, according to the People...

The Biden administration on Monday renewed genocide allegations against China for repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in its northwest Xinjiang region. China denies the allegations, and says mass "vocational education and training" is...

The Chinese sales agent for Germany's BioNTech SE said on Sunday it had signed a deal to provide 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan, part of a drawn-out and highly politicised process for the island to access the shots. Authorities in Taipe...

China on Sunday said it will take “necessary measures” to respond to the US blacklisting of Chinese companies over their alleged role in abuses of Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities. The Commerce Ministry said the US move constitut...

Taiwan's TSMC and Foxconn said on Sunday they were in the middle of the contract signing process to buy Covid-19 vaccines from Germany's BioNTech SE, part of a drawn out and highly politicised process for Taiwan to access the shot. Taiwan's governme...

The leaders of North Korea and China traded messages vowing to strengthen cooperation on the anniversary of their treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between the two countries, North Korea's KCNA news agency reported on Sunday. I...

The Biden administration on Friday added 14 Chinese companies and other entities to its economic blacklist over alleged human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang. The Commerce Department said the companies had been "implicated in hu...

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 ...