China says providing vaccines to almost 40 African states

China says it is providing COVID-19 vaccines to nearly 40 African countries and described its actions as purely altruistic

Putin, Xi initiate projects in show of warming ties

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have joined in a videoconference to initiate a series of nuclear energy projects, an event intended to display warming ties between two nations that are the chief geopolitical rivals to the United States

Asian shares drop, tracking Wall Street decline led by tech

Asian shares are falling, tracking a decline on Wall Street led by big technology stocks

Lam defends freezing of publisher's assets as safety measure

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is defending the freezing of pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai’s assets as a necessary move under the city’s new national security law to protect the safety of all Chinese people

Asian stocks mixed after Taiwan, Singapore anti-virus curbs

Asian stock markets are mixed after Taiwan and Singapore tightened anti-coronavirus restrictions and Wall Street turned in its biggest weekly decline in three months

China Space Mars Mission

China lands on Mars in major advance for its space ambitions

China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest step forward for its ambitious space program

China accuses US of 'coercive diplomacy' after trade remarks

China is accusing the United States of “coercive diplomacy” following comments by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to his Australian counterpart that the U.S. will not abandon Australia in the face of Chinese economic coercion

Honda returns to quarterly profit despite pandemic damage

Honda swung into the black in January-March, recording a 213 billion yen ($2 billion) profit despite the lingering impact of the pandemic

Millions lose power after Taiwan power plant failure

An equipment failure has caused an outage at a power plant in southern Taiwan, triggering rolling blackouts across the island affecting millions of people