China has resolved the problem of game addiction among its youth, a report co-written by the country's top gaming industry association said, in remarks likely to be welcomed by the regulations-battered sector. The comment came from a report by the ...

Defence Minister Wei Fenghe on Tuesday told his US counterpart that Taiwan is at the core of China's core interests, and was a "red line" that must not be crossed. "The resolution of Taiwan is a matter for Chinese people, no external force has the ...

A fire has killed 38 people in a workshop in Anyang city in central China’s Henan province, state media said on Tuesday. Two other people were injured. Investigators said sparks from welding work appeared to have been the cause of Monday's fire....

China Tuesday reported 27,899 new local cases across the mainland, of which 2,145 were symptomatic and 25,754 were asymptomatic, up from 26,824 a day earlier. Beijing accounted for much of the increase in cases, with authorities there reporting 274 ...

Beijing warned on Monday that it was facing its most severe test of the Covid-19 pandemic, shutting businesses and schools in hard-hit districts and tightening rules for entering the city as infections ticked higher in the capital and nationally. Ch...

China reported 24,435 new Covid-19 infections on November 19, of which 2,267 were symptomatic and 22,168 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday. That compared with 24,473 new cases a day earlier – 2,137 symptomatic ...

President Xi Jinping on Friday said China would consider hosting the third Belt & Road Forum for International Cooperation next year, which would be the first staging of the event since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Belt & Road is Xi's signatu...

The number of new Covid-19 cases on the mainland has topped 25,000. The National Health Commission reported 2,276 locally transmitted and 22,853 asymptomatic cases on Thursday for a total of 25,129. That's up from 23,132 the day before. Guangdong ...

The leaders of China and Japan held their first face-to-face talks in three years on Thursday, after North Korea fired the latest in a record missile blitz that has sent nuclear fears soaring. President Xi Jinping flew in to the talks in Bangkok fro...

President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have had an exchange about the leaking of details of their meeting held on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia. The Foreign Ministry on Thursday described the exchange as a "n...

Activision Blizzard's game development and publishing unit said on Thursday it would suspend most Blizzard game services in mainland China once its current licencing agreements with NetEase end in January. Blizzard Entertainment said it had not reac...

The daily Covid-19 caseload on the mainland has topped 20,000 infections. According to the National Health Commission, there were 1,568 locally transmitted and 18,491 asymptomatic infections on Tuesday for a total of 20,059, up from 17,772 the day b...

President Xi Jinping called for soured relations with Australia to "improve" and "develop" on Tuesday, as the two countries held a first formal summit in more than five years. Xi said that previously warm ties between the two countries were "worth c...

President Xi Jinping on Tuesday asked wealthy G20 nations to contain the fallout from interest rate hikes, as the US Federal Reserve moves aggressively to fight inflation. "We must contain global inflation and resolve systematic risks in the economy...

President Xi Jinping has told his US counterpart Joe Biden that the world is big enough for both China and the United States to prosper, and stressed that differences between the two countries should not be an obstacle to growing relations. The two ...

Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden opened key talks on the Indonesian resort of Bali on Monday afternoon aimed at boosting China-US ties. The meeting was held ahead of the start of the G20 summit on Tuesday which both leaders are attending. The pa...

Beijing has unveiled sweeping measures to support the property sector, as regulators seek promote the “stable and healthy development” of the industry. The banking regulator and central bank on Friday issued a 16-point set of internal directives...

E-commerce giant Alibaba has not released full sales figures for its annual Singles Day event for the first time ever, as a cooling economy dampened demand. Launched in 2009, Singles Day is the world's largest shopping festival, dwarfing similar eve...

China on Friday eased some of its Covid-19 restrictions, including shortening quarantines by two days for inbound travellers and close contacts of infected people and removing a penalty for airlines for bringing in too many cases. The loosening of t...

Mainland authorities have stepped up Covid-19 lockdowns and other curbs to halt clusters from spreading as the nation's caseload soared to its highest since this year's Shanghai lockdown, with Beijing and Zhengzhou seeing record daily cases. China r...