A Macau lawmaker says authorities have so far managed to test about half the SAR's residents in a city-wide Covid testing campaign. It follows the discovery of four confirmed coronavirus cases among mainland renovation workers and Vietnamese labour...

US President Joe Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, will meet this week in Europe with a top Chinese official, the White House said on Tuesday. Sullivan and Yang Jiechi will meet in Zurich to follow up on a September 9 phone call betw...

The Macau government has told its civil servants to stay at home until Friday in light of four newly confirmed Covid-19 cases. The SAR recorded three cases on Monday and one on Tuesday. All of the cases were linked. They involved two renovation w...

Macau is launching a third mass Covid testing exercise, following the discovery of a new infection in the SAR. The new case involves a 46-year-old renovation worker who travelled from Zhuhai to Macau on September the 26th. Authorities are still tryi...

The United States has urged China to stop what it called "provocative" military activities near Taiwan, after China sent close to 100 military aircraft over a three-day period near the island. The US said the military fly-bys were an incursion, whi...

Former justice minister Fu Zhenghua is being investigated for possible corruption. Fu, who was also a former vice minister of public security, is under investigation for severe violations of party discipline and law, the Central Commission for Discip...

Former vice minister of public security Sun Lijun has been removed from his post and expelled from the Communist Party for corruption. The announcement by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission on T...

President Xi Jinping paid his respects at a solemn commemoration Thursday to those who died in the struggle to establish Communist Party rule. President Xi and the six other members of the Politburo Standing Committee led aged veterans and governme...

China has urged banks to steady the housing market and avoid speculation as fears mount that Evergrande's debt crisis could spill over into the property sector. Saddled with more than US$300 billion in liabilities that it is struggling to repay, th...

Goldman Sachs Tuesday lowered its annual economic growth forecast for China as nationwide power cuts hit millions of homes and halted production at factories, including some supplying Apple and Tesla. At least 17 provinces and regions – accountin...

In achieving a moderately prosperous society, China has gained new experience of modernisation for humanity, said a white paper released by the State Council Information Office on Tuesday. The country's experience offers a new option for those co...

The State Grid Corporation of China said on Monday that it would take comprehensive measures to ensure people's basic power usage demand and would try its best to avoid the situation of power cuts. The company will coordinate the deployment of resou...

Macau authorities are testing all 680,000 people in the special administrative region, after two security guards working in a quarantine hotel were confirmed with the coronavirus. Officials have said they aim to complete the testing in 72 hours, st...

China's HNA Group, once one of the country's most acquisitive conglomerates, said on Friday that its chairman and its chief executive had been taken away by police due to suspected criminal offences. The company, which was placed in bankruptcy admin...

President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad, using his address at the United Nations General Assembly to add to pledges to deal with climate change. Xi provided no details, but depending on ho...

US President Joe Biden's nominee to a post overseeing export policy on China said on Tuesday he sees Chinese telecoms firm Huawei as a national security threat and expects to keep the company on a trade blacklist unless "things change." If confirmed...

China's economy can cope with the fallout from the possible collapse of debt-riddled property giant Evergrande and contagion to other markets would be limited, the OECD's chief economist said Tuesday. Global markets have seesawed this week over fear...

Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, has brought in a number of social distancing measures after a new local Covid-19 case was reported in the city, Xinhua reported. The new rules cover cinemas, bars, theatres, indoor playgrounds, gyms, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged China and the United States to engage in dialogue, warning of an increasingly divided world. "I fear our world is creeping towards two different sets of economic, trade, financial and technology...

Mainland authorities on Saturday reported 43 new locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases, all in Fujian Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. Also reported were 23 new imported cases, including nine in Yunnan, three...