Beijing has appointed Liu Jianchao to lead the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party, a national-level ministry in charge of relations with North Korea and other socialist countries. Liu, 58, replaces Song Tao, the party’s offici...

Mainland officials on Thursday have spoken out against the launch of talks to deepen trade ties between the United States and Taiwan, an initiative that follows an agreement US President Joe Biden announced last week with a number of Asian economies....

Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting Papua New Guinea on Thursday, as he continued on his regional trip to shore up relations with Pacific island nations. A Xinhua commentary published on Thursday said Wang's 10-day trip has reflected Beijing's sinc...

Mainland authorities on Thursday reported 61 new local Covid-19 cases, compared with 68 infections the day before. This is the third day in a row the mainland reported fewer than a hundred local coronavirus cases. The new infections include 18 symp...

At least four people are dead and 14 others injured after two earthquakes hit southwestern China on Wednesday, state media reported. A shallow 6.1-magnitude quake hit a sparsely populated area in Sichuan province about 100km west of provincial capit...

Shanghai reopened on Wednesday following two months of lockdown, as the number of new Covid-19 infections continued to drop. The financial hub reported 15 new local cases, including five symptomatic infections. People were seen travelling on Shan...

China's cabinet announced a package of 33 measures covering fiscal, financial, investment and industrial policies on Tuesday to revive its pandemic-ravaged economy, adding it will inspect how provincial governments implement them. The stimulus packa...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday arrived in Tonga as part of his tour through the region, shortly after Beijing issued a position paper on proposals to deepen partnership with Pacific island nations. The document said one of the ways China will s...

Mainland health authorities on Tuesday reported just 97 new local Covid infections, down from 184 a day earlier. Among the new cases, 28 were symptomatic and 69 did not show symptoms. The latest infections were mainly from Beijing, where authoritie...

A jet trainer crashed in Taiwan on Tuesday, killing the pilot, the authorities there say, the second such fatal accident this year. The AT-3 jet crashed during a training mission from the Gangshan air base in the city of Kaohsiung and the body of th...

China's factory activity contracted at a slower pace in May as Covid-19 curbs in major manufacturing hubs were relaxed, but movement controls still depressed domestic demand, restrained production and weighed on the economy in the second quarter. Th...

A Beijing man has landed thousands of his neighbours in quarantine after he ignored a stay-at-home order and later tested positive for Covid, prompting a police investigation. The capital city has ordered hundreds of thousands of residents to stay h...

President Xi Jinping on Monday told leaders of Pacific island nations that China is willing to work with them to build a community "with a shared future". In a written address to a meeting of China-Pacific foreign ministers, Xi stressed that no matt...

Authorities in Shanghai on Monday reported 61 new domestically transmitted asymptomatic infections for May 29, down from 93 a day earlier, while local symptomatic cases fell to 6 from 29. Officials said one new case was reported outside quarantined ...

Shanghai has continued to see a decline in Covid-19 infections, logging 122 new local cases on Sunday – 29 of which were symptomatic. Beijing saw 21 new local cases, including 14 symptomatic ones. Nationwide, health officials reported a total o...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday signed a cooperation deal between China and the government of Samoa on Saturday as he continued his diplomatic tour of Pacific nations. Samoan authorities said the pact covered economic and technical cooperation ...

Health authorities on the mainland on Saturday reported just 264 new local Covid infections – down 90 from the previous day. There were 170 cases in Shanghai, including 131 that were asymptomatic infections. Officials said one of the cases were f...

The number of new local Covid-19 infections and deaths in Taiwan reached new highs on Friday. The island reported 94,808 new locally-transmitted cases and 126 additional fatalities, both single-day highs since the pandemic began. New Taipei City re...

Foreign minister Wang Yi on Friday visited the Pacific nation of Kiribati, where the future of a vast fishing ground is at stake. The four-hour visit by Wang was his second stop on an eight-nation trip, which is taking place at the same time as a co...

Profits at China's industrial firms fell at their fastest pace in two years in April as high raw material prices and supply chain chaos caused by Covid-19 curbs squeezed margins and disrupted factory activity. Profit shrank 8.5 percent from a year e...