News in Chinese
520,719 news articles written in Chinese, across every country that publishes in it, free to search without an API key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is udn.com with 87,459 articles, 16.8% of the total, followed by www.hk01.com, www.worldjournal.com. By country it splits into Taiwan (251,350), Hong Kong (84,770), China (47,236) and 19 more. Daily volume averages about 6,998 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 8,773 on 2026-10-15.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=zh&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?lang=zh&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-23T07:00 | 京都百年名邸烘焙職人首度來港！ 森林麵包聯乘神戶人氣麵包店 推出6款限定麵包 必試忌廉吉士包+明太子法棍(有片) | am730 | www.am730.com.hk |
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2026-10-23T04:14 | 薔琵暴風圈將觸陸！最強風雨來了 全台停班停課一覽 | www.setn.com |
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Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
udn.com | 87,459 | 16.8% | query |
www.hk01.com | 30,862 | 5.9% | query |
www.worldjournal.com | 29,312 | 5.6% | query |
www.setn.com | 24,644 | 4.7% | query |
cryptofeed.news | 23,760 | 4.6% | query |
luminews.my | 19,204 | 3.7% | query |
www.nownews.com | 18,120 | 3.5% | query |
www.zaobao.com.sg | 16,042 | 3.1% | query |
www.cna.com.tw | 15,151 | 2.9% | query |
www.am730.com.hk | 14,973 | 2.9% | query |
ctinews.com | 12,890 | 2.5% | query |
www.chaincatcher.com | 11,766 | 2.3% | query |
www.xinouzhou.com | 11,498 | 2.2% | query |
huaren.us | 11,266 | 2.2% | query |
www.epochtimes.com | 10,768 | 2.1% | query |
reddot.my | 10,274 | 2.0% | query |
metrohk.com.hk | 9,274 | 1.8% | query |
ausnznet.com | 9,152 | 1.8% | query |
www.881903.com | 8,296 | 1.6% | query |
www.stheadline.com | 7,616 | 1.5% | query |
molihua.org | 7,377 | 1.4% | query |
www.etnet.com.hk | 6,639 | 1.3% | query |
www.ctwant.com | 6,552 | 1.3% | query |
www.ithome.com | 6,543 | 1.3% | query |
www.8world.com | 6,430 | 1.2% | query |
Countries publishing in Chinese
A language is rarely one country. Filter by both when you need a specific national perspective.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| TW | Taiwan | 251,350 | 48.3% |
| HK | Hong Kong | 84,770 | 16.3% |
| CN | China | 47,236 | 9.1% |
| MY | Malaysia | 29,697 | 5.7% |
| SG | Singapore | 22,480 | 4.3% |
| US | United States | 17,066 | 3.3% |
| AU | Australia | 9,152 | 1.8% |
| KZ | Kazakhstan | 7,067 | 1.4% |
| JP | Japan | 5,072 | 1.0% |
| GB | United Kingdom | 2,327 | 0.4% |
| NZ | New Zealand | 2,142 | 0.4% |
| KR | South Korea | 1,765 | 0.3% |
| VN | Vietnam | 601 | 0.1% |
| CA | Canada | 479 | 0.1% |
| AT | Austria | 354 | 0.1% |
Domain zones
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| com | global commercial | 322,496 | 61.9% |
| hk | Hong Kong | 34,964 | 6.7% |
| tw | Taiwan | 34,336 | 6.6% |
| my | Malaysia | 29,478 | 5.7% |
| news | news publications | 25,742 | 4.9% |
| sg | Singapore | 16,048 | 3.1% |
| net | global network | 12,131 | 2.3% |
| us | United States | 11,266 | 2.2% |
| org | organisations | 9,810 | 1.9% |
| kz | Kazakhstan | 7,067 | 1.4% |
| cn | China | 6,277 | 1.2% |
| mg | mg | 4,606 | 0.9% |
| nz | New Zealand | 1,917 | 0.4% |
| kr | South Korea | 1,176 | 0.2% |
| cc | generic | 989 | 0.2% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 7,647 | |
2026-10-21 | 8,337 | |
2026-10-20 | 7,043 | |
2026-10-19 | 4,433 | |
2026-10-18 | 5,738 | |
2026-10-17 | 5,699 | |
2026-10-16 | 8,314 | |
2026-10-15 | 8,773 | |
2026-10-14 | 8,791 | |
2026-10-13 | 8,389 | |
2026-10-12 | 8,482 | |
2026-10-11 | 5,807 | |
2026-10-10 | 6,201 | |
2026-10-09 | 9,417 |
Combine with other filters
# Chinese, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=zh&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Chinese, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=zh&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Chinese, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?lang=zh&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"