President Joe Biden sent an unofficial delegation of former US officials to Taiwan on Wednesday in a signal of support for the democratic island as it faces increasingly hostile moves by Beijing. Former senator Christopher Dodd and former deputy sec...

US climate envoy John Kerry will visit China this week in the first trip there by the Biden administration, which says it will find areas of cooperation with Beijing despite soaring tensions on multiple fronts. The former secretary of state will vis...

China reported nine new Covid-19 cases on April 12, down from 16 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Tuesday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that one of the new cases was a local infection reporte...

The government in Macau on Monday responded to citywide criticism of its latest giveaway plan by increasing the handouts from 4,800 patacas per resident to 8,000, and scrapping a controversial requirement for residents to spend first before receiving...

Thirteen people who describe themselves as "victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television" are urging European satellite operator Eutelsat to reconsider carrying Chinese channels CGTN and CCTV4. The letter published by human rights w...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday the United States is concerned about China's aggressive actions against Taiwan and warned it would be a "serious mistake" for anyone to try to change the status quo in the Western Pacific by force. ...

Rescuers were working on Sunday to reach 21 workers trapped in a coal mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region after flooding cut power underground and disrupted communications, state media reported. The accident happened in Fengyuan coal mine in H...

China accused the US of causing humanitarian disasters through foreign military interventions in a report on Friday that was the latest broadside by Beijing amid increasingly contentious relations with the Biden administration. The report from the g...

The US Commerce Department said on Thursday it was adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to an American economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts. The department is adding Tianjin Phytium Information Technology, Shanghai High-...

China accused the United States of "politicising sports" on Wednesday, after Washington said it would discuss calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics with its allies after growing pressure to shun the Winter Games on human rights grounds. Republican ...

Two Uyghur former government officials in Xinjiang have been handed death sentences for carrying out "separatist activities", a court said, as Beijing comes under increasing fire for its actions towards minority groups in the region. Shirzat Bawudun...

The truck which collided with a Taiwanese express train last week killing 50 people slid onto the tracks only around one minute before the accident happened, the government said on Tuesday, as it released dramatic footage of the impact. The packed t...

Domestic tourism in the mainland almost returned to pre-pandemic levels, new data showed on Tuesday, though authorities say it will take some time yet before spending levels go back to normal. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said 102 million mai...

Beijing's navy confirmed late on Monday that a carrier group is exercising near Taiwan and such drills will become regular in a further escalation of tensions near the island. Taiwan has complained of an increase in mainland military activity near i...

China reported its biggest daily jump in new Covid-19 cases in more than two months, as a city on the border with Myanmar in southwestern Yunnan province accounted for all new local cases. Ruili's local government put residents in its urban area und...

A maintenance worker whose runaway truck sparked Taiwan's worst rail disaster in recent decades made a tearful apology on Sunday as investigators said the train driver had little time to react to the collision. At least 50 people were killed and mor...

The Philippines' defence chief said on Sunday that China was looking to occupy more areas in the South China Sea, citing the continued presence of Chinese vessels that Manila believes are manned by militias in disputed parts of the strategic waterway...

China's top anti-graft watchdog said on Sunday a former chairman and head of the Communist Party at state defence giant China North Industries Group Co (Norinco Group) is under investigation for suspected, undisclosed disciplinary violations. The Ce...

Grieving relatives of those who died in Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades held prayers at the crash site on Saturday as salvage crews worked to remove the tangled mass of wrecked carriages. Officials said Friday's devastating collision, which...

Taiwanese prosecutors have sought an arrest warrant for a construction site manager whose truck is believed to have caused a train accident in which at least 50 people died. The crash, Taiwan's worst rail accident in seven decades, occurred after an...