Chinese regulators on Monday slashed the amount of time players under the age of 18 can spend on online games to an hour of gameplay on Fridays, weekends and holidays, in response to growing concern over gaming addiction. The rules, published by the...

Beijing on Monday banned written exams for six- and seven-year-olds, as part of sweeping education reforms aimed at relieving pressure on pupils and parents in China's hyper-competitive school system. China's exam-oriented system previously required...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed Afghanistan and US-China relations in a phone call on Sunday, amid tensions between the world's two largest economies. Wang said it is necessary for all sides to engage with...

China reported 21 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland for August 27, down from 32 a day earlier, according to the National Health Commission on Saturday. Only one of the cases was a locally transmitted infection in southern Yunnan provin...

China on Friday announced new rules to limit the power of computer programmes used to drive the choices of the country's consumers, who must instead be encouraged to use online culture to "spread positive energy". The measures are part of a broader ...

Top Chinese actress Zheng Shuang was hit with a US$46 million tax evasion fine on Friday while references to film star Zhao Wei were wiped from video streaming sites as Beijing steps up its campaign against celebrity culture. Beijing is on a mission...

China has gone on the offensive ahead of the release of a US intelligence report on the origins of the coronavirus, bringing out a senior official to accuse the United States of politicising the issue by seeking to blame China. Fu Cong, a Foreign Mi...

Inactivated Covid-19 vaccines developed by China curbed the spread of the Delta variant during a May outbreak in Guangzhou, a study has shown. Led by reputed Chinese epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, researchers from the Guangzhou Center for Disease Con...

The mainland recorded four new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Saturday of which three were in Shanghai and one in Jiangsu, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. Also reported were 28 new imported cases. Nine were...

Authorities in Shanghai have quarantined hundreds of people in an attempt to halt a fresh Covid-19 outbreak in the city after infections were detected in cargo workers at its airport, the municipal government said on Saturday. Some 120 people deemed...

Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station. The foray, the second spacewalk in two months and relayed on television, is part of a space programme which has already seen t...

The world should guide and support Afghanistan as it transitions to a new government instead of putting more pressure on it, State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday in a call with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. The si...

Chinese regulators on Tuesday issued a lengthy set of draft regulations for the internet sector, banning unfair competition and restricting the use of user data. Internet operators "must not implement or assist in the implementation of unfair compet...

China's job market remained generally stable in July, official data showed on Monday. A total of 8.22 million new urban jobs were created in the first seven months, achieving 74.7 percent of the annual target, according to the National Bureau of Sta...

The mainland recorded 13 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday. Among the local cases, six each were reported in Jiangsu and Henan, and one in Hunan, Xinhua News Agency sa...

Rescuers in northwestern China worked on Sunday to free 19 trapped coal miners, hours after their site was flooded by mud in an accident that has already killed one worker. The flooding happened around noon on Saturday at the Chaida'er coal mine in ...

A former male employee of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is suspected of committing "forcible indecency" against a female colleague, but not rape, according to mainland police probing the assault. The investigation is still ongoing, the police burea...

Beijing on Friday rejected the World Health Organisation's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported "scientific" over "political" efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is once more mounting on China t...

The WHO on Thursday urged China to share raw data from the earliest Covid-19 cases to revive the pandemic origins probe - and release information to address the controversial lab leak theory. The World Health Organisation stressed it was "vitally im...

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...