Shanghai on Sunday ordered its 26 million residents to undergo two more rounds of tests for Covid-19 as the officials try to stop the transmission of the Omicron variant. Residents should self-test on Sunday using antigen kits and report any positiv...

The daily tally of local asymptomatic coronavirus cases on the mainland soared past the 10,000 mark on Sunday. A total of 11,691 people tested positive for Covid-19 without any symptoms, two-thirds of whom were from Shanghai. There were 1,455 sym...

Local Covid cases in Shanghai remained high on Saturday as the city continued its lockdown and testing to curb the spread of Omicron. The daily tally of symptomatic cases in the city dropped to 260 compared to 368 the day before, but asymptomatic i...

Premier Li Keqiang told EU leaders on Friday that Beijing would push for peace in "its own way" in Ukraine after Brussels pressed for assurances that China would not supply Russia with arms or help it circumvent Western sanctions. Li spoke with the ...

Shanghai authorities on Friday reported a slight drop in local Covid-19 cases as its 10-day lockdown moves into its second phase. The city had been expected to lift the lockdown east of the Huangpu River on Friday morning. Instead, it announced th...

Former CGTN presenter Cheng Lei went on trial on Thursday on charges of providing state secrets to a foreign country. The hearing for the Chinese-born Australian journalist was held in a court in Beijing behind closed doors. Cheng, 46, was detained...

Shanghai was set to put the vast majority of its residents under lockdown from Friday, as it expands Covid-19 curbs to include the western half of the city and extends restrictions in the east, where people have already been forced to stay at home si...

Beijing and Moscow on Wednesday pledged to strengthen bilateral ties, during a meeting held between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. According to Xinhua news agency, Wang said China-Russia ties have stood the new t...

Beijing will roll out policies to stabilise the economy in the face of downward pressures, CCTV quoted a cabinet meeting as saying on Wednesday. CCTV reported that a State Council meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang said the central government had...

The mainland’s tax regulator said on Wednesday that it will crack down on tax evasion in China’s booming live-streaming industry, and will start requiring online platforms to report live-streamers' identities, income and profits every six months....

Covid-19 cases in Shanghai continued to rise in Wednesday, as the city reported 326 cases of people displaying symptoms and 5,656 asymptomatic infections. That compares to 96 symptomatic cases and 4,381 asymptomatic ones on Tuesday. Pudong continu...

Beijing has complained to Australia about turning back Chinese students who had flown to Sydney because they did not disclose that they had undergone mandatory military training at Chinese universities. Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a ...

The number of new Covid-19 cases in Shanghai hit a fresh record on Tuesday, with people displaying symptoms almost doubling to 96 and asymptomatic cases jumping to 4,381. That compares to 50 symptomatic infections and 3,450 asymptomatic cases on Mon...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow's relations with China are at their strongest level ever, as Western nations seek to isolate Russia with unprecedented sanctions over its military actions in Ukraine. Beijing has repe...

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. ...