The head of the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday called for countries to make "urgent repairs" to address fiscal balances as bond yields spike and pressure grows on governments to manage ballooning debt. "What is our loudest call to policyma...

China's exports surged 36.3 percent in September from a year earlier, new data showed on Wednesday, putting the nation on track to exceed last year's record trade surplus. The new data from the General Administration of Customs exceeded expectations...

China's producer prices rose at their fastest pace in more than four years in September while consumer inflation edged up, as higher oil and commodities lifted factory-gate costs. The producer price index (PPI) rose 5 percent from a year earlier, ne...

China on Tuesday handed out death sentences to three leading members of a criminal gang led by the Wei family, which carried out criminal activities, including telecom fraud and gambling, in Myanmar. Three others were sentenced to life imprisonment,...

Visa, the global digital payments giant, said on Tuesday it has received approval from the People's Bank of China (PBOC) to begin formal preparations to establish a domestic bankcard clearing institution in the country. The approval, announced by Vi...

Minister of Finance Lan Foan will lead the nation's delegation at the Apec Finance Ministers' Meeting to be held in Hong Kong next Tuesday and Wednesday, according to mainland authorities. The Ministry of Finance in Beijing said on Wednesday Lan wil...

Four franchised bus operators are applying for fare increases ranging from 8.1 to 17.7 percent. Kowloon Motor Bus is seeking 16 percent, Citybus 17.7 percent, Long Win 8.1 percent, and New Lantao Bus 9.8 percent. The Transport and Logistics Bureau ...

The MTR Corporation on Wednesday apologised for two successive rush-hour service disruptions on its Kwun Tong line within a span of 15 hours. Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan said the government was "highly concerned" over the incide...

The High Court sentenced a former assistant care home warden on Wednesday to 13 years behind bars for raping a mentally incapacitated resident five times in 2024. The court had earlier found Chung Pui-kei, who was 38 years old at the time of the off...

The Centre for Health Protection is urging people who have recently visited a Mong Kok sauna to get screened for Mpox, after a patron was confirmed with the viral illness. The 39-year-old man was said to have had high-risk sexual contact with other ...

Beijing’s Liaoning aircraft carrier on Wednesday started its second training in the western Pacific this year, with the drill likely to coincide with an expanded US-Japan military exercise that may have implications for a Taiwan contingency. The Pe...

Two leaders of India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) were remanded in custody for five days on Wednesday, as police ratcheted up efforts to clamp down on anti-election commission protests. CJP activists and opposition parties have defied a ...

Hong Kong should make better use of its public gyms by allowing online safety briefings and penalising no-shows, an industry leader and a lawmaker have urged after the ombudsman identified management loopholes. The Office of the Ombudsman launched th...

China’s integrated circuit (IC) exports surged 136 per cent year on year in September to US$45 billion, exceeding the 108 per cent growth rate in the first nine months of the year in a sign of the country’s rising influence in the global semicond...

When news broke last week that three newly completed housing blocks were to be demolished without ever having been occupied, I suffered an immediate attack of deja vu. In early 1974, I was in the first wave of recruits to the Operations Department of...

"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.