Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday arrived in Tonga as part of his tour through the region, shortly after Beijing issued a position paper on proposals to deepen partnership with Pacific island nations. The document said one of the ways China will s...

Mainland health authorities on Tuesday reported just 97 new local Covid infections, down from 184 a day earlier. Among the new cases, 28 were symptomatic and 69 did not show symptoms. The latest infections were mainly from Beijing, where authoritie...

A jet trainer crashed in Taiwan on Tuesday, killing the pilot, the authorities there say, the second such fatal accident this year. The AT-3 jet crashed during a training mission from the Gangshan air base in the city of Kaohsiung and the body of th...

China's factory activity contracted at a slower pace in May as Covid-19 curbs in major manufacturing hubs were relaxed, but movement controls still depressed domestic demand, restrained production and weighed on the economy in the second quarter. Th...

A Beijing man has landed thousands of his neighbours in quarantine after he ignored a stay-at-home order and later tested positive for Covid, prompting a police investigation. The capital city has ordered hundreds of thousands of residents to stay h...

President Xi Jinping on Monday told leaders of Pacific island nations that China is willing to work with them to build a community "with a shared future". In a written address to a meeting of China-Pacific foreign ministers, Xi stressed that no matt...

Authorities in Shanghai on Monday reported 61 new domestically transmitted asymptomatic infections for May 29, down from 93 a day earlier, while local symptomatic cases fell to 6 from 29. Officials said one new case was reported outside quarantined ...

Shanghai has continued to see a decline in Covid-19 infections, logging 122 new local cases on Sunday – 29 of which were symptomatic. Beijing saw 21 new local cases, including 14 symptomatic ones. Nationwide, health officials reported a total o...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday signed a cooperation deal between China and the government of Samoa on Saturday as he continued his diplomatic tour of Pacific nations. Samoan authorities said the pact covered economic and technical cooperation ...

Health authorities on the mainland on Saturday reported just 264 new local Covid infections – down 90 from the previous day. There were 170 cases in Shanghai, including 131 that were asymptomatic infections. Officials said one of the cases were f...

The number of new local Covid-19 infections and deaths in Taiwan reached new highs on Friday. The island reported 94,808 new locally-transmitted cases and 126 additional fatalities, both single-day highs since the pandemic began. New Taipei City re...

Foreign minister Wang Yi on Friday visited the Pacific nation of Kiribati, where the future of a vast fishing ground is at stake. The four-hour visit by Wang was his second stop on an eight-nation trip, which is taking place at the same time as a co...

Profits at China's industrial firms fell at their fastest pace in two years in April as high raw material prices and supply chain chaos caused by Covid-19 curbs squeezed margins and disrupted factory activity. Profit shrank 8.5 percent from a year e...

China and Russia vetoed a United Nations resolution sponsored by the United States on Thursday that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea for its spate of intercontinental ballistic missile launches that can be used to deliver nuclear...

Beijing on Friday accused US Secretary of State Antony Blinken of “smearing” China, after he delivered a speech calling for action to counterbalance Beijing's influence. In the 45-minute address, Blinken said the US will not block China from gro...

Health authorities on the mainland on Friday reported 354 new local coronavirus infections, a drop of 106 cases from the previous day. Of the 80 symptomatic cases, 45 were from Shanghai, 22 from Beijing and there were seven from Tianjin. Shanghai...

Premier Li Keqiang has called for more to be done to stabilise China's economy, issuing a stark warning as the country battles to defeat Covid-19. Restrictions around the nation in recent months – including in the manufacturing hubs of Shenzhen a...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday said China has “no intention at all” to build a military base in the Solomon Islands, where he began a 10-day tour of Pacific nations. Australia's former government had said that any move to create a Chinese ...

Mainland authorities on Thursday reported 460 new local Covid cases, that’s 60 cases fewer than the day before. Among the new patients, 104 were symptomatic and 356 did not show symptoms. Shanghai took up the bulk of the cases, having reported ...

China on Wednesday said its trade practices are "lawful and legitimate", in response to calls by Australia for it to drop import restrictions if Beijing wants to thaw frozen relations. Australia's Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Chinese sanctions and ta...