Chinese-Canadian tycoon faces trial without consular access, embassy says
Billionaire financier Xiao Jianhua, known for his close connections to some of China's most powerful political families, vanished in 2017...
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Victims of Tangshan restaurant attack recovering from injuries, Chinese police say
The assault, which took place in the early hours of June 10, saw several women repeatedly kicked and punched by...
Fire at Shanghai petrochemical complex kills at least one person
The fire occurred in the ethylene glycol plant area of Sinopec's petrochemical complex at approximately 4 a.m. in the city's...
WSJ News Exclusive | Lawmakers Make Bipartisan Push for New Government Powers to Block U.S. Investments in China
Congress is pressing ahead with legislation that could rewrite the rules for American companies investing abroad, proposing the screening of...
Panic buying in Shanghai as mass testing notices spark fears of new lockdown
The mass testing announcements sparked fears of a return to stringent, prolonged lockdown among Shanghai residents, many of whom had...
Chinese military plane crashes in residential area, at least one dead
The plane, a People's Liberation Army Air Force J-7 aircraft, was on a training mission in Hubei province when it...
Torrential rains kill 25 people in southern China
In recent weeks, heavy rainfall has triggered severe flooding and landslides in large swathes of southern China, damaging homes, crops...
China’s censorship of top livestreamer introduces fans to Tiananmen Square massacre
But this year, those attempts backfired, drawing attention to and prompting questions about the massacre from previously oblivious young Chinese...
China launches third crewed mission to new space station
The astronauts lifted off on the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft at 10:44 a.m. local time, launched by a Long March 2F rocket...
Six arrested as Hong Kong snuffs out Tiananmen vigil, but memories live on
For the second year in a row, the sea of candlelight that used to illuminate Hong Kong's Victoria Park every...
One dead, 8 injured after high-speed train derails in southern China
The train derailed at 10:30am local time after hitting debris from a landslide that was on the track while it...
Shanghai declares zero-Covid milestone but residents cast doubt on reopening
"Zero-Covid at the community level" means infections are no longer found outside centralized quarantine facilities or neighborhoods under the strictest...
Beijing shuts Universal Studios, bans restaurant dining in major escalation of Covid restrictions
The Labor Day holiday, which started on Saturday this year, has traditionally been a busy time for mass travel and...
Beijing tests 20 million residents amid ‘fast and furious’ Omicron outbreak
The Chinese capital started testing all residents of Chaoyang, a bustling district home to the business center and foreign embassies,...
Beijing races to contain ‘urgent and grim’ Covid outbreak as Shanghai lockdown continues
Beijing officials said at a press briefing Saturday that they were tracking cases across multiple districts and involving students, tour...
Analysis: China’s global hubs get less global as Covid isolation bites
But in recent weeks, they have become synonymous with a much grimmer reality, as authorities in the two international finance...
Shanghai reports first official Covid deaths in weeks-long lockdown
Three elderly people aged between 89 and 91 died from Covid on Sunday, after their condition deteriorated in hospital, the...
China is sending its most advanced fighter jet to patrol disputed seas
Early versions of the J-20 stealth jet used Russian engines -- but those have since been replaced with domestically-produced twin...
There’s no end in sight for China’s Covid lockdowns. Here’s what you need to know
Since March, China has battled its biggest Covid wave yet, with Shanghai now the largest hotspot. All 25 million residents...
Analysis: In China’s ‘zero-Covid’ lockdowns, patients with other diseases are struggling to survive
She'd taken him to the hospital designated for residents whose housing blocks -- like theirs -- had positive Covid-19 cases,...
