Mainland China has stressed its “greatest sincerity” for peaceful reunification with Taiwan, amid escalating drills surrounding the self-ruled island following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unannounced visit to Taipei.

The US Senate has passed a bill that looks set to become the country’s single-largest investment in fighting climate change. The legislation approved August 7, 2022, would inject at least US$430 billion into tackling climate change as well as lowering pre...

From fears over a China-US war to hopes for peace, reactions were mixed from people in Xiamen, the mainland China port city about 300km (186 miles) from Taiwan, when asked about US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan and Beijing’s stern re...

Mainland China launched unprecedented military drills near Taiwan the day after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the self-ruled island. The largest exercises ever staged by the People’s Liberation Army in the Taiwan Strait, began o...

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taipei on August 2, 2022, becoming the most senior American politician to visit the island since 1997. The stop in Taiwan had not been officially confirmed prior to her arrival.

These smart glasses show real-time subtitles of conversations, which could be useful to deaf people. The XRAI Glass software turns speech into text, which is then displayed on the inside of the lenses.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo in Beijing on July 26, 2022. Joko Widodo is the first foreign leader to meet Xi in person since the Winter Olympics in February. The two vowed to strengthen bilateral ties, and Beijin...

A chess-playing robot broke a seven-year-old opponent’s finger during an international chess tournament in Russia.

A 66-year-old farmer and her son have become internet sensations for their drum-dance collaboration in southern’s China.

Cities and towns across China have been issued fresh orders for mass testing and lockdowns as the nation’s Covid-19 case count rose above 1,000 for the first time in two months on July 19, 2022. The epicentre of the mainland’s latest outbreak was in the p...

Surfskating, a novice-friendly version of skateboarding, has taken off in Chinese cities, especially among women. Boosted by the snow-sport buzz after the Winter Olympics, the pasttime has thrived during the Covid-19 curbs that made summer travel difficul...

Incredible Wildfires scorch southern Europe amid record heatwave

A loving daughter mistook her father’s desire for her to lose weight as his own while they were on a walk along a nearby river in eastern China’s Shandong province. ‘I love you no matter what you will become,’ said the girl to her dad in the viral video o...

A video of a five-year-old girl carting around a US$75,000 camera to film a school wildlife project has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms. Meng Meng often follows her photo-videographer father when he goes shooting.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the far western region of Xinjiang on July 12-13, 2022, on his first trip to the area in eight years. The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is seen as a sensitive topic, with Beijing blaming years of violent attacks in...