G7 nations must overhaul global trade rules to stop powerful countries using economic coercion, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday ahead of a meeting of the group's leaders in Britain. As Australia's shadow trade war with its...

A professor killed the Communist Party secretary at the school of mathematics at China's prestigious Fudan University, police and school authorities said. Police identified the suspect in custody as a 39-year-old professor whose surname is Jiang, sa...

The US Senate voted 68-32 on Tuesday to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country's ability to compete with Chinese technology. The desire for a hard line in dealings with China is one of the few bipartisan sentiments i...

The United States will target China with a new "strike force" to combat unfair trade practices, the Biden administration said on Tuesday, as it rolled out findings of a review of access to critical products, from semiconductors to electric-vehicle ba...

China on Tuesday warned the United States against pursuing a trade deal with Taiwan after Washington said it would start negotiations with the island. Chinese social media erupted with fury at the weekend over a visit by US senators to Taipei where...

A herd of wild elephants in southwestern China have been captured on camera taking a breather from a 500-kilometre march of chaos that has caused more than US$1 million in damage. Chinese state television has launched a 24-hour live feed of the her...

Taiwan's health minister warned on Tuesday of further delays to getting more Covid-19 vaccines but said the government was doing all it could to get them, as he reported a stabilisation of new infections. Taiwan has been struggling to speed up its v...

Taiwan will extend its Covid-19 restrictions for another two weeks until June 28 and schools will remain shut until the summer vacation, the government said on Monday, adding that its outbreak has not yet stabilised. After months of relative safety...

Guangzhou on Sunday reported seven new local confirmed Covid-19 patients for June 5, bringing the city's total since May 21 to 80 amid a resurgent outbreak. Overall, China reported 30 new mainland coronavirus cases for June 5, up from 24 a day earl...

A man armed with a knife killed six people and wounded 14 others in a city in eastern China, state media reported. The attack occurred on Saturday afternoon in the streets of Anqing, Anhui province, 430 kilometres west of Shanghai, state television ...

The United States will donate 750,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan as part of the country's plan to share shots globally, US Senator Tammy Duckworth said on Sunday, offering a much-needed boost to the island's fight against the pandemic. Taiwan ...

Taiwan is in talks with US companies about making their Covid-19 vaccines, following similar talks with European firms, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Saturday. Taiwan, like much of the world, has been trying to speed up its vaccination pro...

Two people died and six were missing after an accident in a coal mine in central China, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday. The "accidental outburst" occurred at a coal mine run by Henan Hebi Coal and Electricity Co in the late afternoon on...

China has approved emergency use of Sinovac Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine in people aged between three and 17, its chairman Yin Weidong told state TV late on Friday. China's mass vaccination drive, which administered 723.5 million doses of vaccines as ...

China on Friday ripped into the United States' human rights record and told Washington to "look in the mirror" after America's top diplomat said he would honour those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Beijing urged the United States to "face ...

Tokyo is donating more than one million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines to Taiwan, Japan's foreign minister announced Friday, as Taipei struggles to secure jabs, accusing Beijing of interference. "We have received requests from variou...

The United States said on Thursday it stands "with the people of China" in their fight for human rights on the eve of the anniversary of Beijing's deadly Tiananmen crackdown, amid heightened tensions between the two economic giants. Secretary of Sta...

China on Thursday blasted Hungarian politicians as being "beneath contempt" after Budapest renamed streets over human rights flashpoints from Hong Kong to Tibet in protest against a planned branch of a top Chinese university. The sprawling project f...

Joe Biden intends to this week overhaul a list of Chinese firms that US investors are allowed to own shares in, as the president re-evaluates the world powers' post-Trump relationship while maintaining pressure on Beijing. Donald Trump prohibited Am...

China on Wednesday said it would suspend all sports competitions that lack national safety standards, after extreme weather at an ultramarathon killed 21 runners and sparked calls for more regulation. Beijing's General Administration of Sport said t...