China has launched its first homegrown open-source operating system for computers, state media said yesterday, as Beijing seeks to reduce its foreign dependence at a time of increased rivalry with the United States.

Torrential rain has killed 15 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, media reported

China’s Xi Jinping yesterday urged the leaders of Russia, Iran and other Shanghai alliance states to boost ties and resist sanctions, as Vladimir Putin thanked the bloc for support during a failed rebellion.

China, Japan and South Korea need to send a clear signal of regrouping towards co-operation, and resist “the coercion of bullying and domination”, China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, said yesterday, in an apparent swipe at the United States.

The US dollar’s protracted smile is making China and Japan uncomfortable.

China’s foreign minister Qin Gang met with Russia’s deputy foreign minister Andrey Rudenko in Beijing yesterday, China said, in the first public meeting of diplomats from the two countries since mutinous mercenaries threatened to storm the Russian capital.

Beijing criticised US authorities yesterday for charging four Chinese companies and eight individuals with trafficking chemicals used in manufacturing fentanyl, calling the arrests “arbitrary detention”.

Eight Chinese war planes crossed the Taiwan Strait’s median line and approached close to the island’s contiguous zone that is 24 nautical miles (44 km) off its coast yesterday, the Taiwanese defence ministry said, in a further rise in tensions.

China issued its highest-level heat alert for northern parts of the country yesterday as the capital baked in temperatures hovering around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).

A gas explosion at a barbecue eatery on Wednesday night in China’s northwestern Ningxia region killed 31, according to state-run Xinhua news agency, in one of the country’s deadliest restaurant blasts in recent years. 

At least 31 people were killed when an explosion ripped through a restaurant in the northwestern Chinese city of Yinchuan, state media reported Thursday

China and the United States yesterday agreed to try and stabilise their intense rivalry to avoid veering into conflict, but did not announce any major breakthroughs during a rare visit to Beijing by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the importance of keeping open lines of communication to reduce the risk of miscalculation in talks with the Chinese foreign minister yesterday, and the two agreed to meet again in Washington.

Xi Jinping called Bill Gates “an old friend” and said he hoped they could carry out activities together beneficial to both China and the United States, in the Chinese president’s first meeting with a foreign entrepreneur in years. 

Temperatures in Beijing hit a record for mid-June of 39.4 degrees Celsius (103 Fahrenheit) today, China's meteorological authority said, warning the public to stay indoors.."At around 2:30 pm on June 16, the temperature at Beijing's Nanjiao observatory hit 39.4 degrees Celsius, breaking th

China yesterday called on India to meet it halfway in a dispute over journalists working in each other’s countries after China said its reporters in India had been treated unfairly and an Indian journalist was asked to leave China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged economic and social backing for Honduras yesterday, state media reported, in his first remarks on the Central American country since it cut ties with Taiwan and recognised Beijing instead.

Chin, whose birth was aided by Peace Ark medics, wants to be 'envoy of friendship'

China warned the United States yesterday against “interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs”, in response to reports that Beijing was planning to set up a spy base on the island just off American shores.

Millions of Chinese students sit for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end