Beijing kicked off its Winter Olympics torch relay early on Wednesday, with Chinese basketball great and Olympian Yao Ming among the first to carry the flame on a journey that will last just three days due to Covid-19 curbs. The relay will carry the...

The Covid-19 situation at the Beijing Winter Olympics is within the "expected controllable range", despite increasing positive cases being detected, a senior official at China's Olympics Pandemic Prevention and Control Office said on Tuesday. The Be...

President Xi Jinping has extended Lunar New Year greetings to all Chinese people. According to Xinhua News Agency, Xi sent his greetings to all Chinese people, including the people of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, during a reception in Beijing. He s...

Police in Macau said on Sunday that they'd arrested two men for alleged illegal gambling and money laundering, and it's emerged that one of them is the chief executive of Hong Kong-listed casino operator Macau Legend Development. "One of the men inv...

Beijing recorded its highest number of new Covid-19 cases for a year and a half on Sunday, as the city gears up to host the Winter Olympics in five days. China will hold the Games in a strict "closed-loop" bubble as part of its zero-Covid strategy o...

China Unicom said Friday there were no "justifiable grounds" for a US order that banned the company from operating in the country on national security concerns. The decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday was the lates...

Beijing has limited the movement of people in more parts of the capital, even as it reported fewer Covid-19 cases on Thursday, in a bid to lower virus risk just over a week before the opening of the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beijing's Fengtai district s...

China is demanding the United States end “interference” in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which begin next month, in an apparent reference to a diplomatic boycott imposed by Washington and its allies. The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said Foreign M...

China's ambitious low-carbon goals should not come at the expense of energy and food security or the "normal life" of ordinary people, President Xi Jinping is quoted by the Xinhua News Agency as saying, signalling a more cautious approach to climate ...

President Xi Jinping met with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Tuesday, just over a week before the start of the Winter Games, in a rare in-person encounter with a foreign visitor during the pandemic. The Games will tak...

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee said on Tuesday that 15 new positive cases of Covid-19 were detected among games-related personnel on January 24. Twelve of the confirmed positive cases were among new arrivals. The other three ...

One of China's longest coronavirus lockdowns since the start of the pandemic came to an end on Monday as authorities announced the lifting of most restrictions in the northern megacity of Xi'an. The historic city's 13 million residents had been conf...

Beijing city officials on Sunday said all two million residents of a neighbourhood where a small cluster of coronavirus cases was detected will be tested, less than two weeks before the start of the Winter Olympics. China's cases constitute a tiny f...

China is limiting the torch relay for the Winter Olympic Games to just three days amid coronavirus worries, organisers said Friday. The flame will be displayed only in enclosed venues that are deemed “safe and controllable,” according to officia...

China reported on Friday the lowest daily tally of local confirmed Covid-19 cases in nearly two months, after a national strategy to quickly curb flare-ups forced worst-hit cities to lock down affected communities and cut business activity. China re...

Beijing has ramped up efforts to curb Covid-19 infections, ordering checks among cold-chain firms and urging residents to cut unnecessary gatherings, as the capital reported an uptick in local infections just over two weeks before the start of the Wi...

A hotel worker in Shenzhen has tested positive for Covid-19. She was among 55 new locally transmitted infections confirmed by mainland authorities on Tuesday, down from 127 a day earlier. Authorities in Shenzhen said the patient is a cleaner in a h...

President Xi Jinping warned on Monday that confrontation between major powers could have "catastrophic consequences" in a speech to world leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum. For the second year in a row the face-to-face gathering of political and...

China's birth rate dropped to a record low in 2021, data showed on Monday, extending a downward trend that led Beijing last year to begin allowing couples to have up to three children. Beijing scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, repla...

The National Health Commission on Monday reported 223 new confirmed Covid-19 cases for January 16, up from 119 a day earlier. Of the new infections, 163 were locally transmitted, according to the mainland's health authorities, up from 65 a day earli...