Beijing-born Chloe Zhao was scrubbed from mainland social media on Monday as a nationalist backlash airbrushed out her remarkable achievement of becoming the first Asian woman to win the best director Oscar. Zhao also became the second woman ever to...

The Philippine coast guard is conducting drills in the South China Sea which an official said on Sunday were part of efforts to secure "our maritime jurisdiction" over the disputed waters. The exercises near the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island and ...

Mainland authorities reported 13 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, up from nine cases a day earlier. The National Health Commission said all of the new cases were imported infections originating from overseas. The number of new asymptomatic cases, whic...

China will hold discussions on building a defence system against near-Earth asteroids, a senior space agency official said on Saturday, as the country steps up its longer term space ambitions. Zhang Kejian, head of the China National Space Administr...

The United States will urge its Group of Seven allies to increase pressure on China over the use of forced labour in its northwestern Xinjiang province, home to the Muslim Uighur minority, a top White House official said on Friday. US President Joe ...

The Philippines has sent two new diplomatic protests to China over its failure to withdraw what it called on Friday "threatening" vessels that were massing in contested areas of the South China Sea. The Philippines has ramped up its rhetoric in rece...

The Chinese Embassy in London has condemned as a "flat-out lie" and an "outrageous smear" a vote in Britain's House of Commons describing Beijing's actions in Xinjiang as genocide. A spokesperson for the mission said, hours after the vote, that Brit...

China on Thursday said Australia's sudden scrapping of a Belt and Road Initiative deal risked "serious harm" to relations and warned of retaliatory actions against a country that insisted it would not be bullied. Canberra pulled the deal with Victor...

China's Belt and Road Initiative deals are "used for propaganda", a top Australian official said on Thursday as he defended Canberra's decision to scrap a state government's deals with Beijing. Australia on Wednesday overruled Victoria state's decis...

The European Union needs to engage with China despite many differences instead of opting for a more isolationist approach, Germany said on Wednesday. "In the EU, we have been describing China as a partner, competitor and systemic rival at the same t...

A Canadian judge has agreed to delay Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou's US extradition hearings for three months, according to a ruling read in court on Wednesday, handing her defence team a win. Meng, 49, was arrested at Vancouver Intern...

Tesla came under increased pressure in China on Wednesday from regulators and state media after Monday's protest by a disgruntled customer at the Shanghai auto show went viral and forced the electric car maker into a rare apology. The singling-out o...

Australia on Wednesday announced it would revoke a state government's deal to join China's Belt and Road Initiative, saying it was inconsistent with the nation's foreign policy. Canberra last year introduced new laws widely seen as targeting China t...

Residents of some parts of China that are grappling with tight supplies of coronavirus vaccines have not received their second doses in time, but the crunch will ease by June as production is being stepped up, a health official told state media. The...

China continued to welcome foreign journalists and discriminated against none, a Chinese envoy said on Wednesday, contradicting an Australian reporter's opinion that they were “barely tolerated.” Wang Xining, deputy head of the Chinese Embassy ...

President Xi Jinping will attend US President Joe Biden's virtual climate summit this week, Beijing said Wednesday, as the world's top polluting nations seek rare common ground despite wider political tensions. Biden has invited 40 world leaders in...

Tokyo police are investigating cyberattacks on about 200 Japanese companies and research organisations, including the country’s space agency, by a hacking group believed to be linked to the Chinese military, the government said on Tuesday. Police ...

President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that the global governance system should be made more equitable and fair, and that rules set by one country or some nations cannot be imposed on others. Building barriers and pushing for decoupling will harm othe...

Taiwan is seeking to acquire long-range, air-launched cruise missiles from the United States, a defence official said on Monday, as the Chinese-claimed island bolsters its forces in the face of increasing pressure from Beijing. While Taiwan is deve...

China could see its number of births slide below 10 million annually in the next five years if the government does not quickly abolish its policy of limiting families to two children, an expert was quoted in domestic media as saying. China's total p...