China has accelerated settlement-building along its disputed border with Bhutan, with more than 200 structures, including two-storey buildings,

Inflation in China eased in December thanks to falling food and commodity costs, with analysts saying Wednesday’s figures give policymakers room to unveil measures to kickstart the stuttering economy including interest rate cuts.

Afghanistan’s ambassador to China left a colourful resignation note for his post-Taliban takeover successor yesterday -- revealing that staff had not been paid for months and that a lone receptionist had been left to answer phones.

A building housing a canteen in Chongqing in China's southwest collapsed on Friday after an explosion suspected to have been caused by a gas leak, killing at least 16, state broadcaster CCTV said.

Hospital officials in the northern Chinese city of Xi’an have been punished after a pregnant woman miscarried after being refused entry, reportedly for not having current Covid-19 test results.

A landslide at a construction site in southwest China’s Guizhou province has killed at least 14 people, state media reported yesterday.

More than one million people in a city in central China were being confined to their homes on Tuesday after three asymptomatic coronavirus cases were recorded in the country's latest mass lockdown.

Thirty-three years after he was abducted, a man finally reunited with his family, thanks to a hand-drawn map of his hometown.

Twenty-two people were injured when a shallow earthquake hit southwestern China yesterday afternoon and shook the popular tourist city of Lijiang, local authorities said.

China will take “drastic measures” if Taiwan makes moves towards independence, a Beijing official warned yesterday, adding that Taiwan’s provocations and outside meddling could intensify next year. 

China has replaced Chen Quanguo, who as Communist Party chief in the Xinjiang region oversaw a security crackdown targeting

Chinese lawmakers are discussing new rules to prevent workplace discrimination and sexual harassment against women amid a string of high-profile cases in recent months.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law legislation that bans imports from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, the White House said, provoking an angry Chinese condemnation.

Dissident Chinese artists, including Ai Weiwei, have decried a Hong Kong university’s removal of a statue honouring protesters killed at

China yesterday blacklisted four members of a US federal commission on religious freedom in the latest tit-for-tat response to Washington’s own sanctions targeting alleged perpetrators of “genocide” in Xinjiang.

Four people were killed and another eight injured on Saturday when part of a bridge ramp collapsed in Ezhou City, in China's central Hubei province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The Chinese embassy in London said an unofficial tribunal of lawyers which accused Beijing of genocide against the Uyghurs was nothing more than a political tool of China’s enemies which were spreading lies.

Consumer inflation in China picked up to its highest level in over a year in November, official data showed Thursday, bolstered by an uptick in pork prices as seasonal demand spiked.

China’s Guangdong province on Friday, December 3, summoned the chairman of China Evergrande Group after the real estate developer said there was “no guarantee” it would have enough funds to meet debt repayments, while regulators sought to reassure markets.

China will help leading futures companies to speed up their development and encourage qualified firms to be listed, the China Futures Association said in a statement, citing an official from the securities regulator.