Canadian MPs have voted to label Beijing's treatment of China's Uighur minority as genocide, hours after Beijing claimed its policy in Xinjiang is a "shining example" of human rights progress. Rights groups believe at least one million Uighurs and o...

New home prices in China grew at a faster pace in January, driven by red-hot demand in the country's mega cities despite several rounds of government cooling measures. Average new home prices in 70 major cities increased 0.3% in January from a month...

China on Monday rejected "slanderous attacks" about conditions for Muslim Uighurs and other minorities living in its Xinjiang region, insisting that they enjoyed freedom of religion and labour rights. Activists and UN rights experts have said that a...

Mainland scientists are developing facial recognition technology so they can create an identity database of monkeys, Xinhua News Agency reports. A research team composed of scientists from Northwest University in Xi'an are hoping to use the technolo...

Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given "urgent and unfettered" access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the region. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will also mark Britain's return to the UN Human Rights C...

Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi called on the administration of US President Joe Biden to work with Beijing to reopen dialogue between the two countries to restore a bilateral relationship damaged under the presidency of Donald Trump. Wang, a Chines...

India said on Sunday that its troops, along with their Chinese counterparts, had completed a pullback from a disputed part of their Himalayan border after months of heightened tensions. The nuclear-armed neighbours fought a border war in 1962 and ha...

China on Sunday reported seven new Covid-19 cases on the mainland for February 20, compared with eight cases a day earlier, the health authority said. All the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement. Th...

Dramatic footage released by Chinese state media purportedly shows deadly clashes between troops at the Indian border last year – a rare insight into violence at the tense, remote frontier. China's defence ministry on Friday named four soldiers k...

Taiwan's air force scrambled on Friday after eight Chinese fighter aircraft flew into the southwestern part of its air defence zone in another display of stepped-up military activity around the island. Beijing said it is responding to what it calls ...

Beijing on Friday named four soldiers killed in a brawl with Indian forces last year, the first Chinese confirmation of deaths from the border clash that also killed at least 20 Indian soldiers. The Chinese soldiers "sacrificed themselves" during th...

China has dismantled dozens of structures and moved vehicles to empty out entire camps along a disputed Himalayan border, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off since last summer, satellite images released on Wednesday show. ...

China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, US President Joe Biden has warned, responding to queries at a televised event on Beijing's handling of Muslim minorities in its far western region of Xinjiang. President Xi Jinping has drawn global...

China reported nine new coronavirus cases in the mainland for February 14, compared to seven a day earlier, the health commission said on Monday. Of the cases, eight were imported infections originating overseas, while one case was recorded in Hebei...

China reported eight new coronavirus cases on the mainland for February 12, compared to 12 cases a day earlier, the health commission said on Saturday. All of the new cases were imported infections, the National Health Commission said in a statement...

All hypotheses are still open in the World Health Organisation's search for the origins of Covid-19, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Friday. A WHO-led mission in China said this week that it was not looking further...

There's been swift condemnation from both the United States and Britain after Beijing's broadcasting regulator banned BBC World News from Chinese territory for what state media described as "serious content violations". RTHK has also stopped its li...

Beijing's broadcasting regulator said in the early hours of Friday that it's banned BBC World News from Chinese territory for what state media described as "serious content violations" and RTHK has also decided to drop its live relay of the broadcast...

People thronged the streets of Wuhan this week, as they made final preparations for the Lunar New Year to bring the curtain down on a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic that killed thousands. The outbreak, which first emerged in Wuhan in late 2...

China and India have agreed to pull back troops from a bitterly contested lake area high in the western Himalayas, the Indian defence minister said on Thursday, in a breakthrough after a months-long standoff on the disputed border. Rajnath Singh tol...