The daily Covid toll in Shanghai continued to increase on Monday, with authorities reporting 50 symptomatic infections and 3,450 asymptomatic cases.   That compares to 47 symptomatic infections and 2,631 asymptomatic cases recorded on Sunday.   The...

City officials in Shanghai have announced that they'll hold separate lockdown and testing operations for the financial hub's east and west sides for nine days, starting on Monday. The city has become the centre of the mainland's Omicron wave, report...

The National Health Commission (NHC) on Sunday reported 1,217 locally transmitted Covid cases, most of them in the northeast province of Jilin. That's similar to Saturday's figure, but the number of reported asymptomatic infections continues to clim...

Recovery crews on Sunday found the second black box - the flight data recorder - from the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed into a mountainside in southern China, state media reported. Flight MU5735, with 132 peopl...

Mainland officials confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died. Flight MU5735 was travelling from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou when the Boeing 737-800...

Authorities in Shanghai on Saturday vowed to ensure healthcare services are readily accessible, after some residents were reportedly denied medical attention as a number of hospitals suspended outpatient and emergency services due to Covid measures. ...

Beijing struck a conciliatory note during a meeting in New Delhi between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday. India said that ties with China could not be normal, however, until tensions wer...

Organisers of the Beijing autoshow, which was scheduled to be held in late April, have reportedly postponed the event due to a recent flare up of Covid-19 cases. Auto China, the event's organisers, have yet to decide on a new date, sources told the...

China hopes Afghanistan will fulfill its commitment to not allowing any external forces to use its territory to oppose neighbours or harm the security of other nations, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday. In a statement published by the Forei...

Hundreds of people in rain gear and rubber boots searched muddy, forested hills in southern China on Thursday, looking for the second flight recorder from a jetliner that crashed with 132 people on board. No survivors have been found since the China...

The Solomon Islands has signed a policing deal with China and will send a proposal for a broader security agreement covering the military to its cabinet for consideration, an official of the Pacific island nation's government said on Thursday. The a...

The government in Macau on Thursday announced that from March 28, the quarantine period for inbound travellers from overseas will be shortened from 21 days to 14, bringing the rule in line with that for people arriving from Hong Kong. Health officia...

A mainland infectious disease expert on Thursday said allowing people to live a normal life during the Covid-19 pandemic is just as important a task as achieving the “dynamic zero” target. Writing on his Weibo social media account, Zhang Wenho...

Beijing on Wednesday announced a target to produce up to 200,000 tonnes per year of carbon-free green hydrogen by 2025. The mainland also aims to have about 50,000 hydrogen-fuelled vehicles by that year, the National Development and Reform Commissio...

Emergency workers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week with 132 people onboard. The black box device recovered is the plane's cockpit voice recorder, based on an early assessment, a Civ...

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...