Authorities in Shanxi province were on Thursday in a race against time to try to rescue 22 people trapped in a flooded coal mine. Authorities there blamed illegal mining for the incident. According to Xinhua News Agency, it happened on Wednesday ni...

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a video call on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations and international affairs, a summit that comes amid heightened tensions between Moscow and the West over a Russian troop bui...

Guangzhou has placed an area under lockdown after the city reported its first Omicron coronavirus infection. The case involved a man, 67, who returned from overseas late last month and repeatedly tested negative for Covid-19 during quarantine. He r...

A national commemoration was held in Nanjing on Monday to mark the 84th anniversary of the massacre in the city by Japanese troops. Those who attended the ceremony observed a minute's silence while sirens blared in the city. This was followed by the...

The central government has ordered some border cities to beef up vigilance against Covid-19 with measures such as mandatory testing for travellers, in its effort to prevent clusters caused by viruses arriving from abroad. Since mid-October, locally-...

The central government on Friday promised tax cuts and support for entrepreneurs to shore up slumping economic growth. China will continue implementing proactive fiscal policies and prudent monetary policies so as to pursue steady progress in the ec...

China has commended Nicaragua on its "right" decision to re-establish diplomatic ties and to break off relations with Taiwan. The statement from the foreign ministry comes as government representatives from China and Nicaragua signed a communique i...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, his spokesman said on Thursday, after the United States announced a diplomatic boycott and several other Western nations followed suit. "The secretary-general receiv...

Chinese astronauts on Thursday beamed back a science lesson from the country’s under-construction space station. The first live class from China's space station was given by Shenzhou-13 crew members Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu to stud...

Guangzhou and Shenzhen have warned of severe water shortages lasting into next spring as the East River, a tributary of Guangdong's Pearl River, continues to be hit by its most severe drought in decades. Authorities in both cities are asking residen...

A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Britain on Wednesday urged the government there to uphold the Olympic spirit and stop political manipulation, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK will “effectively” stage a diplomatic boycott of t...

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...