The Shenzhou-15 spacecraft will blast off to the Tiangong space station at 11:08 pm Beijing time on November 29, the China Manned Space Agency said on Monday. The Shenzhou-15 mission will wrap up the last stage of the space station's construction, a...

The city of Beijing said it will improve anti-Covid measures and ban the use of barricades for buildings in closed-off residential compounds. Liu Xiaofeng, deputy head of the Beijing municipal disease prevention and control centre, told a press conf...

Mainland authorities on Sunday reported 39,303 new Covid cases, including 3,648 symptomatic infections and 35,858 cases with no symptoms. Guangdong province accounted for 1,386 of the symptomatic cases, followed by Beijing’s 747 infections and Ch...

Tsai Ing-wen resigned as head of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan on Saturday after her strategy to frame local elections as showing defiance to Beijing failed to pay off and win public support. The elections for mayors, county chief...

Macau's government said on Saturday its six incumbent casino operators would be given new licences to operate in the world's biggest gambling hub from January, with Malaysian operator Genting missing out on a spot. The highly anticipated announcemen...

Mainland authorities on Saturday said they had launched an investigation into former national football coach Li Tie, with the ex-Premier League player suspected of "serious violations of the law". A statement on the website of a provincial governmen...

Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been jailed for 13 years by a mainland court after he was found guilty of crimes including rape. The court in Chaoyang district in Beijing said the celebrity, also known as Wu Yifan, was sentenced to 11 years an...

Tesla is recalling more than 80,000 China-made and imported cars produced from as early as 2013, for software and seat belt issues, a statement by the Chinese market regulator revealed on Friday. The US-based electric car maker has recalled 67,698 M...

An apartment fire on Thursday in the western region of Xinjiang killed 10 people and injured nine, state broadcaster CCTV reported, saying an electric socket extension was the cause. The fire started on Thursday night on the 15th floor of a high-ris...

The Chinese mainland reported 32,695 new local cases of Covid-19 for Thursday, another new record high, of which 3,041 were symptomatic and 29,654 were asymptomatic, up from 31,444 total cases a day earlier. There were no deaths, compared with one t...

The National Health Commission has reported the highest number of daily Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic nearly three years ago. Excluding imported cases, the number of new local cases was 31,444 on Wednesday, up from 28,883 the day be...

Mainland property shares jumped on Thursday, after the country's biggest commercial banks agreed to provide billions of dollars in credit lines to cash-strapped developers, adding to recent regulatory support measures to lift the sector out of a deep...

Mainland health authorities reported 28,883 new local Covid infections for November 22, of which 2,641 were symptomatic and 26,242 were asymptomatic, which officials count separately. The toll is up from 27,899 a day earlier, but there were no new d...

China has resolved the problem of game addiction among its youth, a report co-written by the country's top gaming industry association said, in remarks likely to be welcomed by the regulations-battered sector. The comment came from a report by the ...

Defence Minister Wei Fenghe on Tuesday told his US counterpart that Taiwan is at the core of China's core interests, and was a "red line" that must not be crossed. "The resolution of Taiwan is a matter for Chinese people, no external force has the ...

A fire has killed 38 people in a workshop in Anyang city in central China’s Henan province, state media said on Tuesday. Two other people were injured. Investigators said sparks from welding work appeared to have been the cause of Monday's fire....

China Tuesday reported 27,899 new local cases across the mainland, of which 2,145 were symptomatic and 25,754 were asymptomatic, up from 26,824 a day earlier. Beijing accounted for much of the increase in cases, with authorities there reporting 274 ...

Beijing warned on Monday that it was facing its most severe test of the Covid-19 pandemic, shutting businesses and schools in hard-hit districts and tightening rules for entering the city as infections ticked higher in the capital and nationally. Ch...

China reported 24,435 new Covid-19 infections on November 19, of which 2,267 were symptomatic and 22,168 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday. That compared with 24,473 new cases a day earlier – 2,137 symptomatic ...

President Xi Jinping on Friday said China would consider hosting the third Belt & Road Forum for International Cooperation next year, which would be the first staging of the event since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Belt & Road is Xi's signatu...