Authorities in Shanghai on Wednesday dismissed rumours that a lockdown would be imposed in the city, even as officials said anti-epidemic measures would be stepped up to contain the spread of Covid-19. The city reported four symptomatic coronavirus...

Buildings shook in Taipei early on Wednesday morning after two earthquakes hit Taiwan in quick succession. The China Earthquake Networks Centre says a 6.6-magnitude quake jolted waters off Taitung county at 1.41 am. Two minutes later, it was follow...

Mainland investigators looking into the nation's worst air disaster in a decade said on Tuesday evening no survivors have been found so far from the crash site of a China Eastern Airlines passenger jet in Guangxi. Speaking at a news briefing, Zhu Ta...

Mainland authorities on Tuesday reported an increase in Covid-19 infections, with Jilin province continuing to be hardest hit. In total, the National Health Commission reported 2,281 symptomatic local cases, compared with 1,947 the day before. The...

No survivors have been found as the search continued Tuesday of the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed a day earlier in a forested mountainous area in China's worst air disaster in a decade. “Wreckage of t...

Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun told employees on Monday that the plane manufacturer has offered the full support of its technical experts in the investigation of the crash of a China Eastern Airlines 737-800 aeroplane. Calhoun said in an email ...

China will give nearly 1 trillion yuan in tax rebates to small firms to shore up economic stability, state media CCTV quoted a cabinet meeting as saying on Monday. The State Council meeting, chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, resolved that China will al...

A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 which had 132 people on board crashed in mountains in Guangxi on Monday following a sudden descent from cruising altitude. Media reports said there was no sign of survivors and the airline said it was in mourn...

Mainland authorities on Monday reported an increase in Covid-19 infections, with Jilin province continuing to be hardest hit. In total, the National Health Commission said 1,947 confirmed symptomatic local cases were reported on Sunday, compared wi...

China stands on the right side of history over the Ukraine crisis as time will tell, and its position is in line with the wishes of most countries, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. "China will never accept any external coercion or pressure, and oppose...

Jilin has again accounted for the highest number of new local Covid-19 infections among all provinces. The National Health Commission confirmed 1,656 new local cases and 2,177 additional local asymptomatic infections on the mainland in the past day,...

Chinese authorities have reported the first two Covid-19 deaths in the mainland in more than a year, both coming in the northeastern province of Jilin as the country faces its worst case upsurge since the pandemic's outset. The deaths were the first...

President Xi Jinping told US leader Joe Biden that the two nations must work together for world peace and tranquility, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The two leaders spoke on Friday evening for the first time since November, in a video call re...

Parts of Shenzhen returned to business as usual on Friday, as authorities say the Covid-19 situation there is now largely under control following a lockdown and two rounds of universal testing. This comes amid a spike in the number of new Covid-19 c...

President Xi Jinping will hold talks with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, on Friday. The Foreign Ministry said the two leaders will exchange views on bilateral relations and issues of common concern on Friday evening, Beijing time. The White House a...

Macau authorities said the SAR could enter a citywide lockdown if a large-scale Covid-19 outbreak happens there. The Macau government on Thursday announced a raft of measures to fight a potential community outbreak. Announcing the emergency pandem...

A mainland infectious disease expert said on Thursday that he believes China’s Covid-19 strategy has shifted to freeing up medical facilities for those who are most in need of treatment. Zhang Wenhong’s remarks came just days after mainland aut...

Companies in Shenzhen, that halted operations under the city-wide lockdown imposed on Sunday to tackle rising Covid-19 cases, will be allowed to resume work and production gradually by area and industry type, a local government official said on Thurs...

The number of locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on the mainland continued to drop on Thursday, to 1,226. That was a decline of more than 30 percent from the 1,860 reported the day before, after a peak in the latest outbreak of 3,507 on Tuesday. Th...

China continued to see a generally stable housing market in February, with home prices in 70 major cities showing only slight month-on-month increases, according to the Xinhua news agency, quoting official data. New home prices in four first-tier ci...