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...

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...

China and Nepal both warned on Thursday of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas as two lakes that have developed on either side of their border threaten to burst, in an area still grappling with this week's catastrophic flood. Search and rescue ...

Technology conglomerate Huawei plans to expand its artificial intelligence cooperation with mainland pharmaceutical firms into drug development and clinical practice, a senior executive said. The move highlights Huawei's ambitions to gain a foothold...

Premier Li Qiang has arrived at Gyirong Township in Xizang after it was hit by a massive mudslide a day earlier. Li is entrusted by President and general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping to lead a group of senio...

Nearly 100 Chinese nationals were missing in Nepal in ⁠the area affected by a massive mudslide and flooding, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. "In the disaster-stricken area on the Nepalese side, the number of Chinese citizens missing is near...

China and the United States should earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, remove disruptions and overcome obstacles to high-level exchanges between the two countries, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, according to...

Profits at China's industrial firms increased 17.6 percent year on year in the first seven months of the year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday. These industrial firms, with an annual main business revenue of at least 2...

Mainland authorities said three people died and 558 were still missing in the wake of a mudslide at the border between Nepal and China, state media reported on Thursday, citing local officials. "A press conference was held in Shigatse, Xizang, to re...

The death toll in Nepal from the flash floods near the border with China has reached 165, with 826 others still missing, a Nepalese government agency said on Thursday. Almost 500 foreigners were among those unaccounted for, police and tourism offici...

The death toll from flash floods in northern Nepal has reached 157, police said Wednesday night. Another 41 people injured in the floods are being treated in hospitals, according to a police statement. (Xinhua) Edited by Robert Kemp

President Xi Jinping has urged "all-out" search efforts, as well as stronger monitoring and early warning systems to prevent secondary disasters, after a mudslide on Wednesday caused "major casualties" in Gyirong County in Xizang Autonomous Region. ...

President Xi Jinping will attend an upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan. The Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that Xi will attend the SCO summit in Bishkek and pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt from Au...

China and India agreed on Tuesday to continue dialogue and seek a "fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement" of their border issue after talks between senior diplomats in Beijing. The world's two most populous nations share a roughly 3,80...