President and general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping has chaired a Politburo meeting to deliberate and make arrangements on rescue and relief efforts after a devastating mudslide hit Gyirong County in Xiz...

Nepali army helicopter rescue teams were working on Friday to rescue around 100 people trapped inside a tunnel at a hydropower project swamped by a devastating flood two days earlier. "Our focus is in search and rescue of people... some people are t...

China paused a rescue operation on Friday due to the high risk of renewed flooding in Xizang Autonomous Region where hundreds remain missing after a deadly mudslide hit the border region with Nepal. Broadcaster CCTV reported that a lake formed by im...

China and Nepal both warned on Thursday of fresh risks of flooding in the Himalayas as two lakes that have developed on either side of their border threaten to burst, in an area still grappling with this week's catastrophic flood. Search and rescue ...

Technology conglomerate Huawei plans to expand its artificial intelligence cooperation with mainland pharmaceutical firms into drug development and clinical practice, a senior executive said. The move highlights Huawei's ambitions to gain a foothold...

Premier Li Qiang has arrived at Gyirong Township in Xizang after it was hit by a massive mudslide a day earlier. Li is entrusted by President and general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Xi Jinping to lead a group of senio...

Nearly 100 Chinese nationals were missing in Nepal in ⁠the area affected by a massive mudslide and flooding, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. "In the disaster-stricken area on the Nepalese side, the number of Chinese citizens missing is near...

China and the United States should earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, remove disruptions and overcome obstacles to high-level exchanges between the two countries, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, according to...

Profits at China's industrial firms increased 17.6 percent year on year in the first seven months of the year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday. These industrial firms, with an annual main business revenue of at least 2...

Mainland authorities said three people died and 558 were still missing in the wake of a mudslide at the border between Nepal and China, state media reported on Thursday, citing local officials. "A press conference was held in Shigatse, Xizang, to re...

The death toll in Nepal from the flash floods near the border with China has reached 165, with 826 others still missing, a Nepalese government agency said on Thursday. Almost 500 foreigners were among those unaccounted for, police and tourism offici...

The death toll from flash floods in northern Nepal has reached 157, police said Wednesday night. Another 41 people injured in the floods are being treated in hospitals, according to a police statement. (Xinhua) Edited by Robert Kemp

President Xi Jinping has urged "all-out" search efforts, as well as stronger monitoring and early warning systems to prevent secondary disasters, after a mudslide on Wednesday caused "major casualties" in Gyirong County in Xizang Autonomous Region. ...

President Xi Jinping will attend an upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan. The Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that Xi will attend the SCO summit in Bishkek and pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt from Au...

China and India agreed on Tuesday to continue dialogue and seek a "fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable settlement" of their border issue after talks between senior diplomats in Beijing. The world's two most populous nations share a roughly 3,80...

China said on Tuesday it would safeguard its interests after Washington laid out plans for the "economic asphyxiation" of Iran. Almost six months into its war with Iran, the United States issued new penalties on some entities including in China and ...

China has set a dedicated chapter on autonomous vehicles in its draft revisions to the Road Traffic Safety Law, seeking to strengthen the legal framework for its rapidly developing autonomous driving sector. The draft defines autonomous vehicles and...

Widespread floods triggered by heavy rain from Typhoon Narra intensified on Tuesday across the nation's south, with homes and shops submerged and thousands of people relocated, while another ⁠storm system made its way towards the East China Sea. A...

Enflame Technology, one of China's leading AI chipmakers, will open share subscriptions on September 2 for its six billion yuan initial public offering on Shanghai's tech-heavy Star Market, a regulatory filing showed late on Monday. The chipmaker, b...

China has proposed formulating at least 100 key standards for the humanoid robot industry by 2028, according to a draft guideline from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The draft guideline for developing a national standard system...