President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that reunification with Taiwan must and will be realised and that this accords with the basic interests of Taiwan's people. In a speech marking the 110th anniversary of the 1911 revolution, Xi said: “Compatrio...

Mainland officials have ordered China's two top coal regions to act immediately to expand their annual production capacity by more than 160 million tonnes as the nation battles its worst power crunch and coal shortage in years. Authorities face pric...

A Chinese former journalist, whose work exposed official corruption, has been detained by police on suspicion of insulting "heroes and martyrs" of the Korean War after comments he made about a patriotic film, CCTV reported. According to screenshots ...

President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden are planning to meet by video link "before the end of the year," a senior US official said on Wednesday. There is an "agreement in principle" for the "virtual bilateral," the official told reporters on...

Chinese foreign policy advisor Yang Jiechi and US national security advisor Jake Sullivan held talks in Switzerland on Wednesday, in a bid to improve communication between the two countries. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Yang told Su...

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...