Vice President Wang Qishan is on Monday attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as the special representative of President Xi Jinping. He's among hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries attending the state funeral at Westminster Abbey in Londo...

The Foreign Ministry said on Monday it has lodged "stern representations" with the United States after US President Joe Biden said American forces would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by the mainland, his most explicit statement so far on th...

The victims of a bus crash which killed 27 people and injured a further 20 in southwest China's Guizhou province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for Covid reasons, local media reported. The accident took plac...

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island's weather bureau said, derailing train carriages and causing a convenience store to collapse. The weather bureau said the epicentre was in Taitun...

A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 shook southeastern Taiwan on Saturday but there were no immediate reports of damage. Taiwan authorities said the quake had a depth of 7.3 km with its epicentre in Taitung county, a sparsely populated part of the ...

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 ...