Former president Jiang Zemin, who served as head of state from 1993 to 2003 during which China saw huge economic and social changes, has died at the age of 96. According to an announcement made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and ot...

Life in the Covid-hit mainland city of Zhengzhou was returning to normal on Wednesday thanks to a drop in the number of infections. The capital of Henan province is home to a vast Foxconn factory making Apple iPhones that was the scene of recent wor...

Factory activity in China contracted at a faster pace in November, an official survey showed on Wednesday, weighed down by Covid-19 curbs and softening global demand, underscoring the increasing pressure faced by the world's second-largest economy. ...

China's latest manned space mission blasted off on Tuesday evening, with three taikonauts embarking on a half-year-long mission that will see them officially finalise the construction of the Tiangong space station. The launch of the Shenzhou-15 too...

The People’s Liberation Army said on Tuesday it drove away a US guided-missile cruiser that "illegally intruded" into waters near the South China Sea's Nansha Qundao, a claim that the US Navy disputed. "The actions of the US military seriously vio...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the so-called "golden era" of relations with China was over, saying Beijing's systemic challenge to Britain's interests and values was growing more acute. In his first major foreign policy speech, Sunak sa...

The National Health Commission (NHC) on Tuesday reported a decline in new Covid-19 infections for November 28 to 38,645, after posting a record daily high of 40,347 cases a day earlier. Excluding imported infections, the NHC confirmed 38,421 new loc...

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...