The purchasing managers' index for the nation's manufacturing sector stood at 49.2 in July, down from 50.3 from June, official data showed on Friday. Huo Lihui, a chief statistician with the National Bureau of Statistics, attributed the fall to mult...

It won't take long for Huanggang port to open even though the official date has not been announced, according to former secretary for security Lai Tung-kwok. He was speaking as the Hong Kong Port Area was established as being subject to the SAR’s ...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan has told RTHK that boosting infrastructure links between the Northern Metropolis and mainland cities is needed to strengthen connectivity within the Greater Bay Area and better leverage its geographical advantages. Spea...

Coal-fired power accounted for 49.7 percent of the nation's total electricity output in the first half of 2026, marking the first time its share has fallen below 50 percent and a new milestone in the country's transition towards a green and low-carbo...

A Politburo meeting held on Thursday set out priorities for the world's second-largest economy in the second half of 2026. President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, presided over the...

Police have reclassified an assault case in Tsim Sha Tsui as murder, following the death of a man on Friday. Officers received a report on Sunday that a man had been assaulted inside a bar on Cameron Road. They later found the 32-year-old victim u...

Hong Kong, China, is sending six golfers to the Asian Games in Japan, and they are looking to ace it. Confidence in the team, equally split between the sexes, will be riding high as Taichi Kho, who won the gold medal at the last Games, will be teein...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of forgery relating to fire service installation. The Fire Services Department said its investigators began a probe after a fire extinguisher exploded in a restaurant on Lantau in September, injuring a woman. Th...

It won't take long for Huanggang port to open even though the official date has not been announced, according to former secretary for security Lai Tung-kwok. He was speaking as the Hong Kong Port Area was established as being subject to the SAR’s ...

A motorcyclist has died after being run over by a car in Tai Po on Thursday evening. Police received a report at 7.38pm that the 39-year-old man was riding along Tolo Highway towards Sha Tin when he lost control of his motorcycle near Ha Wun Yiu. H...

Last Thursday, the European Union added 14 Chinese companies to its latest round of sanctions, accusing them of providing support for Russia’s war against Ukraine – but few of the names were recognisable to anyone outside narrow trading and compl...

China’s factory activity unexpectedly slipped into contraction for the first time in five months, and construction activity fell to its lowest since the pandemic, underscoring a divide in the nation’s economy that complicates efforts to revive gr...

Hong Kong’s economy expanded by 4.3 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2026, with the government expecting “solid growth” to continue for the remainder of the year. A government spokesman attributed the robust momentum to buoyant ex...

Singapore announced on Friday it took possession of 38 Oxley Road, the former home of its founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, and would study how it could be developed into a public space, ending years of public debate over what to do with the prop...

HSBC Holdings has agreed to sell its US$25 billion Australian home loan portfolio to a unit of Blackstone, which is expected to result in an immaterial pre-tax loss of less than US$100 million for the group by the first half of 2027, according to a s...

"Borrow a boat to sail in the sea -- we will find more ways to use the opportunities brought by the Belt and Road Initiative," he said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Monday discussed bilateral ties and the situation on the Korean Peninsula on phone, pledging close contact by various means to promptly exchange views on major issues of common con...

Agricultural products have been exempted duty by the FTA , but most Thai rice sold in China ' s supermarkets is imported through regular channels , without taking advantage of the FTA , she said .

Public services including employment , education , healthcare and social security will be improved in the area , he said .

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, pledged on Friday to expand mutually beneficial cooperation and to manage their differences based on mutual respect.

Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes after a protest against the visit of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Jerusalem, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Jan. 23, 2018.

Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer has accused the U.S. of hitting Australia with a "diplomatic insult."

Laszlo Kover (1st L), Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, speaks at a conference of the parliament speakers of the Western Balkans in Budapest, Hungary on Oct. 27, 2017.

Two people were killed and transportation systems and businesses severely disrupted as Typhoon Lan lashed central Japan's Pacific coast after making landfall early Monday.

The U.S. decision to withdraw from UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, has triggered worldwide calls for supporting multilateralism amid world challenges.