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China, India Agree To Withdraw Troops From Lake Area

China and India have agreed to pull back troops from a bitterly contested lake area high in the western Himalayas, the I... Read more

Taiwan Thanks Biden For His Support During Xi Call

Taiwan's government expressed its thanks to and "admiration" for US President Joe Biden on Thursday after he told his Ch... Read more

Confrontation Would Be A Disaster, Xi Tells Biden

Confrontation between China and the United States would be a disaster and the two sides should re-establish the means to... Read more

Tencent Executive Held 'over Links To Corruption'

Chinese tech giant Tencent said on Thursday that a company executive is being held by mainland authorities over allegati... Read more

Tianwen-1 Probe Enters Orbit Around Mars

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Eart... Read more

Mainland Consumer Prices Drop As Spending Eases

China's consumer prices fell in January after a brief improvement at the end of last year, as the world's second-biggest... Read more

WHO Experts 'still At Loss Over Covid Transmission'

The World Health Organisation mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the anim... Read more

Publisher Geng Xiaonan Jailed For Three Years

A Beijing court on Tuesday sentenced prominent publisher Geng Xiaonan to three years in prison after she confessed to co... Read more

No Baby Boom In China As Births Continue Downtrend

The number of newborns in China plummeted 15 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Public Se... Read more

China Blocks Access To Discussion App Clubhouse

A rare uncensored app that had attracted Chinese internet users to freely discuss taboo topics, including the mass deten... Read more

CGTN Journalist 'held For Supplying State Secrets'

An Australian journalist who has been detained for nearly six months in China where she worked for a state-television ch... Read more

China Reports 14 Covid Cases

China reported 14 new mainland Covid-19 cases on February 7, official data showed on Monday, up slightly from a day earl... Read more

China Delivers 600,000 Vaccine Doses To Cambodia

China delivered 600,000 doses of its Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine to ally Cambodia on Sunday, making the kingdom the la... Read more

Covid Whistle Blower Dr Li Wenliang Remembered

Scores of people flooded mainland social media on Saturday to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of doctor L... Read more

China's Mars Probe Sends Back First Image

China's maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said o... Read more