Organisers of the Beijing autoshow, which was scheduled to be held in late April, have reportedly postponed the event due to a recent flare up of Covid-19 cases. Auto China, the event's organisers, have yet to decide on a new date, sources told the...

China hopes Afghanistan will fulfill its commitment to not allowing any external forces to use its territory to oppose neighbours or harm the security of other nations, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday. In a statement published by the Forei...

Hundreds of people in rain gear and rubber boots searched muddy, forested hills in southern China on Thursday, looking for the second flight recorder from a jetliner that crashed with 132 people on board. No survivors have been found since the China...

The Solomon Islands has signed a policing deal with China and will send a proposal for a broader security agreement covering the military to its cabinet for consideration, an official of the Pacific island nation's government said on Thursday. The a...

The government in Macau on Thursday announced that from March 28, the quarantine period for inbound travellers from overseas will be shortened from 21 days to 14, bringing the rule in line with that for people arriving from Hong Kong. Health officia...

A mainland infectious disease expert on Thursday said allowing people to live a normal life during the Covid-19 pandemic is just as important a task as achieving the “dynamic zero” target. Writing on his Weibo social media account, Zhang Wenho...

Beijing on Wednesday announced a target to produce up to 200,000 tonnes per year of carbon-free green hydrogen by 2025. The mainland also aims to have about 50,000 hydrogen-fuelled vehicles by that year, the National Development and Reform Commissio...

Emergency workers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week with 132 people onboard. The black box device recovered is the plane's cockpit voice recorder, based on an early assessment, a Civ...

Authorities in Shanghai on Wednesday dismissed rumours that a lockdown would be imposed in the city, even as officials said anti-epidemic measures would be stepped up to contain the spread of Covid-19. The city reported four symptomatic coronavirus...

Buildings shook in Taipei early on Wednesday morning after two earthquakes hit Taiwan in quick succession. The China Earthquake Networks Centre says a 6.6-magnitude quake jolted waters off Taitung county at 1.41 am. Two minutes later, it was follow...

Mainland investigators looking into the nation's worst air disaster in a decade said on Tuesday evening no survivors have been found so far from the crash site of a China Eastern Airlines passenger jet in Guangxi. Speaking at a news briefing, Zhu Ta...

Mainland authorities on Tuesday reported an increase in Covid-19 infections, with Jilin province continuing to be hardest hit. In total, the National Health Commission reported 2,281 symptomatic local cases, compared with 1,947 the day before. The...

No survivors have been found as the search continued Tuesday of the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed a day earlier in a forested mountainous area in China's worst air disaster in a decade. “Wreckage of t...

Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun told employees on Monday that the plane manufacturer has offered the full support of its technical experts in the investigation of the crash of a China Eastern Airlines 737-800 aeroplane. Calhoun said in an email ...

China will give nearly 1 trillion yuan in tax rebates to small firms to shore up economic stability, state media CCTV quoted a cabinet meeting as saying on Monday. The State Council meeting, chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, resolved that China will al...

A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 which had 132 people on board crashed in mountains in Guangxi on Monday following a sudden descent from cruising altitude. Media reports said there was no sign of survivors and the airline said it was in mourn...

Mainland authorities on Monday reported an increase in Covid-19 infections, with Jilin province continuing to be hardest hit. In total, the National Health Commission said 1,947 confirmed symptomatic local cases were reported on Sunday, compared wi...

China stands on the right side of history over the Ukraine crisis as time will tell, and its position is in line with the wishes of most countries, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. "China will never accept any external coercion or pressure, and oppose...

Jilin has again accounted for the highest number of new local Covid-19 infections among all provinces. The National Health Commission confirmed 1,656 new local cases and 2,177 additional local asymptomatic infections on the mainland in the past day,...

Chinese authorities have reported the first two Covid-19 deaths in the mainland in more than a year, both coming in the northeastern province of Jilin as the country faces its worst case upsurge since the pandemic's outset. The deaths were the first...