A massive fire engulfed a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha, capital of Hunan, on Friday afternoon, state media reported. Dozens of storeys of the more than 200-metre tall China Telecom building "burned with great intensity", sending th...

President Xi Jinping on Friday called on Russia and other members of a regional grouping to support each other in preventing foreign powers from instigating "colour revolutions" in their countries. Delivering his speech at a Shanghai Cooperation Or...

President Xi Jinping met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, urging "political mutual trust" between the two sides during a regional security meeting in Central Asia. Xi and Erdogan met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperatio...

China's economy showed surprising resilience in August, with faster-than-expected growth in factory output and retail sales shoring up the recovery from the crippling effects of Covid curbs, heatwaves and a deepening property slump. The better-than-...

South Korea repatriated on Friday the remains of 88 Chinese soldiers killed during the Korean War, the first such ceremony since South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol took office in May. South Korean honour guards handed over wooden caskets with the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked President Xi Jinping on Thursday for his “balanced” approach to the Ukrainian crisis and acknowledged Beijing’s “questions and concerns” regarding the conflict. Speaking at the start of talks with X...

Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko has thanked China for its support during "difficult times" at a meeting with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan. "You have always been not only a so...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday said Beijing is willing to work with Moscow as “great powers” during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Uzbekistan. Xi, who is on his first trip outside China since the start of the Covid-19...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday met regional leaders in Uzbekistan ahead of the start of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit. In his meeting with his Tajik counterpart, Emomali Rahmon, Xi said China and Tajikistan need to continue to provi...

Guangzhou city has allowed property developers to reduce sale prices of homes by as much as 20 percent compared with 6 percent previously, financial news outlet Yicai reported on Thursday, in what would be the biggest cuts allowed by a top-tier mainl...

President Xi Jinping on Thursday hailed strong ties between China and Kyrgyzstan during his meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart Sadyr Zhaparov in Uzbekistan. Xi and other regional leaders are in Uzbekistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisa...

Seven companies have bid for new casino licences in the world's biggest gaming hub, with new contracts set to start at the beginning of 2023, Macau's government said on Wednesday. The government is expected to review the proposals and negotiate with...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first foreign trip abroad since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group. Xi’s trip un...

Mainland authorities say they'll release pork from the country's central reserves this week to maintain price stability, with the cost of the meat skyrocketing in recent months. The announcement on pork supplies follows the release of official figur...

Typhoon Muifa gained strength in the East China Sea on Wednesday forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights out of the financial hub of Shanghai and threatening the busy port shared by Ningbo and Zhoushan cities. Zhejiang province upgraded its ...

The number of trips taken over China's three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday shrank, with tourism revenue also falling, official data showed, as Covid-19 rules discouraged people from travelling. The number of trips made by tourists fell 16.7 percen...

Chinese actor Li Yifeng, one of the mainland’s biggest stars, has been detained on suspicion of soliciting prostitutes, state media reported. The actor was subsequently dropped as brand ambassador by multiple companies, including Italian luxury fi...

Beijing and Moscow said they will work to steer the international order in a more just and reasonable direction, after top diplomats from the two countries hailed Sino-Russian relations. Senior Chinese foreign policy advisor Yang Jiechi said that un...

A gaming consultant predicts Macau's casino industry could easily recover over the next two years and bring in twice the revenue of Las Vegas despite currently being in the "doldrums". Ben Lee from the Macau-based firm iGamix said he doesn't expect...

President Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan this week, the Foreign Ministry has announced. The visit will coincide with a summit of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) in the Uzbek city of Sarmarkan and mark the state leader's...