Taiwanese prosecutors have sought an arrest warrant for a construction site manager whose truck is believed to have caused a train accident in which at least 50 people died. The crash, Taiwan's worst rail accident in seven decades, occurred after an...

At least 50 people were killed in Taiwan on Friday when a packed train collided with a vehicle on the tracks and then derailed inside a tunnel, in the island's worst railway accident in decades. Officials said the devastating collision was caused by...

The European Union on Friday condemned the "harassment" of foreign journalists in China after a BBC correspondent left the country in the face of legal threats and pressure from authorities. John Sudworth said he had moved to Taiwan -- along with hi...

At least 51 people were killed and 72 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island's worst rail disaster in at least four decades. The train, an express travelling from Taipei to Taitung c...

Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac said on Friday a third production line for its Covid-19 vaccine has been put into use, doubling its annual capacity of the jabs to two billion doses. Its CoronaVac is one of four domestic vaccines given conditi...

The BBC said on Wednesday that one of its journalists in mainland China had relocated to Taiwan, a move that comes amid criticism from Beijing about the broadcaster's reports on alleged human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang regio...

The China-US trade war is pushing Beijing to step up its efforts to steal technology and poach talent from Taiwan to boost the mainland's semiconductor industry's self-sufficiency, the government of the tech-powerhouse island said on Wednesday. Wash...

China’s loans to poor countries in Africa and Asia impose unusual secrecy and repayment terms that are hurting their ability to renegotiate debts after the coronavirus pandemic, a group of US and German researchers said in a report on Wednesday. I...

The Yunnan city of Ruili that borders Myanmar ordered on Wednesday a one week home quarantine for residents of the city's urban area, and mass Covid testing, after reporting six new locally transmitted coronavirus cases. Health authorities said the ...

Taiwan's air force is no longer scrambling each time People's Liberation Army aircraft encroach on its air defence identification zone but tracks the intruders with ground based missiles instead to help save resources, a senior official said on Monda...

Swedish fashion retailer H&M should look into the Xinjiang issue seriously, a Chinese official said on Monday, as the company faces a consumer boycott over comments made last year about labour conditions in the western Chinese region. H&M is facing...

The United Nations is holding "serious negotiations" with China for unfettered access to the Xinjiang region to verify reports that Muslim Uighurs are being persecuted, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a CBC interview broadcast on Sunday...

China reported eight new Covid-19 cases on March 27, compared with 12 new infections the previous day, the country's national health authority said on Sunday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all of the new cases were imported...

The Chinese capital Beijing woke on Sunday morning shrouded in thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles, as a second sandstorm in two weeks hit the city due to winds from drought-hit Mongolia and northwestern China. Visibilit...

Iran and China signed a 25-year "strategic cooperation pact" on Saturday in the latest expansion of Beijing's flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals build closer ties. Negotiations for the deal, launched five years ago, s...

China on Saturday slapped sanctions on US and Canadian entities over what the Foreign Ministry says are “rumours and disinformation” about alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang. In a statement, a foreign ministry spokesman said Beijing made t...

Twenty Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone on Friday, in the largest incursion yet reported by the island's defence ministry and marking a dramatic escalation of tension across the Taiwan Strait. The island's d...

Britain on Friday accused China of attempting to "silence those highlighting human rights abuses" after Beijing sanctioned British lawmakers leading calls for action over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims. "We condemn China's attempt to silence those ...

Taiwan premier Su Tseng-chang has accused some of the island’s artistes of being selfish for expressing support for cotton made in Xinjiang, or cutting ties with companies which have voiced concerns about reports of forced labour in the region. D...

Beijing said on Friday that its efforts to crack down on drug use among young people have been so successful that the problem has essentially been eradicated from the nation's schools. The announcement was made in a Xinhua News Agency article with a...