投稿者: Agence France-Presse in Beijing
Authorities impose sweeping restrictions as China holds fast to zero-Covid policyAbout 21 million people in the Chinese city of Chengdu have gone into lockdown as authorities raced to snuff out a new Covid-19 outbreak.China is the last major economy we…
Xi Jinping expected to be given third term and be anointed as country’s most powerful leader in decadesChina’s ruling Communist party will begin its 20th congress on 16 October, state media has reported, a meeting at which President Xi Jinping is expe…
Incident in Tangshan sparked outrage over gender-based violence when video went viralChinese authorities said they had charged 28 people and were investigating 15 officials including police for corruption more than two months after a shocking incident …
Foreign minister tells regime Beijing expects it to seek ‘political reconciliation’, amid regional concerns over spiralling civil violenceChina’s foreign minister has called for Myanmar’s junta to hold talks with its opponents, during his first visit t…
Latest outbreak in city of 25 million subsides after months of lockdowns and other restrictionsChina has reported no new Covid-19 infections in Shanghai for the first time since March, as the country’s latest outbreak subsides after months of lockdowns…
At least 23 people trapped under rubble and more are uncontactable, say authorities, after eight-storey block in Changsha collapsesAt least 23 people were trapped under a building that collapsed in central China, officials said, as rescuers pulled apar…
Chinese capital says negative test needed to enter some public areas, sporting events and to use public transportSee all our coronavirus coverageRestaurants across Beijing will temporarily ban dining-in and residents will need negative Covid tests to v…
Searchers find flight data recorder buried 1.5 metres underground by impact, after earlier recovering cockpit voice recorderBoth flight recorders or “black boxes” have been recovered from the crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 that killed all 132 …
Rare response from Richard Moore comes after state news agency posted video mocking western intelligenceThe head of MI6 has thanked China’s state news agency for “free publicity” after it posted a James Bond spoof video in response to a statement he ma…
Hundreds of homes destroyed and almost 6,000 people evacuated amid power cuts and landslides in Hubei provinceAt least 21 people died as heavy downpours struck central China’s Hubei province, authorities said today, weeks after record floods wreaked ha…
Vladislav Ivanov says he regretted his decision to join Produce Camp 2021 but fans refused to vote him outThe reality TV ordeal of a Russian who joined a Chinese boy band show by accident – and made it to the final despite urging fans to vote him off –…
Measures are passed to increase Beijing’s control of city, including vetting of election candidatesChina has passed sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system that tighten Beijing’s grip on the city, while leaving a facade of democratic structure…
Harbin hotel keeping threatened species in pen overlooked by bedrooms angers animal welfare groupsA Chinese hotel built around a central polar bear enclosure for the non-stop viewing pleasure of its guests has opened to immediate condemnation from cons…
Method can increase detection rate among infected people, senior Beijing doctor tells state TV Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has begun using anal swabs to test those it considers to be at high risk of contracting Cov…
Wang Yun put sodium nitrite in children’s breakfast in act of revenge against a colleagueA nursery school teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children, one of them apparently fatally, in an act of revenge against a coll…