Macau's chief executive, Ho Iat-seng, on Tuesday announced that permanent residents will receive a cash handout of 10,000 patacas next year, while non-permanent residents will get 6,000. The SAR has been handing out cash annually since 2008. In h...

President Xi Jinping has called on his US counterpart Joe Biden to demonstrate "political leadership" in improving bilateral ties. According to Xinhua News Agency, Xi expressed hopes during a virtual meeting between the two leaders that Biden will d...

President Xi Jinping told US leader Joe Biden during their virtual summit on Tuesday that the two nations must improve "communication" and face challenges "together," amid heightened tensions. "China and the United States need to increase communicat...

China's industrial output and retail sales grew more quickly than expected in October, despite fresh curbs to control Covid-19 outbreaks and supply shortages, but the slowing property sector weighed on the economic outlook. Output grew 3.5 percent i...

President Xi Jinping is expected to use his first virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden to warn the United States to "step back" on the Taiwan issue, according to Chinese media editorials printed on Monday. Xi and Biden are scheduled to meet v...

Mainland authorities have reported 70 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, most of them in Liaoning province. According to Xinhua News Agency, the National Health Commission said in addition to 60 new cases in Liaoning, infections were also repor...

President Xi Jinping will meet US President Joe Biden via video link on the morning of November 16, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Saturday. The leaders will exchange views on bilateral relations and issues of common interest, Hu...

China reported on Friday the first Covid-19 cases among foreign athletes at preparatory events for the upcoming Beijing 2022 Winter Games, as stringent measures being put in place to control any outbreaks are put to the test. Two lugers of the same ...

This week's move to establish Xi Jinping's position at the core of the Communist Party answers the call of history, a top party researcher said on Friday, adding that it would be "unthinkable" not to have Xi's leadership. Jiang Jinquan, who heads t...

A landmark resolution on the major achievements and historical experience of the Communist Party over the past 100 years has been passed at the sixth plenary session of the party's Central Committee. According to Xinhua News Agency, a communique of ...

The Asia-Pacific region must not return to the tensions of the Cold War era, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, ahead of a virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden expected as soon as next week. Xi, in a recorded video message to a CEO forum ...

China is resolved to tackle the strong snowstorm that is wreaking havoc and disrupting normal life in its northern regions, Xinhua News Agency said on Wednesday. The lingering blizzard, which began on Sunday, has brought record snowfall. Shenyang...

China has reported an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) at a pig farm on Hainan island, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. The outbreak on a farm of 1,063 animals began on October 23 and was confirmed on ...

The 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party started its sixth plenary session in Beijing on Monday. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee, delivered a work report on behalf of the committee's Political Bureau, Xinhua News Agen...

Zhai Zhigang, the commander of China's three-member Shenzhou-13 mission, started his scheduled spacewalk on Sunday evening, three weeks after the team's spacecraft docked with the country's space core module, Tianhe, which is orbiting Earth. This is...

China has boosted daily output of coal to a new annual high of 11.88 million tonnes after concerted efforts to alleviate a supply shortage as it heads into winter, the powerful state planner said, and production could rise further. The Asian giant's...

The central government on Friday sent out a stern warning to "Taiwan independence" diehards saying such separatist elements are on the mainland's list and will be punished in accordance with the law. Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for the Taiwan Affai...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for the smooth global trade in vaccines and other medical supplies, saying that unilateralism and protectionism are rising across the world and globalisation is facing headwinds. Speaking in a televised addre...

China's top climate negotiator said on Tuesday a broad deal on carbon markets was possible at the UN Cop26 climate talks despite the tensions between Beijing and Washington. It is the first global gathering of leaders to discuss climate change since...

President Xi Jinping has told the UN climate summit in Glasgow that world leaders need to build on the existing consensus, increase mutual trust, step up cooperation and work together to deliver a successful outcome. He also called for concrete actio...