Shares of Macau junket operator, Suncity Group, have been suspended again as the fallout from the arrest of its CEO Alvin Chau continues. Chau was detained in Macau on Sunday, following a crackdown by mainland authorities on cross-border gambling. ...

China on Tuesday expressed confidence that the Beijing Winter Olympics will be held successfully as scheduled, but said the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 will pose challenges to prevention and control measures. Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Liji...

Factory activity in China is expanding again. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector came in at 50.1 this month, up from 49.2 in October, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) quoted by the Xinhua n...

Shares of Macau junket operator, Suncity Group, lost nearly half their value in resumed trade on Tuesday after its CEO, Alvin Chau, was arrested on Sunday along with 10 other people. The company said he intends to resign. Chau, the founder of Suncit...

President Xi Jinping on Monday said China would offer another 1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines to African countries and would encourage Chinese companies to invest no less than US$10 billion in Africa over the next three years. The pledge of ad...

Mainland authorities have reported 21 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases. According to the National Health Commission, 20 of them were from Inner Mongolia and one was from Yunnan. There were also 20 new imported cases reported from six regions....

Macau officials said on Sunday that police have arrested 11 people in connection with a money laundering and illegal gambling case. They said those detained include a 47-year-old businessman, surnamed Chau, but stopped short of revealing if the susp...

China has increased lending support for the private sector, with new loans to private enterprises reaching five trillion yuan (US$782 billion) in the first 10 months of 2021, according to a Xinhua report citing the nation’s top banking and insuranc...

Cargo and container throughput at China's ports registered stable growth in the first ten months of the year, data from the Ministry of Transport showed. From January to October, cargo throughput at the nation's ports totalled 12.87 billion tonnes, ...

Macau police have taken away businessman Alvin Chau for investigation, after a mainland court issued an arrest warrant for him over suspected cross-border illegal gambling activities. The Macau government said in a statement that officers had taken...

Beijing has urged Washington to "follow the spirit" of last week's virtual summit between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden, and meet it halfway instead of going further down "the wrong path." The comment from a spokesman at Chi...

China has denounced a move by the United States to invite Taiwan to a summit on democracy next month. In Beijing, a spokeswoman for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhu Fenglian, said China is firmly against any official contact between Ta...

Four people have been killed after part of a staff dormitory building collapsed in Jiangxi province. A section of the six-storey building in Ganjiang New District gave way on Monday evening, Xinhua News Agency reported. The block housed people who...

President Xi Jinping told leaders of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) at a summit on Monday that Beijing would not "bully" its smaller regional neighbours amid rising tension over the South China Sea. "China was, is, and...

China has decided to downgrade diplomatic relations with Lithuania to the level of charge d'affaires, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said on Sunday. The move comes after Lithuania allowed Taiwan authorities to open an office in Vilnius using the na...

The Foreign Ministry on Friday accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit after US President Joe Biden said he was considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights abuses. "Politicising sports is again...

China has condemned the opening of a Taiwan office in Lithuania as an "extremely egregious act," saying any move seeking Taiwan independence was doomed to fail. "There is but one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory...

The Philippines on Thursday accused Chinese Coast Guard vessels of firing water cannon at boats delivering supplies to Filipino marines in the South China Sea, and ordered Beijing to "back off". In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian sai...

The Xinhua news agency on Wednesday said authorities in Beijing had ordered local entertainment spots, including performance venues and internet cafes, to run at 75 percent capacity. The move is a control measure against Covid-19. Other measures ...

China and the United States will ease restrictions on access for journalists from each other's countries, official media on the mainland and the US State Department said on Tuesday. The official China Daily cited unidentified foreign ministry source...