China

HONG KONG/WASHINGTON: US national security adviser Jake Sullivan pressed Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during talks in Thailand to use China's influence with Iran to ease tensions in the Middle East. The officials also agreed to work…

BEIJING: China and Nauru formally restored diplomatic relations Wednesday after the tiny Pacific island nation cut its ties with Taiwan earlier this month, in a further move by Beijing to isolate Taipei's democratic government. Chinese…

Two hundred rescue workers have been dispatched to the scene as well as dozens of fire engines and other equipment.

The tremors of the earthquake were also felt in the Delhi-NCR region including other parts of India.

More than 200 people have been "urgently evacuated" from the region, CCTV reported.

YANSHANPU: Authorities in central China's Henan Province were on Sunday looking into the cause of a night-time fire that killed 13 schoolchildren as they slept in a dormitory. The inferno, which took place at the Yingcai School in…

China issued 180,000 visas to Indians in 2023, urging India to reciprocate for Chinese citizens. Calls for normalizing visa channels for enhanced people-to-people and cultural exchange.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan and neighbouring Iran are both battling simmering insurgencies along their sparsely populated border regions.

China’s population dropped by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said Wednesday. The number of deaths rose by 690,000 to…

In Gaza, at least 23,968 people have been killed, the majority of them women and children, according to the health ministry in the besieged Hamas-ruled territory.

With Beijing and New Delhi tussling for influence, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu was elected in September after pledging to cultivate "strong ties" with China and eject Indian troops.

Warships from China and the US conducted rival exercises in the sea this week amid heightened tensions involving US ally the Philippines.

Armed conflict has raged in Myanmar's northern Shan state since October when an alliance of ethnic minority groups launched an offensive against the military junta.

Dong's promotion comes at a sensitive time as Beijing ups military pressure on the self-ruled island of Taiwan ahead of presidential elections next month.

The magnitude 6.2 quake struck in a mountainous region Monday night between Gansu and Qinghai provinces and about 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) southwest of Beijing.

The quake was China's deadliest since 2014 when more than 600 people were killed in southwestern Yunnan province.

Search teams were using excavators to dig out a thick sea of mud that covered roads and encased and blocked entry to buildings.

Fears are growing that survivors awaiting rescue could succumb to the bitter cold, with temperatures at the epicentre in Gansu's Jishishan county expected to dip as low as - 17 degrees Celsius.

The earthquake left more than 300 people injured, damaged houses and roads, and knocked out power and communication lines.