China has gone on the offensive ahead of the release of a US intelligence report on the origins of the coronavirus, bringing out a senior official to accuse the United States of politicising the issue by seeking to blame China. Fu Cong, a Foreign Mi...

Inactivated Covid-19 vaccines developed by China curbed the spread of the Delta variant during a May outbreak in Guangzhou, a study has shown. Led by reputed Chinese epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, researchers from the Guangzhou Center for Disease Con...

The mainland recorded four new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Saturday of which three were in Shanghai and one in Jiangsu, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday. Also reported were 28 new imported cases. Nine were...

Authorities in Shanghai have quarantined hundreds of people in an attempt to halt a fresh Covid-19 outbreak in the city after infections were detected in cargo workers at its airport, the municipal government said on Saturday. Some 120 people deemed...

Chinese astronauts edged into space on Friday to add the finishing touches to a robotic arm on the Tiangong space station. The foray, the second spacewalk in two months and relayed on television, is part of a space programme which has already seen t...

The world should guide and support Afghanistan as it transitions to a new government instead of putting more pressure on it, State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday in a call with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. The si...

Chinese regulators on Tuesday issued a lengthy set of draft regulations for the internet sector, banning unfair competition and restricting the use of user data. Internet operators "must not implement or assist in the implementation of unfair compet...

China's job market remained generally stable in July, official data showed on Monday. A total of 8.22 million new urban jobs were created in the first seven months, achieving 74.7 percent of the annual target, according to the National Bureau of Sta...

The mainland recorded 13 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday. Among the local cases, six each were reported in Jiangsu and Henan, and one in Hunan, Xinhua News Agency sa...

Rescuers in northwestern China worked on Sunday to free 19 trapped coal miners, hours after their site was flooded by mud in an accident that has already killed one worker. The flooding happened around noon on Saturday at the Chaida'er coal mine in ...

A former male employee of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is suspected of committing "forcible indecency" against a female colleague, but not rape, according to mainland police probing the assault. The investigation is still ongoing, the police burea...

Beijing on Friday rejected the World Health Organisation's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported "scientific" over "political" efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is once more mounting on China t...

The WHO on Thursday urged China to share raw data from the earliest Covid-19 cases to revive the pandemic origins probe - and release information to address the controversial lab leak theory. The World Health Organisation stressed it was "vitally im...

China will ban karaoke songs perceived to "endanger national security", as state controls attempt to muzzle the mics of a KTV-obsessed nation. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said it will establish a blacklist of banned songs with "illegal conte...

A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed Canadian businessman Michael Spavor for 11 years after finding him guilty of spying in a case his country has condemned as politically motivated. Spavor was detained in 2018 along with compatriot Michael Kovrig on...

China on Tuesday demanded that Lithuania recall its ambassador in Beijing in a row over Taiwan. China has also decided to recall its envoy to the Baltic state. "Recently, the Lithuanian Government, in disregard of China's repeated representations a...

A mainland court on Tuesday rejected Canadian Robert Schellenberg's appeal against a death sentence for drug smuggling. The verdict on Schellenberg comes at a time when relations between the two countries remain frozen following Canada's arrest of a...

More than 80,000 people have been evacuated because of heavy rains and floods in Sichuan province, state media reported on Monday. Water levels at major rivers in the province were above warning levels following heavy rainfall from Friday to Sunday....

The mainland reported more Covid-19 cases as it entered the third week of its current outbreak on Monday, while some cities added rounds of mass testing in the effort to stamp out locally-transmitted infections. The highly infectious Delta variant h...

Authorities in the city of Wuhan on Sunday said they had completed citywide testing of more than 11 million people for Covid-19 after a resurgence of cases more than a year after the coronavirus first emerged there. The tests -- which began on Tuesd...