The Latest Breaking News from Shanghai

Forest fires, droughts and heatwaves across the country is forcing provinces to reduce power consumption

HONG KONG Reuters) - Zhang Meng had a breakdown last December. The 20-year-old found herself sobbing on the stairs of her dorm, driven to despair by repeated COVID lockdowns of her university campus in Beijing.

Michael Herd spent 14 years teaching in Shanghai where he honed his craft as a comedian by night

A Shanghai court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, not seen in public since 2017, to 13 years in jail and fined his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate 55.03 billion yuan ($8.1 billion), a record in China.

The world's two largest Communist countries have a lot in common. Just over a year ago, Vietnam's party leaders gave General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong an unprecedented third five-year term as the top leader, crediting him with successfully containing the Covid-19 pandemic. China's President Xi Jinping is poised to win…

Shanghai, Moscow and Tehran have the highest levels of NO2 pollution, according to the research

Former Chelsea man Oscar finds himself stuck in China after his club, Shanghai SIPG, blocked a move to Flamengo despite the player posing in a shirt ahead of the planned switch

Health authorities try to lock down customers at a Chinese Ikea store over an "abnormal" coronavirus test result as dozens of people flee.

Chaotic scenes at an Ikea in Shanghai saw panicked shoppers rush for the exits as authorities tried to lock down the store over a COVID-19 case.