The trial of Canadian citizen Michael Spavor, detained by China since late 2018 on suspicion of espionage, ended on Friday after closed-court hearing of around two hours, in a case embroiled in a wider diplomatic spat between Washington and Beijing. ...

Taiwan is drilling wells, seeding clouds and beseeching a gold-faced sea goddess to help the sub-tropical island ride out its most serious drought in about half a century, after rain-soaking typhoons failed to make landfall last year. The drought is...

China was expected to open the first trial Friday for one of two Canadians who have been held for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive. Canada said its consular officials were not g...

Chinese authorities on Thursday summoned 11 tech companies including Tencent, Alibaba, and TikTok parent ByteDance, for talks on internet security – as regulators step up scrutiny on the country's high-flying firms. Officials have in recent month...

A top Taiwanese official issued a plea on Thursday for people to stop changing their name to "salmon" after dozens made the unusual move to take advantage of a restaurant promotion. In a phenomenon that has been dubbed "Salmon Chaos" by local media,...

French Senators are free to meet whomever they wish when they travel, the country's foreign ministry says, after the Chinese embassy in Paris warned against lawmakers meeting officials during an upcoming visit to Taiwan. China's ambassador in Februa...

China will put two Canadians on trial within days following their arrests more than two years ago in apparent retaliation for the detention of a top Huawei executive, the Canadian government said on Wednesday. Relations between Beijing and Ottawa ha...

Taiwan's newly-appointed defence minister said on Wednesday that Taipei has strengthened deployments in the disputed South China Sea and that the United States has approved the export of sensitive technology to equip Taiwan's new submarine fleet. Sp...

China warned the European Union on Tuesday against planned EU sanctions for human rights violations, saying Beijing would not yield if Brussels interfered in its internal affairs. EU ambassadors are expected on Wednesday to give the go-ahead for san...

The encrypted messaging app Signal, recommended by Tesla's Elon Musk, appeared to have been blocked on the mainland on Tuesday, closing off one of the last US social media platforms still freely available in the country. Users of the free app, which...

The Biden administration has told China that normalising relations with Australia is a precondition to Washington taking any substantial step towards improving relations with Beijing, a senior US official said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Sy...

Activity by the US Navy in its campaign to challenge China's efforts to restrict transit in the South China Sea and in the Taiwan Strait increased sharply over the past two years. According to US Navy data, war ships maneuvered close to artificial i...

Beijing will give United Nations peacekeeping troops 300,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine, the Chinese diplomatic mission to the UN said on Monday, bolstering the 200,000 doses already pledged by India to protect 100,000 soldiers and police officers ...

A driver employed by China's largest ride-hailing firm, Didi Chuxing, killed a passenger by ramming his car into the man after a quarrel, the firm said in a post on social media on Monday. Police in the southeastern city of Fuzhou said the driver ha...

China’s capital and a wide swath of the country's north were enveloped on Monday in the worst sandstorm in a decade, leading to the cancellation of hundreds of flights. Skyscrapers in the centre of Beijing appeared to drop from sight amid the dust...

RTHK sources say a number of top Beijing officials will attend a seminar on changes to Hong Kong's electoral system to be held at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai on Monday. It's understood that three deputy directors of the Hong Ko...

A hotel that bills itself as the world's first "polar bear hotel" has opened in China's far northeastern Heilongjiang province, drawing both guests and criticism for its central feature: live polar bears. The Polar Bear Hotel, part of the Harbin Pol...

Journalists at Macau’s largest broadcaster, TDM, have demanded a meeting with the station’s management, after they were ordered to stop putting out news and opinions that aren't in tune with the authorities, including on matters relating to Hong ...

China will "soon" hold its first trial for Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who have been held in China since late 2018 and who were formally charged with espionage in June 2020, the Global Times reported, citing an unnamed source. The t...

Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday defended the government's target for more than 6 percent economic growth this year, saying it is "not low", and policies would not be dramatically loosened to chase higher growth. The target was well below analysts exp...