China on Tuesday pledged 1.5 billion yuan (US$233 million) to establish a fund to protect biodiversity in developing countries. President Xi Jinping, addressing the leaders' summit of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Conventi...

China's top economic planner announced on Tuesday an improved pricing mechanism for coal-fired power to deepen market-oriented pricing reform in the sector. The National Development and Reform Commission said it will fully liberalise pricing for ele...

Two people have been killed after a bus packed with passengers overturned and plunged into a river in Hebei province. Fifty-one people were on board the bus. Xinhua News Agency said 12 people were still missing while 37 were rescued. The accident ...

Mainland authorities on Sunday denounced a speech by Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen, saying it incited confrontation and distorted facts. The seeking of Taiwan independence closes the door to dialogue, the Taiwan Affairs Office said, adding that the cou...

Taiwan’s leader Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday that cross-strait differences can only be resolved through talks held on an equal footing. She said while the island would not act rashly, there should be absolutely no illusion that the people of Taiwan...

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...