An explosion at a fireworks shop in central China killed 12 people yesterday, the second day of the Lunar New Year holiday, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Beijing will take “all necessary measures” against foreign espionage activities, the foreign ministry said yesterday, after the US spy agency issued a recruitment video targeting Chinese military personnel.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the military’s “fight against corruption”, state media reported yesterday, in a rare acknowledgement of graft weeks after Beijing escalated a sweeping purge by probing its top general.

The company is located in Shanyin County, about 400 kilometres west of Beijing

China has executed four leading members of Myanmar-based scam syndicates, a Chinese court said yesterday, the second such announcement in less than a week as Beijing ramps up a crackdown on cross-border telecom fraud.

The United States' 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS), released last week, said Washington would "deter China in the Indo-Pacific through strength, not confrontation".

Fraud compounds have flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands, part of a multibillion-dollar illicit industry.

China's exports to non-U.S. markets rise significantly in 2025

The approval covers several hundred thousand H200 chips and was granted during Nvidia.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on countries to protect the “central role” of the United Nations in international affairs, urging his Brazilian counterpart yesterday to help safeguard international norms, state media reported.

It marks the lowest birth rate since records by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) began in 1949

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on a raft of measures from trade to tourism yesterday at the first meeting between the countries’ leaders in Beijing in eight years.

Sovereignty of all countries must be protected, foreign minister says

The nation is dealing with a looming demographic crisis

Condoms and contraceptive pills now incur 13% VAT

This marks China's sixth major round of war games since 2022 after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the democratically governed island

China has announced fresh sanctions on 20 US defence firms, including a Boeing branch, over Washington’s latest arms sales to Taiwan, the island Beijing claims.

China’s exports of rare-earth magnets rose to the second-highest level on record in November, the first full month after the US and China agreed to streamline exports of the elements.

Beijing’s actions are “not conducive to regional peace”, Japan’s defence minister and US counterpart Pete Hegseth agreed during a call after Chinese aircraft locked radar on Japanese jets near Taiwan, Tokyo said yesterday.

Changing tariffs will also affect South Korea, India, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and Brazil