President Xi Jinping met with Myanmar's President Min Aung Hlaing in Beijing on Tuesday, seeking to bolster trade and security ties between the two countries. Xi held a welcome ceremony for the visiting Myanmar president in the Great Hall of the Peo...

The National Immigration Administration projected on Tuesday an 11.7-percent year-on-year increase in boundary entries and exits during the upcoming Tuen Ng Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, break, with a daily average of 2.2 million crossings natio...

Home prices in China's first-tier cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, increased month on month in May, official data showed on Tuesday. Prices for new homes in the four first-tier cities edged up 0.2 percent month on month in M...

China's value-added industrial output increased by 5.4 percent year on year in the first five months of 2026, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday. For May alone, output grew 4.5 percent year on year and rose 0.4 percent com...

China on Monday said it welcomes the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States ending their months-long conflict. "China hopes that the United States and Iran will sign the first-phase MoU on schedule, and that all relevan...

Lawmakers were supportive of the government's decision to grant a pay increase to all civil servants, but several legislators expressed disappointment over what they viewed as an inadequate adjustment that failed to keep pace with inflation and priva...

Two former heads of departments at CUHK Medical Centre have been charged by the corruption watchdog over alleged fraud and leaking confidential details of a probe. In a statement, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said the hospita...

The National Immigration Administration projected on Tuesday an 11.7-percent year-on-year increase in boundary entries and exits during the upcoming Tuen Ng Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, break, with a daily average of 2.2 million crossings natio...

Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office Director Xia Baolong inspected light public housing units in Yuen Long and visited residents as he began a two-day visit to the SAR. He aims to inspect the Northern Metropolis development as well as the SAR’s ali...

Secretary for Justice Paul Lam on Tuesday said the city is committed to advancing digital developments through artificial intelligence while combating data misuse and privacy breaches, as outlined by the nation's 15th Five-Year Plan. Officiating at ...

When the ground tore open beneath the Philippines last week, Roldan Dante was working in a nearby town. By the time he could return, his home in Glan, Sarangani province, had collapsed. His wife and two young children were gone. “If only I had know...

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake shook part of central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on Tuesday, causing scattered damage and rattling residents of a city devastated by a quake and tsunami eight years ago. The strong shaking sent people fleeing into open a...

“Overcapacity” has become the buzzword in Washington and Brussels. American and European policymakers insist China churns out far more steel, electric vehicles and green technology than it can absorb, flooding the world with subsidised goods. Yet...

China’s ruling Communist Party has announced a new branch of President Xi Jinping’s political thought, which stresses governing the party with discipline and unified leadership. During a national conference on party building on Monday, the concep...

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has launched a data privacy academy as part of efforts to align with the national strategy of developing the city into an international high-calibre talent hub. Announcing the news at the 30th Anniversary Privacy Protec...

"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.