China on Wednesday accused Australia of "political posturing and selfish games" after Canberra announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights concerns. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin slammed Australia for "bl...

China has condemned a visit by a group of Japanese officials and lawmakers to the Yasukuni Shrine. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the shrine, which honours Japan's war dead including convicted war criminals, is a symbolism of Japanese m...

A man who allegedly fled to the mainland after carrying out a violent crime in Taiwan will be sent back to the island, a Beijing official said on Tuesday. Xinhua News Agency reported that the man had confessed to police in Xiamen that he had shot a ...

China has criticised the United States for announcing that it won't send diplomatic or official representation to the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Chinese embassy in Washington called the boycott a pretentious act and political manipulation that ...

China on Monday threatened to take “firm countermeasures” if the United States proceeds with a diplomatic boycott of February’s Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian accused US politicians of grandstanding ove...

China's central bank said on Monday it would cut the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves, its second such move this year, releasing 1.2 trillion yuan (US$188.24 billion) in long-term liquidity to bolster slowing economic growth. The Peop...

The Foreign Ministry has on Sunday released a report on the "State of Democracy in the United States", saying it "exposed the deficiencies" of American-style democracy while accusing Washington of exporting such democracy to other parts of the world....

Officials in Beijing on Saturday issued a new white paper setting out how China did not duplicate western models of democracy but created its own. The Xinhua news agency reported that the document, entitled "China: Democracy That Works," was relea...

The top mainland official in Macau has been named a national security affairs adviser to the Macau SAR government. According to Xinhua News Agency, the central government has decided that the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macau...

Chinese authorities have approved the Boeing 737 MAX to resume service after making a series of safety adjustments, removing a major uncertainty surrounding the American aviation giant's comeback after a lengthy slump. A directive from the Civil Avi...

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...