China

The trade relationship between China and Nigeria has been reaffirmed as being dominated by China, with the bilateral trade gap between the two countries expanding in China's favour. Nigeria's imports from Asia have steadily…

After a World Health Organization report suggested that additional research is needed into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government dismissed the hypothesis that the novel coronavirus developed from a laboratory…

Shanghai, China's economic capital, and Beijing, the country's capital, have both been subjected to new COVID-19 lockdowns and mass testing efforts from Friday, June 10; only days after draconian restrictions were eased. Shanghai…

China's central bank on Friday ruled that all financial transactions involving crypto currencies are illegal, the latest in a series of regulatory measures to crack down on crypto trading. “Virtual currency-related business activities…

Taliban officials have declared China as their closest ally in the international community, following their take over of power in Afghanistan. China has also been one of the few countries that has not evacuated staff from Kabul embassy…

China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as "spiritual opium". The…

China has on Tuesday, June 1 reported the world’s first human infection of H10N3 bird flu strain on Tuesday but said the risk of it spreading widely among people was low. A 41-year-old man was admitted to hospital with fever symptoms in…

Organisers of a Chinese ultramarathon have come under scrutiny after extreme weather killed 21 runners during an ultramarathon in northwest China’s rugged mountain terrain, including two of China’s best long-distance runners. They…

China's broadcasting regulator has banned BBC World Service from airing in the country, according to a report in Chinese state media. The development follows a move by Britain's communications regulator last week to revoke the license…

Chinese police have arrested more than 80 suspected members of a criminal gang that was manufacturing and selling fake COVID-19 vaccines. According to Xinhua news agency, the gang had been putting saline water into vials…

China has reported its first COVID-19 death in months, as World Health Organisation (WHO) team arrived in the country to probe the pandemic’s origins. The latest death raises the toll to 4,635 among 87,844 cases, sparking worry among…

China has confirmed its first case of a new coronavirus variant that was recently detected in Britain, health officials said. The new strain, which experts say potentially spreads faster than the original variant, has prompted travel…

Vanuatu has officially recorded its first case of COVID-19, almost a year after infections were first detected in city of Wuhan, Hubei province in China. The remote island country of around 300,000 people had been one of the remaining…

China has successfully launched world's first 6G satellite into space to test the technology ahead of US and Russia, alongside 12 other satellites on Friday, November 6. The devices were put into space by a Long March-6 carrier rocket…