China is barring tutoring for profit in core school subjects to ease financial pressures on families that have contributed to low birth rates, news that sent shockwaves through its vast private education sector and share prices plunging. The move th...

French energy group EDF said on Thursday it would have shut down a nuclear reactor if it suffered problems similar to those reported at the next-generation Taishan power plant in China. Mainland authorities have said that damaged fuel rods led to in...

China on Thursday said a WHO proposal to audit Chinese labs as part of further investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic showed "disrespect" and "arrogance towards science". Last week, the World Health Organization said a second sta...

Piles of cars were strewn across a central Chinese city on Thursday as shocked residents picked through the debris of a historic deluge that claimed at least 33 lives, with more heavy rain threatening surrounding regions. An unprecedented downpour d...

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to China this weekend, the State Department announced on Wednesday, making her the highest-ranking official under President Joe Biden to visit amid deep tensions. "These discussions are part of ...

At least 16 people have died after torrential rains caused landslides and flooded a city in central China, with shocking images showing passengers struggling against chest-high water inside a train carriage. As river embankments were breached in rec...

Twelve people died after torrential rains flooded the subway in the Henan city of Zhengzhou, authorities said on Wednesday, as shocking images of passengers struggling against neck-high water inside a train carriage emerged on social media. The city...

The Chinese army warned that a stricken dam in the centre of the country "could collapse at any time" after being severely damaged in torrential storms that killed at least three people and brought the region to a standstill. Weather authorities hav...

Nine airport workers in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, have tested positive for Covid-19, state media reported. Positive results were found during the routine nucleic acid testing for airport workers carried out by local health authoritie...

Louis Vuitton, Porsche and Bulgari on Tuesday joined a legion of brands in dropping Chinese-Canadian pop idol Kris Wu, as sexual assault allegations swirling around the star drew condemnation across Chinese social media. The scandal has parallels w...

The mainland on Tuesday reported the highest daily tally of new confirmed Covid-19 cases since January, driven by a surge in imported infections in southwestern Yunnan province, which shares a border with Myanmar. The mainland recorded 65 new confir...

The Chinese Embassy in Washington has slammed as "irresponsible" a claim by the United States and its allies that China conducted a global cyberespionage campaign. The United States was joined by Nato, the European Union, Australia, Britain, Canada,...

Three of 14 workers who have been trapped in a flooded highway tunnel for six days so far in Zhuhai were found dead, the local government said. The tunnel is part of a major expressway in Zhuhai in Guangdong province, linking the coastal city to a b...

The Biden administration on Monday blamed China for a hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software that compromised tens of thousands of computers around the world earlier this year. The administration and allied nations also disclosed a broad r...

Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians were kidnapped in southwest Mali on Saturday, the country's armed forces said, in the latest attack in the war-torn Sahel state. Armed men attacked a construction site 55 kilometres (34 miles) from the to...

China has financed the setup of a fund under Apec to fight Covid-19 and fuel economic recovery, President Xi Jinping said during a virtual meeting of the Asia-Pacific trade group on Friday, according to Xinhua news agency. Xi also said that China su...

Hundreds of rescuers were battling on Friday to reach 14 construction workers trapped in a flooded tunnel in China, as the search entered its second day. Pump trucks channelled water out of the flooded highway tunnel, which runs under a reservoir, i...

Millions of Chinese people face bans from public spaces including schools, hospitals and shopping malls unless they get a Covid-19 vaccine, under new edicts covering nearly two dozen cities and counties. The coronavirus first emerged in the central ...

A shaking skyscraper in southern China that sent crowds fleeing in panic earlier this year was rocked by wind currents, experts concluded on Thursday. The 300-metre SEG Plaza tower in the city of Shenzhen near Hong Kong began to wobble suddenly on M...

Search teams were trying Thursday to rescue 14 construction workers trapped by an overnight flood in a tunnel being built in southern China. The cause of the 3:30 am flood in the city of Zhuhai is under investigation, the city's emergency managemen...