Taiwan reported another rise in domestic Covid-19 cases on Saturday, but the health minister said the trend remained stable with new infections concentrated in the northern part of the island in and around Taipei. After months of keeping the pandemi...

China reported 10 new Covid-19 cases on May 21, down from 24 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that nine of the new cases were imported infections. The n...

A series of strong earthquakes rattled northwest and southwest China, leaving at least three people dead, local officials and seismologists said early on Saturday. Both Qinghai province in the northwest on the Tibetan plateau and Yunnan province in ...

Australia has asked for its officials to be given access to the trial of a Chinese-Australian blogger detained for two years in Beijing on spying charges when he goes to court on May 27. In a statement, foreign minister Marise Payne confirmed that A...

China’s internet watchdog said on Friday it had found Bytedance’s Douyin, Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn and 102 other apps were engaged in improper collection and use of data and ordered them to fix the problem. The Cyberspace Administration of China...

Taiwan's health minister said on Friday that he had asked the United States for help in obtaining Covid-19 vaccines, as another 312 confirmed cases were reported as part of the island's worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic. Taiwan's ba...

A skyscraper in southern China that caused panic when it started to shake earlier this week will stay closed for the foreseeable future, the owner of the building said, as the cause of the swaying is investigated. The 300-metre SEG Plaza in the sout...

Taiwan reported 286 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, a slight increase on the previous day that gave the health minister cause for a sliver of optimism that the situation was not dramatically worsening. Having been held up as an example of how to st...

China on Thursday branded the United States an "out-and-out security risk creator" in the South China Sea, after an American warship sailed through waters near the disputed Spratly Islands. Tensions in maritime waters claimed by both China and many...

China has postponed the planned launch Thursday of a rocket carrying supplies for its new space station due to technical reasons, state media said. The China Manned Space Agency gave no details on what the reasons were, and said only that a new laun...

China's football team warmed up for a set of crucial World Cup qualifiers by receiving "patriotic education" and learning about the history of the ruling Communist Party. President Xi Jinping has grand ambitions for China to host and even win a foot...

Israel’s Embassy in China is protesting against what it describes as “blatant anti-Semitism” on a programme aired by the overseas channel of state broadcaster CCTV discussing the ongoing violence in Gaza and elsewhere. In a tweet, the embassy ...

China accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait after a US warship again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from the mainland. The US Navy's 7th Fleet said the Arleig...

One of China's tallest skyscrapers was evacuated on Tuesday after it began to shake, sending panicked shoppers scampering to safety in the southern city of Shenzhen. The near 300-metre high SEG Plaza inexplicably began to shake at around 1pm, prompt...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has banned his cabinet from speaking out in public on the South China Sea dispute, after key ministers engaged in a war of words with Beijing. Tensions between Manila and Beijing over the waterway – which China...

Taiwan is in talks with the United States for a share of the Covid-19 vaccine doses President Joe Biden plans to send abroad, Taipei's top official in Washington said, as the island deals with a rare spike in domestic cases. Biden said the United St...

Taiwan launched island-wide power cuts on Monday evening following a spike in demand amid a heatwave and drought and failure at a power plant, the second such outage in the global tech hub in a week. Phased blackouts hit Taiwan, which major chip mak...

A surge of coronavirus infections in Taiwan, one of the world's Covid-19 mitigation success stories, has left it scrambling to get vaccines as its stock of 300,000 doses starts running out with only about 1% of its 23 million people vaccinated. Taiw...

Taiwan appealed to people to avoid panic buying of items such as instant noodles and toilet paper as new curbs on gatherings and movement took effect to rein in the spread of Covid-19 during a spike in domestic infections. Taiwan raised its coronavi...

China has cancelled attempts to climb Mount Everest from its side of the world’s highest peak because of fears of importing coronavirus cases from neighbouring Nepal. The closure was confirmed in a notice from China’s General Administration of S...