China has executed a man found guilty of killing at least 35 people in a car attack in November, in what is thought to be the deadliest attack in the country for a decade.
Fan Weiqiu, 62, injured dozens more when he drove his car into people (...)
The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance Ltd., sells the platform to a U.S.-approved buyer.
The court ruled that the potential national security (...)
Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump revealed Friday that he had "very good" phone discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping on key issues, including trade, fentanyl, and TikTok. Trump, set to return to the White House on Monday, expressed (...)
Two Chinese citizens are standing trial in New York for charges related to the illicit fentanyl trade in a landmark case as officials aim to crack down on the movement of the deadly drug and its components from China to the United States.
Defendants (...)
A small-time Chinese actor had been missing for two days in Thailand when his girlfriend decided to ask the internet for help.
"We have no choice but to borrow the power of the internet to amplify our voices," Wang Xing's girlfriend wrote on the (...)
The US has added several Chinese technology companies, including gaming and social media giant Tencent and battery maker CATL, to a list of businesses it says work with China's military.
The list serves as a warning to American companies and (...)
China has revealed a prototype of its next-generation high-speed train, a vehicle it says is on track to be the world's fastest.
The CR450, which was unveiled in Beijing on December 29, had reached test speeds as high as 450 kilometers (281 miles) (...)
The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
On December 31, 2019, the WHO's China office noted a cluster of (...)
Poland gears up to take over presidency of the European Union as the controversial Hungarian term comes to an end.
The presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates among the 27 member states once every six months.
The country in the (...)
A Chinese court has sentenced two teenagers over the death of their classmate in March.
The teens in Hebei province, identified only by their surnames Zhang and Li, were 13 years old when they conspired to kill their classmate Wang and split his (...)
China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, stoking concerns about displacement of communities in Tibet and environmental impacts downstream in India and Bangladesh.
The dam, which will be located in the (...)
Ko Wen-je, once a rising star in Taiwanese politics and a presidential contender, was indicted Thursday on corruption charges.
The 65-year-old is accused of accepting half a million dollars in bribes involving a real estate dealing during his term (...)
Sophie Hediger, a Swiss snowboarder who competed in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has died following an avalanche at a mountain resort in Switzerland, the country's skiing federation said on Tuesday.
The incident occurred on Monday at the Arosa (...)
A former US Marine accused of training Chinese military pilots will be extradited to face charges in the United States, Australia's Attorney General confirmed Monday, dealing a blow to supporters who have mounted a public campaign for his (...)
The Malaysian government says it has agreed in principle to resume the search for a passenger jet that vanished 10 years ago in one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 while on its way to (...)
Representatives from Germany, Finland and Denmark have boarded a Chinese cargo ship believed to be connected to the rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in November.
Swedish police and Chinese officials were also part of the inspection (...)
The People's Republic of China has a "magic weapon", according to its founding leader Mao Zedong and its current president Xi Jinping.
It is called the United Front Work Department – and it is raising as much alarm in the West as Beijing's growing (...)
An American citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on behalf of the Chinese government.
Prosecutors say Chen Jinping and his co-defendant Lu Jianwang opened and operated (...)
China says two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk Tuesday, a figure that beats the US-held record for the world's longest spacewalk set in 2001, in the latest milestone in the country's ambitious space program.
Cai Xuzhe and Song (...)
BEIJING — Saudi Minister of Health Fahad Al-Jalajel met with Chinese Minister of the National Health Commission (NHC) Lei Haichao on Thursday during his official visit to the People's Republic of China.
The two ministers discussed opportunities for (...)
BEIJING — Saudi Arabia and China have signed 24 agreements aimed to further enhance economic cooperation between the two countries. The agreements were signed on the sidelines of the Saudi-Chinese Business Council Forum, which was held in the (...)
Chiung Yao, arguably the world's most popular Chinese language romance novelist, has died in an apparent suicide.
The 86-year-old's body was found in her home in New Taipei City on Wednesday, local media report. Emergency services said she took her (...)
The Philippines says the China Coast Guard has fired water cannon and "sideswiped" a government vessel in the South China Sea.
The incident happened near the disputed Scarborough Shoal and Beijing said it acted "in accordance with the law".
The US (...)
Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate with an investigation into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea after a Chinese ship was linked to the incidents.
The cables — one linking Sweden to Lithuania and the other between Finland and Germany — (...)
China has suspended a top military official and placed him under investigation for corruption, the defense ministry said, as leader Xi Jinping broadens a sweeping purge in the upper ranks of the world's largest military.
Admiral Miao Hua, a member (...)
