A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organisation on Wednesday visited a major virus research laboratory in China's central city of Wuhan, seeking clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. Driving through thick morning ...

China reported the fewest number of new Covid-19 cases for a single day in more than a month, official data showed on Wednesday, the latest indication that the current wave of the disease is subsiding ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday break. A tot...

Mainland authorities have revoked the licence of a lawyer who was engaged by the family of one of the 12 Hongkongers arrested and detained in Shenzhen while allegedly trying to flee to Taiwan. Ren Quanniu was appointed by the relatives of Wong Wai-y...

Mainland police arrested more than 80 people and confiscated over 3,000 fake doses of Covid-19 vaccine as part of a campaign to combat vaccine-related crimes, state news agency Xinhua reported. The suspects had been carrying out the ruse since at le...

A World Health Organisation-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic on Monday visited the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Hubei provinces, where the outbreak emerged in late 2019. The group of independent experts spe...

China launched a carbon trading system on Monday designed to drive down emissions, as the world's biggest polluter takes steps towards decarbonising its economy by 2060. The scheme lets provincial governments set pollution caps for big-power busines...

China has temporarily blocked entry to foreign nationals travelling from Canada, even those with current residency permits, the Chinese embassy in Ottawa said. "In view of the current Covid-19 situation and the need of epidemic prevention and contro...

A World Health Organisation-led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 visited Huanan market on Sunday, the now-shuttered wholesale seafood centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the new coronavirus was initially detected. The team...

China National Nuclear Corporation said its first nuclear power unit that uses Hualong One, a third-generation nuclear reactor, started commercial operations on Saturday. The reactor, located in the city of Fuqing city in China’s southeastern Fuji...

The World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of Covid-19 during a mission that has been tightly controlled by its Chinese hosts visited a hospital on Saturday in the central city of Wuhan that treated early coronavirus patients. ...

A Canadian judge on Friday rejected Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's request to relax her bail conditions as she fights against extradition to the US on fraud and conspiracy charges. British Columbia Supreme Court Justice William Ehrcke ruled that th...

China on Friday executed a former top banker accused of taking US$260 million worth of bribes, other forms of corruption and bigamy, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of Huarong – one of China's largest state-contro...

Experts from the World Health Organization met Chinese officials on Friday ahead of their first site visits in Wuhan for a coronavirus origins probe which will take in a food market presumed to be "ground zero" of the pandemic. The fieldwork was set...

A team of experts from the World Health Organization left quarantine in Wuhan on Thursday to begin a heavily scrutinised probe into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, after Washington urged a "robust and clear" investigation. The group started a ...

A senior New Zealand minister advised Australia to adopt his country's softly-softly approach to China on Thursday, a rare public disagreement between the neighbours on how to deal with a more assertive Beijing. The comments – which closely echo C...

The United States rejects China's maritime claims in the South China Sea beyond what it is permitted under international law and stands with Southeast Asian nations resisting its pressure, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. Blin...

Relatives of Wuhan's coronavirus dead on Wednesday said Chinese authorities have deleted their social media group and are pressuring them to keep quiet while a World Health Organization team is in the city to investigate the pandemic's origins. Scor...

Chinese military exercises near Taiwan are a "solemn warning to external forces", Beijing said on Wednesday, after the new US government expressed strong support for the self-ruled island. China views democratic Taiwan as part of its territory that ...

China has administered about 22.8 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, a health official said on Wednesday, as the country steps up its campaign ahead of next month's Lunar New Year holidays and the accompanying flurry of travel. The world's most pop...

China said on Tuesday that it will conduct military exercises in the South China Sea this week, just days after Beijing bristled at a US aircraft carrier group's entry into the disputed waters. A notice issued by the country's Maritime Safety Admini...