A large segment of a Chinese rocket re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean on Sunday, the national space agency said, following fevered speculation over where the 18-tonne object would come down. Officials in Beiji...

China said on Friday the risk of damage from a rocket falling back to Earth was "extremely low", after the United States warned it could crash down onto an inhabited area. Military experts in the US expect the body of the Long March 5B rocket, which...

Some households in Taiwan are going without running water two days a week after a months-long drought dried up the island's reservoirs and a popular tourist lake. Authorities are drilling extra wells and using military planes to dump cloud-seeding ...

A craze in China for live pets sold in mystery "blind boxes" has sparked an online backlash after a courier truck full of dying puppies and kittens was discovered earlier this week. Volunteers in the southwestern city of Chengdu found 160 baby anima...

China criticised New Zealand on Thursday over "groundless" allegations about the ill treatment of Uyghurs, underlining Wellington's struggle to find a middle ground between its largest trading partner and its traditional Western allies. Beijing expr...

China on Thursday said it "strongly condemns" a statement by the Group of Seven nations that accused Beijing of rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong. The G7 made "unfounded accusations against China and openly intervened in China's interna...

The resumption of student visa applications at US missions in China got off to an acrimonious start this week when Weibo users took exception to an American embassy social media post they interpreted as likening Chinese students to dogs. Former US P...

China said on Thursday it had suspended an economic agreement with Australia, in an apparent tit-for-tat response to Canberra's scrapping a Belt and Road infrastructure pact and threat to undo a deal leasing Darwin Port to a Chinese company. The Chi...

China reported five new mainland Covid-19 cases on May 5, down from seven cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Thursday. The National Health Commission said in a statement all of the new cases were imported infections...

Debris from a Chinese rocket that sent part of a planned space station into orbit last week is likely to fall in international waters, China's Global Times reported on Wednesday, amid concerns it could cause damage on re-entry to Earth. The Long Mar...

China urged the Philippines on Tuesday to observe "basic etiquette" and eschew megaphone diplomacy after the southeast Asian nation's foreign minister used an expletive-laced Twitter message to demand that China's vessels leave disputed waters. The ...

China reported 17 new Covid-19 cases on May 3, up from 11 cases a day earlier, the national health authority said on Tuesday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all of the new cases were imported infections originating from over...

Taiwan's defence minister on Monday said authorities were investigating whether a man from mainland China had managed to cross the Taiwan Strait in a rubber dinghy in a bid to seek political sanctuary. On Saturday, police said a man surnamed Zhou h...

An increasingly powerful China is challenging the world order, acting "more repressively" and "more aggressively" as it flexes its influence, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview that aired Sunday. "What we've witnessed over the...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that differences between New Zealand and China are becoming harder to reconcile as Beijing's role in the world grows and changes. In a speech at the China Business Summit in Auckland, Ardern said there ar...

Australia will review the 99-year-lease of a commercial and military port in its north to a Chinese firm, the Sydney Morning Herald reported late on Sunday, a move that could further inflame tensions between Beijing and Canberra. Defence officials a...

An extreme thunderstorm hit an eastern Chinese city, leaving 11 dead and 102 injured, with strong winds causing buildings and trees to collapse. Nantong city, located in the eastern province of Jiangsu, was among the hardest-hit when the extreme we...

Millions of travellers criss-crossed China as the Labour Day holiday got under way on Saturday, packing out tourist sites, thronging restaurants and visiting family as the vast country edges towards life after Covid. The world's second largest econ...

China's population grew last year, the statistics bureau said on Thursday, in an apparent bid to quash reports that it had fallen, but stopped short of saying from which year numbers had grown. On Tuesday, the Financial Times newspaper said China wa...

Around 400 tonnes of oil spilt into the Yellow Sea after a tanker collided with another ship off China's largest crude-receiving port earlier this week, maritime authorities said on Thursday. "The amount of oil spilt from the ship into the sea is ab...