Scores of people flooded mainland social media on Saturday to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of doctor Li Wenliang, a whistle blower who sought to raise awareness of early Covid-19 infections in Wuhan before dying from the virus himse...

China's maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said on Friday, some six months after the probe left Earth. The uncrewed Tianwen-1 took the picture at a distance of around 2.2 million...

China on Friday warned off a US warship sailing near contested islands in the South China Sea, Beijing said, the first such encounter made public since the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The USS John S. McCain "broke into China's Xisha territo...

Taiwan on Friday blamed "bullying" by Beijing for Guyana's decision to revoke a deal for the island to open a representative office in the South American country, saying it had tried without success to get Guyana to change its mind. Taiwan had alrea...

China is "firmly opposed" to Britain's decision to revoke the licence of state broadcaster CGTN, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. A ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, told a news briefing that Beijing urges the United Kingdom to "correct its mista...

China reported the fewest new Covid-19 cases in over a month, official data showed on Friday, suggesting that the latest wave of the disease is subsiding ahead of the key Lunar New Year holiday period set to begin next week. The National Health Comm...

Britain's media regulator, Ofcom, said on Thursday that it has revoked China Global Television Network's (CGTN) licence to broadcast in the UK In a statement, the regulator also said it expected to shortly conclude separate sanctions proceedings aga...

Guyana on Thursday abruptly terminated an agreement with Taiwan to open an office in the South American country, hours after Beijing urged Georgetown to "correct their mistake." Taiwan's foreign ministry earlier on Thursday said it had signed an agr...

The central government reported 30 new Covid-19 cases on the mainland on February 3, official data showed on Thursday, up slightly from 25 cases a day earlier. The National Health Commission said in a statement that 17 of the new cases were locally ...

The United States is "deeply disturbed" by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region and there must be serious consequences for atrocities committed t...

The US State Department said on Wednesday its support of a "one-China" policy over Taiwan has not changed. A statement issued by the Biden administration on January 23, its first Saturday in office, expressing strong support for Taiwan in the face o...

A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organisation on Wednesday visited a major virus research laboratory in China's central city of Wuhan, seeking clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. Driving through thick morning ...

China reported the fewest number of new Covid-19 cases for a single day in more than a month, official data showed on Wednesday, the latest indication that the current wave of the disease is subsiding ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday break. A tot...

Mainland authorities have revoked the licence of a lawyer who was engaged by the family of one of the 12 Hongkongers arrested and detained in Shenzhen while allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan. Ren Quanniu was appointed by the relatives of Wong Wai-y...

Mainland police arrested more than 80 people and confiscated over 3,000 fake doses of Covid-19 vaccine as part of a campaign to combat vaccine-related crimes, state news agency Xinhua reported. The suspects had been carrying out the ruse since at le...

A World Health Organisation-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic on Monday visited the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Hubei provinces, where the outbreak emerged in late 2019. The group of independent experts spe...

China launched a carbon trading system on Monday designed to drive down emissions, as the world's biggest polluter takes steps towards decarbonising its economy by 2060. The scheme lets provincial governments set pollution caps for big-power busines...

China has temporarily blocked entry to foreign nationals travelling from Canada, even those with current residency permits, the Chinese embassy in Ottawa said. "In view of the current Covid-19 situation and the need of epidemic prevention and contro...

A World Health Organisation-led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 visited Huanan market on Sunday, the now-shuttered wholesale seafood centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the new coronavirus was initially detected. The team...

China National Nuclear Corporation said its first nuclear power unit that uses Hualong One, a third-generation nuclear reactor, started commercial operations on Saturday. The reactor, located in the city of Fuqing city in China’s southeastern Fuji...