China

Guangzhou Neighbourhood Locked Down After Virus Surge

The southern city of Guangzhou shut down a neighbourhood and ordered residents to stay home on Saturday to be tested for... Read more

Huge Crowds Swamp Covid Testing Sites In Guangzhou

Authorities in Guangzhou on Thursday reminded residents of the need for social distancing after huge crowds turned up fo... Read more

Australian Ambassador Barred From Trial Of Yang Jun

Australia's ambassador to China was on Thursday barred from the trial of an academic held on spying charges, in a case t... Read more

Taiwan Says Beijing Blocked Deal For BioNTech Jabs

Taipei directly accused Beijing for the first time on Wednesday of blocking a deal with Germany's BioNTech for Covid-19 ... Read more

Another Sorry Celebrity Disappoints Both China And US

The latest international celebrity to apologise for hurting the feelings of the Chinese people appears to have left peop... Read more

Tigers Gunned Down In New China Escaped-cat Blunder

Two escaped tigers killed their keeper in Henan province and were shot dead, state media reported, in the latest inciden... Read more

China Braces For Summer Floods After Record Rainfall

China is bracing for a heavy flood season with 71 rivers already exceeding warning levels, the official Xinhua news agen... Read more

Xinjiang Camps 'turning Ghosts Into Humans'

A mainland official said on Tuesday that Beijing chose to build "education and training centres" instead of new prisons ... Read more

China Rejects Claim Of Illness At Wuhan Lab In 2019

China on Monday dismissed as "totally untrue" reports that three researchers in Wuhan went to hospital with an illness s... Read more

Dead Runner's Daughter Vents Anger At Race Organisers

A mainland woman has demanded answers from the organisers of an ill-fated ultramarathon as to why they took so long to t... Read more

Taiwan Considers Extending Covid Alert

Taiwan is considering extending its second highest Covid-19 alert that was due to expire at the end of the week, the hea... Read more

China To Try Australian Writer On Espionage Charges

Australia said its citizen Yang Hengjun will be tried by a Chinese court on espionage charges on Thursday amid deteriora... Read more

Extreme Weather Kills 21 In Gansu Mountain Race

Twenty-one people were killed when extremely cold weather struck during an ultramarathon on Saturday in rugged Gansu pro... Read more

Yuan Longping, Father Of Hybrid Rice, Dies Aged 91

Chinese agronomist Yuan Longping, who was known for developing the first hybrid rice strains, died at age 91 in the cent... Read more

Chinese Rover Starts Exploring Mars

China's Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began exploring the surface on Saturday, state-run Xinhua news ag... Read more