The cost of popular pork rib dishes is soaring on the mainland after Beijing suspended imports of pigmeat from major supplier Germany, hurting restaurants still recovering from the coronavirus hit earlier this year. Pork ribs are one of best-selling...

Mainland China reported seven new Covid-19 cases on September 23, down from 10 reported a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Thursday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all new cases were imported infe...

TikTok owner ByteDance has applied for a licence in China in line with the country's tech export requirements, as it strives to seal a deal with Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc for TikTok's US operations to stave off a US ban on the app. The application...

Taiwan scrambled jet fighters on Wednesday after Chinese warplanes buzzed the island for the third straight day, its defence ministry said, the latest in a recent string of incursions sparked by a high-level US visit. Two Chinese Y-8 anti-submarine ...

China on Wednesday eased entry restrictions for foreigners holding certain residence permits, an incremental step towards reopening borders closed to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The country has gradually allowed more foreigners to enter after an...

Ocean Park said it's against the idea of moving and being located next to Hong Kong Disneyland after the government decided not to to extend an option for Disney for an adjacent plot in Penny's Bay. While there have been calls to use the 60-hectare ...

Activist Joshua Wong is said to have been arrested when he reported to Central Police Station this afternoon. A post on his twitter page says the arrest is related to participating in an unauthorised assembly on October 5 last year. It said he was ...

Eight media groups said on Thursday they are considering a legal challenge against a police decision to change the media accreditation policy that took effect on Wednesday. The vice chairman of Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) Ronson Chan sa...

Pro-Beijing legislator and lawyer Junius Ho has reportedly been summoned to attend a hearing by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in London, which will decide whether to remove him from the UK register for alleged misconduct. That's according to ...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has accused the Foreign Correspondents' Club of "attempting to endorse the rioters" and "sowing more trouble" in Hong Kong for criticising the new media accreditation policy that took effect on Wednesday. In a strongly-w...

Vietnamese officials being suspected of recruiting spies for the Soviet Union, a set of intersex twins being born in Hong Kong, and the government considering implementing petrol rationing made the headlines 40 years ago this week.September 21, 1980�...

Thailand began legal action on Thursday against Facebook and Twitter for ignoring requests to take down content, in its first such move against major internet firms.The digital ministry filed legal complaints with cybercrime police after the two soci...

Hong Kong customs has made the year’s biggest seizure so far of endangered pangolins’ scales, finding a tonne of the contraband along with 13kg of dried snake gall bladders in a shipping container arriving from Indonesia.The HK$6.2 million (US$80...

China’s pledge to become carbon neutral by 2060 has been hailed as a critical step towards slowing global warming and one that could turn the nation’s next five year plan into “the most crucial document in global energy market history”.But ho...

Chinese students have taken their anger to social media to protest against what they called a rigid, one-size-fits-all restriction imposed by university management as classes resumed on campus over the past month.Since schools reopened in late August...

"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.