China will ban karaoke songs perceived to "endanger national security", as state controls attempt to muzzle the mics of a KTV-obsessed nation. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said it will establish a blacklist of banned songs with "illegal conte...

A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed Canadian businessman Michael Spavor for 11 years after finding him guilty of spying in a case his country has condemned as politically motivated. Spavor was detained in 2018 along with compatriot Michael Kovrig on...

China on Tuesday demanded that Lithuania recall its ambassador in Beijing in a row over Taiwan. China has also decided to recall its envoy to the Baltic state. "Recently, the Lithuanian Government, in disregard of China's repeated representations a...

A mainland court on Tuesday rejected Canadian Robert Schellenberg's appeal against a death sentence for drug smuggling. The verdict on Schellenberg comes at a time when relations between the two countries remain frozen following Canada's arrest of a...

More than 80,000 people have been evacuated because of heavy rains and floods in Sichuan province, state media reported on Monday. Water levels at major rivers in the province were above warning levels following heavy rainfall from Friday to Sunday....

The mainland reported more Covid-19 cases as it entered the third week of its current outbreak on Monday, while some cities added rounds of mass testing in the effort to stamp out locally-transmitted infections. The highly infectious Delta variant h...

Authorities in the city of Wuhan on Sunday said they had completed citywide testing of more than 11 million people for Covid-19 after a resurgence of cases more than a year after the coronavirus first emerged there. The tests -- which began on Tuesd...

E-commerce giant Alibaba said on Sunday that it was cooperating with a police investigation into sexual assault allegations aired by a company employee. A statement by Alibaba said the company also had suspended "relevant parties suspected of violat...

Macau completed its mass testing exercise on Sunday, with no positive cases of Covid-19 found from more than 700,000 samples. The SAR ordered all of its residents to take tests on Wednesday after a family of four was diagnosed with the more infectio...

China's top planning authority has allowed shuttered coal mines to restart production as the country works to meet surging power demand while forging ahead with ambitious climate goals. Fifteen mines across China's northern regions ranging from Inne...

Thousands of Macau residents queued up on Thursday to get checked for Covid, on the second day of a mandatory territory-wide testing programme. At around 10am, queues ranging from dozens to around 2,500 people formed outside 41 testing stations. An...

Macau authorities on Wednesday ordered various types of entertainment venues to close from midnight to prevent the spread of Covid-19. But casinos will stay open for the time being. Macau officials have already ordered a "state of immediate prevent...

China on Wednesday reported its highest daily number of local coronavirus cases in months as mass testing and contact tracing campaigns uncovered a trail of Delta variant infections. Health authorities reported 71 domestic cases, the highest since J...

Macau on Wednesday launched a mass Covid-19 testing exercise with the aim of checking everyone in the SAR within three days. Authorities ordered the tests for the city of 680,000 people after a family of four were confirmed to have the more infecti...

Macau authorities are on alert after a couple who recently returned from Zhuhai and their two children tested positive for Covid-19. The SAR said it received notification from Zhuhai authorities on Tuesday that samples they collected from two Macau...

Authorities in Wuhan on Tuesday said they would test its entire population for Covid-19 after the city where the coronavirus emerged reported its first local infections in more than a year. The city of 11 million is "swiftly launching comprehensive ...

The death toll from floods in central China last month is at least 302 with dozens of people still missing, officials said on Monday, after record downpours dumped a year's worth of rain on a city in just three days. Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan ...

China on Sunday reported 75 new cases of Covid-19 for July 31, up from 55 cases a day earlier, including new locally transmitted cases in eight provinces. The wave is part of an expanding Covid -19 Delta variant outbreak in China that is becoming i...

China on Saturday raced to contain its worst coronavirus outbreak in months as fresh cases were reported in two more parts of the country, including the sprawling megacity of Chongqing. The highly contagious Delta variant has already been confirmed ...

A reactor at a Guangdong nuclear plant has been shut down because it is damaged, the operator said Friday, but it insisted there were no major safety issues. Mainland authorities last month blamed minor fuel rod damage for a build-up of radioactive ...