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