Fearing Covid cases, lost profits and possible lockdowns, local governments and humming factories on the mainland are offering a slew of incentives to persuade workers not to go home for the Chinese New Year holiday in February. This period usually ...

The Trump administration added China's CNOOC to a US economic blacklist on Thursday, accusing the oil giant of helping Beijing intimidate neighbours in the South China Sea and ratcheting up tension days before US President-elect Joe Biden takes offic...

The wife of jailed mainland human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been allowed to see him for the first time since his arrest in 2018 – via videochat. Yu was arrested after he circulated a letter calling for reforms to the constitution, and was subs...

An international team of scientists led by the World Health Organisation arrived on Thursday in China's central city of Wuhan to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus that sparked the pandemic, state television said. The team arrived late...

China reported its biggest daily jump in new Covid-19 cases in more than 10 months as infections in northeastern Heilongjiang province nearly tripled, underscoring the growing threat ahead of a major national holiday. The National Health Commission ...

The United States is imposing a region-wide ban on all cotton and tomato products from western China's Xinjiang region over allegations that they are made with forced labour from detained Uighur Muslims, US Customs and Border Protection said on Wedne...

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday warned against anti-Chinese sentiment, despite renewing strong criticism about Beijing's actions and policies. "I don't want this country or this government to lurch into a position of unthinking s...

The US State Department has cancelled the planned Taiwan visit by its UN ambassador that has drawn strong opposition and a warning from China. The department announced it was cancelling all senior-level overseas travels, including Secretary of State...

The mainland has recorded the biggest daily jump in Covid cases in more than five months, despite four cities in lockdown, increased testing and other measures aimed at preventing another wave of infections in the world's second biggest economy. Mos...

A mainland lawyer hired by family members of the 12 Hongkongers captured in mainland waters by the Guangdong coast guard last year was forcibly dragged into a hearing on Wednesday to decide whether he should be stripped of his licence. Lu Siwei is a...

Brazilian authorities say the mainland-made CoronaVac vaccine has a 50 percent efficacy rate in late-stage trials. While it reaches the minimum target set by the World Health Organisation, it's well behind other vaccines produced by Moderna, at 94 ...

China's ambassador to the UN warned Britain on Tuesday not to interfere in its affairs, after a British minister criticised Beijing's treatment of its Uighur minority during a Security Council meeting. Zhang Jun slammed what he termed a baseless "po...

One of the mainland lawyers hired by family members of the 12 Hongkongers captured in mainland waters by the Guangdong coast guard last year has complained he was harassed by officials on Tuesday – a day before he faces a hearing that could see him...

Britain will introduce new rules for companies to try to prevent goods from China's Xinjiang region entering the supply chain, foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday, toughening London's response to allegations of forced labour. Addressing pa...

A World Health Organisation (WHO) team of international experts investigating the origin of the novel coronavirus will arrive in the Chinese city of Wuhan from Singapore on Thursday, a Chinese official said. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has ...

Lockdowns have been expanded and a major political conference postponed in a province next to Beijing that is the scene of China’s most serious recent Covid-19 outbreak. Residents of the city of Gu’an just south of Beijing have been ordered to s...

The World Health Organisation insisted on Monday that the international investigation into the Covid-19 pandemic's origins, set to start this week in China, was not looking for "somebody to blame". WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said the dela...

China condemned the United States on Monday for scrapping curbs on interactions with Taiwan officials, saying nobody could prevent the country's "re-unification", while Taiwan's foreign minister hailed the US move as a sign of "global partnership". ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts tasked with investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will arrive in China on January 14, mainland authorities said on Monday. Lack of authorisation from Beijing had delayed th...

The US lifting of restrictions on interactions with Taiwanese officials is a "big thing", Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Monday, describing it as a major boost for relations with the island's most important global backer. US Secretary of ...