Social media works a little differently in China, as the latest change from Weibo shows

China plans to crash a spaceship into an asteroid that is potentially hazardous to Earth to alter its trajectory, a maneuver that caps off a multi-step planetary defense strategy that was outlined by a representative of the nation’s space agency on Sunday, reports SpaceNews.

China plans to set up a constellation around the moon to provide communication and navigation services for future operations on the lunar surface. China will take the lead in demonstrating a small, lunar relay communication and navigation system, Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), told Chinese media on April 24.

Two-metre barriers have appeared all over the city as officials battle to contain a Covid outbreak.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said Cook's recent comments "founder upon the harsh reality of your actions in China."

China’s theatrical box office fell to a new low over the weekend as anti-COVID restrictions forces thousands of cinemas to close. Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway showed that nationwide box office across the world’s most populous country amounted to just $10.5 million. That was the lowest scoring weekend of 2022 and means the year-to-date cumulative at $2.42 billion is now running some 28% below last’s equivalent figure.

China says it will launch three more astronauts to its newest space station in June after the latest crew returned this weekend following a six-month stay in orbit

Tencent Holdings Ltd said it will shut down a service that allowed Chinese gamers to access overseas platforms to play unapproved foreign games, in a sign of tightening compliance as Chinese regulators more closely scrutinize the industry.

Several Chinese platforms such as Quora-like Zhihu and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, will start displaying user provinces amid increasing crackdowns on internet content.

China's broadcasting regulator said on Friday it will ban livestreaming of unauthorised videogames.

Weibo users have been tagging posts with "buying groceries in Shanghai" to voice their frustration about securing groceries during the lockdown.

Taiwan's spy catchers have launched probes into around 100 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching semiconductor engineers and other tech talent, a senior official at the island's Investigation Bureau told Reuters.

Russia is turning to microchip manufactures in China to circumvent western sanctions which have boosted demand for bank cards linked to the Mir payment system, an executive with the domestic payment system said.

China may portray itself as a neutral party in the war in Ukraine, but the message it communicates to its audience at home tells a different story. State news agency Xinhua calls the war “a special military operation” and “the Russia-Ukraine crisis” but never refers to it as an invasion. CCTV, the state broadcaster, mentioned civilian casualties for the first time only three weeks after Russia invaded.

He Jiankui created the first gene-edited children. The price was his career. And his freedom.

BEIJING (AP) — The second “black box” from a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 was found Sunday, raising hopes that it might shed light on why the passenger plane nosedived into a remote mountainous area in southern China last week, killing all 132 people on board.

China is considering adding a mission to Venus to its plans for planetary exploration, according to a senior Chinese space official. The country launched its first interplanetary mission, Tianwen 1, to Mars in 2020; the mission's orbiter and Zhurong rover remain at work at the Red Planet. But the mission won't be alone as China plans to go further afield. Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, told Chinese state media earlier this month that Tianwen 2, 3 and 4 missions are set to follow the Mars mission. (Tianwen means "questions about the heavens" and comes from an ancient Chinese poem.)

A Chinese plane has crashed in rural southern China with 132 onboard in what could be the country's worst aviation disaster in two decades. The Boeing 737 was operated by China Eastern Airlines, a state-run firm and one of China's largest airlines.

Volkswagen once acted as leader and educator to help China create its modern auto industry. Its Santana sedan was the beginning of learning about cars for many of China’s first generation of car owners. For decades since Volkswagen entered China in the 1980s it was the top seller almost every year.

Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government? Eco-lawyer James Thornton takes us inside the country's growing effort to use the power of the courts to address environmental problems -- a little-known story that indicates China could become a champion of legal action on climate.