China will step up policy support to stabilise the economy as domestic Covid-19 outbreaks and the Ukraine war raise risks, according to a Politburo meeting on Friday. Authorities will adopt a package of policies to help Covid-hit industries and smal...

Rescuers were racing to find survivors after a building housing businesses collapsed on Friday in the central city of Changsha, mainland media reported. The six-storey structure, which collapsed around noon, was home to a restaurant, a guesthouse an...

Shanghai on Friday reported that its daily Covid-19 cases had jumped to 15,032, breaking a five-day downward trend. The number of Covid-related deaths also went up to 52, from 42 the day before. The number of newly diagnosed patients in the city w...

The daily number of confirmed domestic Covid-19 cases in Taiwan has topped 10,000 for the first time, in line with predictions, and health officials warned that infections would continue to rise. The island on Thursday reported 11,353 new local case...

New Covid infection figures in Shanghai have fallen for the fifth straight day to 10,622 on Thursday. Of the new local cases, 1,292 were symptomatic and 9,330 were asymptomatic. But the new infections in the commercial hub still accounted for the ...

Baidu and Pony.ai said on Thursday they had received permits from the Beijing municipal government to provide driverless ride-hailing services in a 60 square mile area of the Chinese capital. Baidu said the permit would allow 10 of its autonomous ve...

The number of new Covid-19 cases in Shanghai on Tuesday continued to fall for the fourth straight day, even though the city still accounted for the bulk of infections nationwide. Shanghai reported 13,562 cases for the day – a 20 percent drop from...

China has recorded the first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, the country's health authority said on Tuesday, but said the risk of it spreading among people was low. A four-year-old boy from central Henan province was found to have ...

A bomb blast ripped through a passenger van carrying Chinese nationals in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing three of them and a Pakistani, police said. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) separatist group claimed responsib...

Beijing on Tuesday expanded its Covid-19 mass testing to eleven districts, as Covid cases ticked up. This comes as the city reported 32 local symptomatic infections and one asymptomatic case on Tuesday, compared to a total of 19 the day before. The...

Shanghai on Monday reported that another 51 people infected with Covid-19 had died, up from 39 the previous day. The Shanghai Municipal Health Commission said all of those who died were chronically ill and more than 70 percent were aged above 80. ...

Shanghai reported 39 new deaths among its Covid-19 patients on April 23, up from 12 the day before, the local government said on Sunday. The city also recorded 19,657 new local asymptomatic coronavirus cases, down from 20,634 a day earlier. The nu...

Shanghai reported that 12 people infected with Covid-19 died on April 22, up from 11 the previous day, the local government said on Saturday. The city also recorded 20,634 new local asymptomatic coronavirus cases on the day, rebounding from 15,698 a...

Shanghai on Friday reported 11 more Covid-related deaths and over 17,000 new local infections, as authorities doubled down on their efforts to fight the outbreak by launching a new round of city-wide testing. The new cases comprise of 1,931 symptoma...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for Asia to be the anchor for world peace and the powerhouse of global growth, adding that countries should add "splendour" rather than trouble to the region. Addressing attendees of the annual Boao Forum for...

Shanghai on Thursday reported eight more Covid-related deaths as it reported around 18,500 new local infections. Officials said the deceased patients – the oldest of them aged 93 – had other illnesses, such as cerebral haemorrhage, coronary hea...

China's aviation authority said on Wednesday the black boxes of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed last month were badly damaged and it was still recovering and analysing the data to help determine the cause. The crash, China's...

Shanghai has reported Covid-related deaths for three straight day as seven more patients passed away. Officials said the seven patients – most of them aged above 70 – had suffered from a range of illnesses, including as cancer, high blood press...

Shanghai on Tuesday reported seven more Covid-related deaths. Officials said the new deaths were all elderly patients who were unvaccinated and suffering from other illnesses. “These people were suffering from the complications of underlying di...

Shanghai authorities on Monday confirmed the deaths of three Covid patients in the city, the first reported in the current outbreak. They included two women and one man, aged between 89 and 91. Health officials in the financial hub said all three...