China's banking regulator has urged lenders to extend more credit to real estate developers, as a growing number of homebuyers withhold mortgage payments on unfinished housing projects across 50 cities. The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Com...

Macau authorities said non-essential businesses will be suspended for five more days until 12am Saturday. Officials also said three more rounds of citywide PCR testing will be conducted next week, and people also need to do rapid tests every day. T...

China's gross domestic product expanded 2.5 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2022, while GDP grew 0.4 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, mainland authorities announced on Friday. However, there was a 2.6 percent drop in second quar...

Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday the government will support the economy while preventing inflation. The premier was quoted by CCTV as saying during a meeting with economic experts and entrepreneurs that the mainland economy was hit hard in the s...

TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance is looking for its next big hit by wading deeper into the lifestyle sector of social media with Kesong, a shopping and lifestyle recommendations app similar to market leader Xiaohongshu. Kesong, launched last week, a...

Flooding and extreme high temperatures have caused multiple deaths in eastern China as summer heat descends earlier than usual. Record-high temperatures have been reported in Zhejiang province, east of the business hub of Shanghai, topping out abov...

Beijing said the People’s Liberation Army has “driven away” a US destroyer that had illegally entered Chinese territorial waters by sailing near the Xisha Islands. The USS Benfold's actions seriously violated China's sovereignty and security, ...

Dozens of Chinese cities baked in scorching temperatures as heatwaves melted the roofs of buildings and buckled roads and sweltering weather drove people to seek the cool in raid shelters underground. Nearly 70 cities – including Shanghai and near...

Former justice minister Fu Zhenghua is being prosecuted for alleged corruption. According to Xinhua News Agency, "a public prosecution has been initiated... over suspected bribe-taking and bending the law for personal gains" in the case against Fu. ...

Streets in Macau were largely empty on Monday with all casinos and other non-essential businesses shut on the first day of a week-long suspension, as the gambling hub raced to contain a growing Covid outbreak. Residents were ordered to stay at home...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi held in-depth and candid talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Bali on Saturday, officials from both sides said. The foreign ministry in Beijing said the tw...

The Macau government on Saturday ordered a one-week suspension of all non-essential commercial and industrial businesses, including casinos, starting next Monday to curb its latest Covid outbreak. Only companies authorised by the government, those ...

China has described as "groundless" claims by the US and UK that Beijing is determined to steal their technology for competitive gain. The heads of MI5 and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a rare joint address at the British intelligence serv...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday Beijing was ready to work with new Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr to help usher in what he called a "new golden era" in bilateral relations. That relationship "turned a new page" with the election...

Macau has locked down the Grand Lisboa, one of the city's most famous hotels, after more than a dozen Covid-19 cases were found there on Tuesday, as infections spread in the world's biggest gambling hub. At least 16 other buildings across the specia...

China sweltered under the hottest June in decades, while rainfall hit records during the month. The average temperature across the nation hit 21.3 degrees Celsius in June, up 0.9 Celsius from the same period last year and the highest since 1961, the...

Chinese authorities could dip into strategic pork reserves in a bid to rein in prices of the staple meat, Beijing's top economic planner said on Tuesday. Pork prices in the world's second-biggest economy spiked late last month, with the meat selling...

Vice Premier Liu He had a "constructive" exchange over macro economies and global supply chains via a video call with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday, the Commerce Ministry in Beijing said. According to Xinhua News Agency, the two side...

Beijing on Monday rejected as an irresponsible smear a warning from the chief of Nasa that China might "take over" the moon as part of a military programme, saying it has always called for the building of a community of nations in outer space. China...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his counterparts from Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam during a meeting of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation group on Monday in the Myanmar city of Bagan. The grouping is a Chinese-led initiative that includes ...