Three people were killed and dozens injured when a shallow earthquake struck Sichuan province in the early hours of Thursday, triggering the second-highest level of emergency response by rescuers, mainland media said. The quake struck Luxian county ...

Fujian province reported 120 locally-transmitted Covid cases on Tuesday, the Xinhua news agency said. Authorities there are battling, what appears to be, an outbreak linked to the highly-infectious delta variant. There were also 19 local asymptomat...

Mainland media on Tuesday said it was "imperative and urgent" to regulate advertisements for cosmetic surgery, procedures and treatments, saying that some made excessive or false claims. "From posters at bus stops and in subway, to introductions on ...

New local Covid-19 infections more than doubled in southeastern Fujian province, health authorities said on Tuesday, in the mainland's latest outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The National Health Commission said 59 new locally transmitted cases wer...

Authorities in Shanghai and neighbouring coastal regions cancelled flights, and suspended schools, subways and trains as Typhoon Chanthu approached the mainland. The storm, with winds of more than 170 kilometres per hour near its eye, had been downg...

Macau election officials blamed the Covid-19 pandemic after turnout fell sharply in the SAR's legislative election on Sunday. Voters went to the polls to choose 14 directly elected lawmakers, while professional sectors chose 12 lawmakers in indirect...

Mainland authorities have classified Fengting town in Fujian as a high-risk area after the province reported 21 Covid cases since Friday, Xinhua news agency said. The outbreak appears to be linked to the highly-infectious delta variant. The provinci...

China reported 25 new Covid-19 cases on the mainland for September 10, up from 17 a day earlier, the national health authority said on Saturday. One of the new infections was locally transmitted while the rest were imported, the National Health Comm...

President Xi Jinping on Friday morning held a phone conversation with his US counterpart Joe Biden, Xinhua News Agency reported. The two leaders held candid, in-depth and broad strategic communication and exchanges on bilateral relations and relevan...

Chinese authorities have ordered gaming giants Tencent and NetEase to end their focus on profits and cut content perceived to be breeding "effeminacy", as Beijing tries to direct youth culture, gender ideals and the reach of big tech. The move is t...

China said on Wednesday it welcomed the end of "three weeks of anarchy" in Afghanistan with the establishment of a new interim government in Kabul, pledging US$31 million in immediate aid as it urged the Taliban to restore order. The Islamist group ...

China will set price ranges for after-school tutoring classes and will probe institutions' costs like teacher salaries, the state planner said on Monday, after the country barred for-profit tutoring in any school subject earlier this year. Local au...

"Shared Destiny-2021", an international peacekeeping drill, kicked off on Monday in Henan province, Xinhua News Agency reported. It was the first time the Chinese military organised such a drill, with the participation of troops from countries inclu...

Vice Premier Liu He says the private economy must be supported and "guidelines and policies for supporting the private economy have not changed...and will not change in the future," according to a report from Xinhua News Agency. Liu was speaking via...

German ambassador to China Jan Hecker has died, barely two weeks into the job, the European nation's foreign office said on Monday. Hecker, 54, a foreign policy adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel, had just taken up his post on August 24, the embass...

Mainland China reported 28 new Covid-19 cases on September 3, the same as a day earlier, with one local transmission and the rest coming from overseas, the country's national health authority said on Saturday. The National Health Commission said in ...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday said the country will set up a stock exchange in Beijing, to serve small and medium-sized companies. Currently, the mainland's two major stock exchanges are in Shanghai and Shenzhen. But speaking in a video addres...

Beijing has challenged the US to fix relations with it in order to make progress on climate change, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, with Washington's climate envoy John Kerry visiting to press China to slash emissions. Wang Yi told Kerry that...

Mainland regulators have summoned ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing and 10 other car platforms to demand they cease "disorderly expansion" and "vicious competition" tactics, the government said on Thursday. China has in recent months tightened its scr...

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...