Two tornadoes ripped through China's central city of Wuhan and a town in the eastern province of Jiangsu, killing 12 people and injuring hundreds while destroying homes and property, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Eight people wer...

Taiwan raised its coronavirus alert level on Saturday in the capital, Taipei, and the city around it, bringing curbs for a period of two weeks that will shut many venues and restrict gatherings in the wake of 180 new domestic infections. The new rul...

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed ...

The Taiwan arm of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily is to stop publishing its print version, the newspaper said on Friday, blaming declining advertising revenue and more difficult business conditions in Hong Kong linked to politics. The...

China's "Zhurong" rover, part of its ambitious space programme to send a probe to Mars, is set to attempt the challenging landing on the Red Planet in the next five days, Beijing's space agency said on Friday. The tricky touchdown, if successful, wo...

China on Friday accused the United States of “coercive diplomacy” following comments by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to his Australian counterpart that the US “will not leave Australia alone on the field — or maybe I should say ‘alone ...

Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday that there is no need to raise the island's Covid-19 alert level for the time being and that compared with last year it has more experience and resources to fight the pandemic. While Taiwan has reported j...

Mainland China reported seven new Covid-19 cases on May 13, down from nine cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Friday. Two of the new cases were local infections in Anhui province, the National Health Commission said...

Tech powerhouse Taiwan resumed power late on Thursday following several hours of phased blackouts islandwide, a problem that briefly impacted major semiconductor firm TSMC. Around 4 million homes were affected on the island of 24 million people afte...

A rotational electricity blackout was implemented across Taiwan on Thursday following an outage at a major power plant, the government said. President Tsai Ing-wen called for calm, saying the power supply would be gradually resumed as workers condu...

Dozens of countries raised awareness about China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang at a meeting at the United Nations on Wednesday, angering Beijing, which had lobbied member states to stay away from what it described as an anti-China event. ...

Two Chinese football teams purposely scored own goals to try to lose a farcical match in what has been described as "an unbelievable" scene and "a smear" on the game. Widely shared footage of the game between the over-35 sides showed them strolling...

Taiwan may raise its Covid-19 alert level in the "coming days", Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Wednesday, according to the official Central News Agency, which would lead to the closure of shops dealing in non-essential items as infections ri...

A Chinese professor has urged the government to offer parents 1 million yuan (US$156,000) for each newborn child in a bid to shore up the country's declining birth rate, sparking a debate on social media about the soaring costs of raising children. ...

Two amateur computer coders pleaded guilty Tuesday to “stirring up trouble and picking quarrels" in a case that highlighted a growing Chinese government crackdown on online activity. Chen Mei, 28, and Cai Wei, 27, created an online archive that st...

Authorities in eastern China used drones and hunting dogs to search for the last of three leopards that escaped from a safari park, which faced strong public criticism for concealing the breakout for more than two weeks. The leopards escaped from H...

China's population has grown at its slowest pace in decades reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on Tuesday, Beijing said. The growth of 5.4 percent since the last census in 2010 reflects fears of a looming demographic crisis amid an ageing...

China on Monday urged the United States, Germany and Britain to cancel an upcoming video conference on Beijing's crackdown on the Uyghur Muslim minority, and called on other UN members not to attend the event. At least one million Uyghurs and people...

Taiwan will fight to the end for an invitation to a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this month, its foreign ministry said on Monday, but China said there was no room for compromise. The rich-nation Group of Seven (G7) has called for Taiwan t...

Beijing defended its handling of a rocket booster that burned up over the Indian Ocean and said Monday it was unfairly being held to different standards than the US and other space programs. The administrator of the American space agency and others...