Chinese authorities evacuated over 82,000 people across Beijing at risk from heavy rainfall, state media said, after dozens of people died in flooding in the capital's suburbs last week

Ten people have been confirmed dead after a bus went missing on Sunday in China’s northern Shanxi province, as heavy rain lashed the region this week, state media said yesterday.

China said yesterday it would conduct joint military drills with Russia in August, including sea and air exercises near Vladivostok and joint naval patrols in the Pacific.

Heavy rains in the Chinese capital Beijing have killed 30 people and prompted authorities to evacuate 80,000, state media said Tuesday

Chinese-made engines are being covertly shipped via front companies to a state-owned drone manufacturer in Russia, labelled as “industrial refrigeration units” to avoid detection in the wake of Western sanctions, according to three European security officials and documents reviewed by Reuters.

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged top European Union officials yesterday to “properly handle differences and frictions” as he criticised Brussels’s recent trade actions against Beijing at a tense summit dominated by concerns on trade and the Ukraine war.

China started building a mega-dam yesterday on a river running through Tibet and India, with Premier Li Qiang attending the commencement ceremony, state media said.

A court in China sentenced a Japanese businessman to three-and-a-half years in prison yesterday for spying, Tokyo’s ambassador in Beijing said.

The country's leadership is fighting a multi-front battle to sustain growth, a challenge made more difficult by US President Donald Trump's tariff campaign

Negotiations about the so-called 3.0 version of the free trade zone started in November 2022 and completed in May

However, TikTok has insisted that it has never received any requests from Chinese authorities for European users' data

Rubio said Thursday the United States has "no intention of abandoning" the Asia-Pacific region

China said yesterday that the US has eased certain export restrictions in line with a “hard-won” framework reached at talks last month, warning against “blackmail and coercion”.

China firmly supports establishing a Southeast Asia nuclear weapon free zone and has made clear its willingness to take the lead in signing the treaty, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said yesterday.

Beijing's commerce ministry said it had "always firmly opposed" US tariffs

Six people have died from floods inundating China’s Guizhou province, state media said yesterday, after more than 80,000 people were driven from their homes this week.

Vice Premier He Lifeng will be in the United Kingdom between June 8 and June 13

Trump announced a six-month ban on foreign students enrolling at Harvard University

China yesterday signed a convention setting up an international organisation for mediation in Hong Kong that Beijing hopes will be on par with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and bolster the city’s international credentials.

China yesterday launched a space probe on the country’s first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua state news agency reported.