China

Beijing shifts its story on the latest confrontation between Chinese and Australian forces, claiming that one of its fighter jets intercepted an Australian helicopter because it was trying to spy on naval exercises in the Yellow Sea.

TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the US government over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it's sold to another company, arguing that it vaguely paints it as a threat to national security to get around the First Amendment.

Diplomatic tensions with China have resurfaced after an Australian navy helicopter was targeted by flares over international waters.

Netflix's adaptation of Chinese sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem is just one chapter of the series' challenging journey to the West. The books appear to tell a China story that Beijing is hesitant to share with the world — especially when it also involves a murder.

A Chinese military jet has detonated flares near an Australian Navy helicopter which was operating in international waters, forcing the pilot to take evasive action to avoid an accident.

In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation's entertainment industry: Don't feature any hip-hop artists. Six years later, the genre is more popular than ever.

Young office workers in China are rebelling against traditional workplace demands to dress up by wearing casual clothes as part of a popular social media trend known as "wear a gross outfit to work".

From cash payments and extended parental leave to subsidised education, some of Asia's largest economies are spending millions to try to get people to have children and reverse declining fertility rates.

The move to detail the secret and unwritten deal further threatens to escalate tensions in the disputed waterway, where much of the world's trade passes through.

The launch was broadcast on state media and hailed a success, with the complex mission the latest push by China into space.

Former foreign minister and diplomat Jeremiah Manele has been elected as the new prime minister of Solomon Islands — and he's expected to maintain close ties with China.

The Australian share market closed higher after the US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell indicated a US rate hike is unlikely. NAB says its half-year profit fell 11.9 per cent from intense competition in the lending industry. 

Witnesses told local media they heard a loud noise and saw a hole open up several meters wide behind them. 

The Philippines accuses China's coast guard of harassing and damaging two of its boats in a disputed area of the South China Sea, rejecting Beijing's position that it had expelled those vessels from the hotly contested shoal.

Manasseh Sogavare switched his country's diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China and amplified combative stoushes with Western democracies. What does his departure as prime minister mean for Solomon Islands and the region?

The remaining slice of a 200-year-old farming property in Tasmania's north-west is up for sale, after years mired in controversy, unrealised grand ambitions, allegations of animal cruelty and mismanagement, and the recent loss of a major milk contract.

Footage posted by Chinese state media shows widespread devastation in southern city of Guangzhou after a tornado swept through the day before, killing five people, injuring dozens others and damaging more than 140 buildings.

China's coast guard confronts Japanese lawmakers in waters claimed by both countries in the East China Sea, which is the latest in a series of maritime disputes involving China and its neighbours.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk visits Beijing on an unannounced trip, where he is expected to discuss the rollout of the company's Full Self-Driving software, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

As young people in China feel the squeeze of cost of living and social pressures, many are looking to the country's forgotten older cities where they can buy a home for the price of rent in a megacity and pursue the kind of life they want, not one forced upon them.

The US and China have ramped up diplomatic talks despite major differences on trade and issues in the Indo-Pacific.

An investigation led by a Swiss prosecutor will look into how the World Anti-Doping Agency handled positive doping tests of 23 Chinese swimmers in the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympic Games. 

A pink Moon rises, baby otters meet the public for the first time, a rare white squirrel is spotted playing in a Beijing park and China hosts an amazing sand sculpture competition — it's been another busy week across the vast Asia Pacific region. 

A ban on TikTok is now almost inevitable in the US as President Joe Biden signs legislation banning the app unless the Chinese-based parent company ByteDance sells the app to an approved buyer.  Here's what you need to know. 

China is grappling with a declining birth rate, an aging population and a slowing economy. The Chinese Communist Party is urging its citizens to have more children, but many are saying no.