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The Soviet Union’s collapse at the end of 1991 has weighed heavily on the minds of China’s leaders over the past three decades as they seek to avoid a similar [...]

Tax bureaus in some of the country’s most prosperous regions have given celebrities and internet influencers a deadline of nine days to pay their outstanding taxes, according to a notice [...]

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s appearance at a Shanghai event on Sunday has not satisfied the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), which said its concerns about her well-being had not been [...]

A European human rights group has filed an urgent appeal with a United Nations agency after a Moroccan court upheld a Chinese request to extradite a Uygur man. Yidiresi Aishan, [...]

A mainland health expert has hit back at a Canadian researcher’s claims of strong evidence that Covid-19 originated from a wholesale food market in central China, saying the suggestions do [...]

A top respiratory scientist on the mainland has urged China to learn from the West about advanced mRNA vaccine technology, and called on all countries to be open-minded about working [...]

The Chinese lunar rover Yutu 2 is on its way to investigate a cube-shaped object, described as a “mystery hut”, on the far side of the moon. The mission team [...]

Beijing has offered its support to troubled Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and condemned the violence raging in the capital. The assurances came as protesters in Honiara continued to [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics in February next year. This is likely to make Putin the first state leader to meet [...]

While bringing ample benefits, China's growing contributions and influence in global ­organisations like the World Bank and the United Nations should be reconsidered, a new reporton China's international ­engagement has [...]

More than four dozen lawmakers from 20 countries have written to their governments opposing the nomination of Hu Binchen from the Ministry of Public ­Security for an oversight position at [...]

The conclusion of the COP26 ­climate change summit in ­Glasgow left many disappointed after a pledge on phasing out coal was watered down following an intervention by China and India. [...]

Kristen Ng, a musician and ­promoter, went to see the new James Bond movie at a cinema two weeks ago with her girlfriend in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. Three [...]

Fish stocks in the South China Sea are at risk of collapse if action is not taken in the next 10 years to ­reduce overfishing and the effects of climate [...]

The trade group known as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) holds its yearly forum tomorrow, with New Zealand playing host to the virtual event featuring leaders from China, the United [...]

The mainland reported 65 new ­local symptomatic Covid-19 cases yesterday, up only slightly from the day before as some provinces claimed progress in controlling outbreaks - but police were investigating [...]

Why does Tajikistan matter to China? The former Soviet republic is Central Asia's most impoverished country and shares a 1,357km border with Afghanistan, plus a 447km border with China's western [...]

The American performing arts conservatory Juilliard School has inaugurated its first overseas campus on the mainland, ­receiving congratulations from first lady Peng Liyuan and foreign vice-minister in a sign that [...]

The mainland military could be spending as much or even more than the United States on artificial intelligence, according to a new report. The analysis, by the Centre for Security [...]

The party secretary for Inner Mongolia's Ejina banner - a ­tourist destination in the northern part of the mainland that is ­grappling with a ­Covid-19 ­outbreak - has been ­removed [...]

China's largest civilian patrol boat entered service on Saturday, with the state broadcaster CCTV ­reporting that it would be used to deliver strategic resources and help protect the country's ­maritime [...]

China has passed a family ­education law requiring parents and guardians to reduce the 'twin pressures' of homework and ­private tutoring on children. They will also have to prevent their [...]

A mix-and-match strategy for Covid-19 booster shots could help raise the immunity of the ­vaccinated population, but state regulators would need more ­scientific data before they could approve such an [...]

The Olympic flame arrived in ­Beijing yesterday, as several ­activists were reportedly due in court in Greece after being ­arrested for disrupting the ­lighting ceremony to accuse China of human [...]

Prison authorities in the northeastern city of Jilin have ­offereda 150,000 yuan (HK$181,300)reward for the ­capture of a North Korean convict who broke out of jail on Monday night, accordingto [...]

Beijing has named a Guangdong veteran and two Uygur cadres with significant security anddevelopment experience to the Xinjiang Communist Partycommittee, Xinjiang Daily hasreported. He Zhongyou, 55, worked for more than [...]

Two people were arrested and ­later released in Greece after ­displaying banners ­before the lighting of the Olympic torch for the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, as human rights groups tried [...]

Most people in Taiwan are not ­expecting an imminent war over the island despite high cross-strait tensions, surveys suggest - but it is a sentiment that risks ­complacency, analysts say. [...]

Two activists who disappeared last month in Guangzhou had been detained by police, a family member was told by authorities. But police refused to disclose the charges against the women's [...]

Health authorities have ordered mainland cities to build or convert facilities into permanent quarantine centres for overseas arrivals, as Beijing pushes ahead with its zero-tolerance Covid-19 policy. City governments have [...]

The curtain has come down on China's National Games in the ancient city of Xian, bringing to a close the biggest sporting event the country has hosted since the start [...]

Espionage prosecutions in the United States have punished ­Chinese and Asian defendants more severely, and may have falsely accused them more often than Western defendants, ­according to a new report. [...]

Ten people died and five were ­reported missing after an overloaded river ferry in Guizhou province capsized in bad weather. The ferry was the main mode of transport across the [...]

Regular high-level talks between China and the US helped them make gains on big issues during the presidency of Barack Obama, according to a report released amid strained bilateral ties. [...]

Some of the world's biggest ­academic publishers are investigating research papers containing genetic or facial information on minority groups amid allegations of ethical violations in gathering the data. Much of [...]

A US federal judge has acquitted former University of Tennessee (UT) professor Hu Anming of fraud in the first case to go to trial under the 'China Initiative' ­started by [...]

The US Coast Guard is carrying out its biggest shipbuilding effort since World War II, modernising its fleet and establishing a ­presence in the Pacific that the force has not [...]

After a day's reprieve of no new ­local cases, China on Tuesday ­registered four new symptomatic infections while health ­authorities stepped up vigilance and vaccination drives. Two of the cases [...]

Interpol has cancelled a red notice against a Uygur man sought by Beijing after the international ­police body conducted a review, amid ­accusations that the system is being misused to [...]

China has administered nearly 2 billion doses of vaccine but an outbreak in Shanghai has fanned fresh concerns about the spread of Covid-19 and forced ­hundreds of people into quarantine. [...]

Squabbles over the origins of ­Covid-19 are distracting the ­public and researchers from more urgent work, a scientist said, even as a peer called for ­answers to lingering questions about [...]

The World Health Organization has called for a 'spirit of ­partnership' in the search for the origins of Covid-19, as China, the US and others exchange heated rhetoric over the [...]

China had administered 1.8 ­billion Covid-19 vaccine doses as of yesterday, and was racing ­closer to herd immunity. But how would the country and others around the world deal with [...]

A Chinese court has upheld the death penalty handed to Robert Lloyd ­Schellenberg, rejecting the Canadian's appeal against the sentence after he was convicted of drug smuggling in 2018. The [...]

As many parts of the world battled the Delta variant of Covid-19, China was cautiously confident it could beat the virus again using the 'zero tolerance' strategy. It is an [...]

Beijing's securities watchdog is seeking greater communication with its US counterpart over ­listing requirements for mainland companies amid fresh disclosure demands from the United States for China-based firms. 'The securities [...]

An activist who has spent the last eight months in detention has been charged with subversion in another sign of the shrinking space for dissent in China. Ou Biaofeng, 40, [...]

China is considering giving ­vulnerable people a booster shot of coronavirus vaccine as the Delta variant causes a surge of cases. Shao Yiming, a researcher at the ­Chinese Centre for [...]

Flights and rail services were ­cancelled in several coastal cities yesterday as ­the arrival of ­Typhoon In-fa ­threatened to add to the devastation caused by flooding that has already claimed [...]