President Xi Jinping said on Monday that China is making every effort to search for Chinese and foreign nationals who are missing in last week's mudslide disaster in Xizang. The president made the remarks when he met with his Kyrgyz counterpart Sady...

The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector improved in August, rising 0.6 percentage points from the month before to 49.8, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. The composite PMI output index rose fr...

Nepal's scenic Chitwan district, known for its forests and rivers, has become the site of mass burials for hundreds of unidentified victims whose bodies were swept away by the torrent that devastated the Himalayan region days ago. In the plains, nea...

President Xi Jinping on Sunday said that cooperation between China and Kyrgyzstan has ushered in a golden period of rapid development, as he landed in Bishkek for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 and a state visit to the count...

Hong Kong's top representative to the National People's Congress welcomed recent amendments to the national Lawyers Law, saying legal professionals from the two SARs can take on a more prominent role in legal and arbitration services in the Greater B...

President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Sunday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 in Bishkek, and pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt upon the invitation of President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan and President Abdel Fa...

A total of 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries have been identified as unaccounted for after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, local authorities said Sunday. The fi...

Sixteen people have been confirmed dead and 546 others remain missing as of 6pm on Saturday after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on August 26, according to the regional governmen...

China's package of assistance to Nepal is being implemented, including emergency cash assistance and humanitarian aid, with some relief supplies set to arrive in Kathmandu soon, said Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his phone conversation with Nepali ...

Central authorities have dispatched ⁠five tunnel experts from Xizang Autonomous Region to Nepal ⁠for flood-related rescue ⁠work, according to Xinhua news agency. The assistance ⁠was sent via helicopter on Saturday, at ‌the request of the N...

Travellers using e-Channels at the redeveloped Huanggang port would be able to use either their Hong Kong ID card or the home-return permit to make the crossing. The announcement by Secretary for Security Chris Tang came as the government conducted...

President Xi Jinping will head to Central Asia's Kyrgyzstan on Monday for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). He will be joined by around a dozen other heads of states, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian l...

Researchers have completed a laser communications test between Earth and the Moon that successfully verifies two-way high-speed laser link capabilities in orbit, the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilisation of the Chinese Academy of Sc...

Rescuers in China and Nepal are still battling on Saturday to locate thousands of people missing following Wednesday's deadly mudslide and flood in the border region. The number of missing soared to nearly 3,000 as emergency teams said they had now ...

Seven people had been killed, and 554 others remained missing, while two local villagers had been rescued as of 1 am on Saturday after a mudslide struck the Gyirong Port along the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, acco...

Mainland authorities have assessed that risks from an overflowing lake formed after a glacier collapse that triggered catastrophic flooding on the nation's border with Nepal had become manageable by Friday afternoon, allowing suspended rescue operati...

Search and rescue intensified on Friday at the mudslide-stricken border port of Gyirong in the southwestern Xizang Autonomous Region as rescue personnel raced against time to save lives. As of 10am on Friday, a total of 681 fire and rescue personnel...

President and general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping has chaired a Politburo meeting to deliberate and make arrangements on rescue and relief efforts after a devastating mudslide hit Gyirong County in Xiz...

Nepali army helicopter rescue teams were working on Friday to rescue around 100 people trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower project swamped by a devastating flood two days earlier. "Our focus is in search and rescue of people... some people are t...

China paused a rescue operation on Friday due to the high risk of renewed flooding in Xizang Autonomous Region where hundreds remain missing after a deadly mudslide hit the border region with Nepal. Broadcaster CCTV reported that a lake formed by im...