Taiwan reported a rise in domestic coronavirus infections on Wednesday after six days of falls, and unveiled details of a mass vaccination plan that aims to eventually cover 1.7 million people a week. After months of relative safety, Taiwan is battl...

China said on Wednesday a flight by 16 military aircraft over hotly contested waters off Malaysia was routine training, after the Southeast Asian nation accused Beijing of breaching its sovereignty. Malaysia scrambled fighter jets on Monday to inter...

A herd of 15 wandering elephants on an epic trek through southwestern China have entered villages to gorge on crops, broken into barns and caused a million US dollars of losses. Over the past week, the animals drained a water tank, helped themselve...

President Xi Jinping said China must improve the way it tells its "stories" to a global audience as it seeks to develop an international voice that reflects its status on the world stage, official news agency Xinhua reported. Speaking at a Communist...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has approved a Covid-19 vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech for emergency use listing, the second Chinese-produced shot to get its endorsement, a WHO statement said on Tuesday. WHO emergency listing is a signal to nat...

China reported the world's first human infection of the H10N3 bird flu strain on Tuesday but said the risk of it spreading widely among people was low. A 41-year-old man was admitted to hospital with fever symptoms in the eastern city of Zhenjiang o...

Fifteen tutoring firms have been hammered with millions of dollars of fines over alleged fraud, Chinese state media said on Tuesday, as the government's chastening of the tech sector seeps into the private education businesses. The groups, including...

China has jailed a popular blogger for "defaming martyrs" after he suggested the death toll of the China-India border clash last year was higher than the official count of four. Qiu Ziming – with over 2.5 million followers on China's twitter-like ...

The mainland’s top respiratory disease expert, Zhong Nanshan, has called on authorities to conduct more vigorous testing and further reduce the movement of people in Guangdong province to rein in the spread of Covid-19 there. The province reported...

China announced on Monday that married couples may have up to three children, a major policy shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country. The change was approved dur...

New Zealand and Australia downplayed policy differences on China on Monday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern denying Wellington was taking a soft stance on human rights to avoid offending its largest trading partner. Ardern's government has taken ...

China on Monday reported a sudden surge of Covid-19 in the country's south, with 20 new local cases on May 30, as authorities locked down areas of Guangdong province's capital city. Of the 27 new coronavirus cases reported by the national health aut...

A Chinese cargo spacecraft carrying equipment and supplies successfully docked with the core module of the country's future space station on Sunday, state media said. A Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft -- loaded with essential...

China on Saturday successfully launched an automated cargo resupply spacecraft to rendezvous with an orbiting module, in the second of a series of missions needed to complete its first permanent space station. The Tianzhou-2, or "Heavenly Vessel" in...

Chinese fans of the popular sitcom "Friends" were furious after censors cut guest stars Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Korean boyband BTS from the much-awaited reunion episode. When the one-off special of the beloved 1990s sitcom was streamed on three...

The southern city of Guangzhou shut down a neighbourhood and ordered residents to stay home on Saturday to be tested for the coronavirus following an upsurge in infections that has rattled authorities. Guangzhou has reported 20 new infections over t...

Authorities in Guangzhou on Thursday reminded residents of the need for social distancing after huge crowds turned up for coronavirus tests. More than a million residents in Liwan district have been ordered to get tested for Covid since infections w...

Australia's ambassador to China was on Thursday barred from the trial of an academic held on spying charges, in a case that has exacerbated a bitter row between the two nations. The trial of Australian Yang Jun, detained for more than two years on a...

Taipei directly accused Beijing for the first time on Wednesday of blocking a deal with Germany's BioNTech for Covid-19 vaccines. Taiwan has millions of vaccine doses on order, from AstraZeneca and Moderna, but has received only slightly more than 7...

The latest international celebrity to apologise for hurting the feelings of the Chinese people appears to have left people everywhere disappointed, with criticism at home for his "kowtowing" to Beijing, and mainlanders demanding he go further. John ...