A high-speed electric passenger train and an inspection train, customised for a high-speed rail network in Indonesia, has left the port of Qingdao in eastern Shandong province. The trains, which began their journey on Sunday, were designed and manu...

China is mobilising rocket launchers to make it rain. The rockets, launched into clouds, carry chemicals that can induce rainfall, as part of an all-out campaign to protect the country's grain harvest from record-setting drought. The move comes as ...

China cut its benchmark lending rates on Monday, adding to easing measures announced last week, as Beijing steps up efforts to spur credit demand in an economy hobbled by a property crisis and a resurgence of Covid infections. The one-year loan prim...

Mainland China reported 2,310 new coronavirus cases for August 20 of which 602 were symptomatic and 1,708 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. That was up from 2,354 new cases a day earlier - 639 symptomatic and 1,715 as...

Billionaire Xiao Jianhua, who was taken away from the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong five years ago, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Shanghai court for financial crimes. It also fined his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate a record 55.03 b...

China's cyberspace watchdog on Friday said it wants to build an "affectionate" relationship between internet enterprises and the government, in the latest verbal assurance to an industry still on edge after regulations began tightening in 2020. The...

Police in Macau on Thursday said they are looking into four suspected cases of human trafficking involving people being lured to work in Southeast Asian countries. Detectives said one suspected victim left the SAR for Laos last month after he was o...

The Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that China will defend its territorial integrity and urged the United States not to make a wrong judgement. It comes as Washington agreed to initiate trade talks with Taiwan. At a press briefing in Beijing, for...

Sixteen people have been killed and dozens are missing in flash floods that have hit the northwest province of Qinghai, where a sudden massive downpour caused a river to change course, state media reported on Thursday. Broadcaster CCTV reported the ...

Macau officials announced on Thursday that incoming travellers will no longer have to prove they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to enter the SAR. However, arrivals will still need to have a negative PCR test result. Authorities sai...

Scorching temperatures in eastern China have pushed up egg prices because hens are laying fewer in a hotter-than-usual summer, local media reported. Major cities have recorded their hottest days ever this year, and the country's national observatory...

Beijing has announced a slew of perks to encourage families to have more babies, as the birth rate hit a record low and officials warned that the population will start to shrink by 2025. The world's most populous country has been grappling with a lo...

Beijing on Tuesday announced sanctions on a group of politicians in Taiwan, putting them on a list of "Taiwan independence diehards". The Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party's Central Committee said punitive measures were imposed on Hsiao Bi-k...

The People's Liberation Army said it has organised fresh military drills around Taiwan as Beijing denounced a visit to Taipei by a US congressional delegation. The PLA described the exercises as "combat readiness patrol and combat drills" in the sea...

Factory output and retail sales in China posted slower growth in July. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, industrial output was up 3.8 percent in July year on year, down slightly from a 3.9 percent increase in June. In the fi...

Sri Lanka's foreign ministry says the country has granted port access to a Chinese research vessel, the Yuan Wang 5, in spite of objections by India. The ship had originally been due to call at Sri Lanka's Hambantota port on Thursday. But Colombo a...

The mainland reported 2,604 new Covid-19 infections on August 13, of which 684 were symptomatic and 1,920 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. Among them were 623 locally-transmitted and 1,844 local asymptomatic infectio...

Four people were killed and nine others injured in a flash flood in Sichuan province on Saturday, local authorities said. Footage published by mainland media showed water rising rapidly in a river on the outskirts of Pengzhou city. Tourists who had...

Tech giant Huawei said on Friday its revenue fell in the first half of 2022 but new ventures in autos and other industries helped to offset a decline in smartphone sales under US sanctions. Revenue fell 5.9 percent from a year earlier to 301.6 billi...

At a meeting of the UN Security Council, China and the United States have both called for UN experts to be allowed urgently to visit the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine. China's ambassador, Zhang Jun said Be...