Naomi Osaka won a second tournament on the spin as she fought back from a set down to defeat world number one Ashleigh Barty in the China Open final on Sunday.

Beijing's notoriously bad air quality has improved in recent years and the Chinese capital is expected to drop out of a list of 200 most polluted cities in the world this year, a data provider said Thursday.

Riot police fanned out across Hong Kong on Saturday and thwarted plans by pro-democracy protesters to target the airport, days after the city's leader made a surprise concession which was rejected by the movement as too little, too late.

Washington is moving ahead Sunday with new tariffs on Chinese imports as it steps up a high-pressure campaign aimed at coercing Beijing to sign a new trade deal even amid fears of a further slowing of the US and world growth.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un will soon make an official visit to Vietnam, Hanoi said Saturday as it beefed up security on the Chinese border where Kim is expected to cross by train ahead of his summit with US President Donald Trump next week. Vietnam is hastily preparing for a second summit between Trump and…

A multi-billion dollar China-backed rail project in Malaysia has been scrapped, government officials said Saturday, adding that the cost of building it was too high. Malaysia has in recent months suspended several major projects signed under the country's previous scandal-plagued regime, in a bid to cut the country's massive one trillion ringgit ($251 billion) debt.…

Twenty children were wounded in an attack at an elementary school in Beijing Tuesday with three suffering serious injuries, local authorities said.

China's factory inflation slowed in November, a sign demand remains weak amid Beijing's ongoing trade war with the United States, while consumer inflation also flagged, official data showed Sunday. The producer price index -- an important barometer of the industrial sector that measures the cost of goods at the factory gate -- climbed 2.7% on-year…

As leaders meet today in Beijing for the 2018 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit, the Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) has charged representatives of the continent to ensure that the engagements are mutually beneficial. In a statement, the IPPA said: “The key economic considerations that have shaped China-Africa relations are mainly loans, development…

President Muhammadu Buhari and other African leaders are gracing the third Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) holding between September 3 and 4, 2018 in Beijing, the Chinese capital. Consequently, the president leaves today for the Asian nation where he would interact with the Nigerian community at the country’s embassy. With the theme, Toward an even…

A Chinese man suspected of economic crimes and corruption in his home country has been arrested in Sweden, authorities said on Thursday. Swedish public broadcaster SVT described the unnamed 54-year-old suspect as "one of the most wanted people in China", adding that he had been in custody in Stockholm since June 25. SVT said the…

The United States has escalated a trade war with China, threatening to impose fresh tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese goods as soon as September, sparking a furious reaction in Beijing.