Defence minister made an uncompromising call on Monday for the "reunification" of Taiwan with the mainland, telling a high level defence forum that the process was something "no force" could stop. China will not stop in its efforts towards "realisin...

Taipei has accused the Hong Kong government of using a murder case involving two Hongkongers to attempt to degrade the island's sovereignty. The comment, from Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, comes after Taipei said it would not accept the return...

The ashes of late reformist leader and former premier, Zhao Ziyang, have finally been buried in a Beijing cemetery – 14 years after his death. The former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party opposed the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen S...

Backlash is growing in Southeast Asia over a scene in the animated film "Abominable" that features a map of the South China Sea showing Beijing's contested claims in the flashpoint waterway. The Philippines' foreign secretary has called for the cont...

The CEO of Apple has met with the top market regulator in China, a statement said on Friday, a week after the tech giant faced heavy criticism over an app Beijing accused of supporting Hong Kong protesters. Apple removed HKmap.live from the App Stor...

The Eastern Court on Monday shortened the curfew hours of Demosisto leaders Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam after their lawyers said they need more time to work in the District Council election campaigns. The trio are facing charges in connect...

Riot police took over Yuen Long MTR Station on Monday afternoon as the public were barred from the building, several hours before the start of a planned rally to mark a brutal gang attack on passengers three months previously. MTR officials closed t...

The Transport Department said on Monday that around 100 traffic lights are down in the Yau Tsim Mong area after demonstrators vandalised them during a massive anti-government protest on Sunday. Authorities say many of the lights are out on busy tho...

The Secretary for the Environment said the government will consider cutting the number of exemptions from the current plastic bag levy scheme, to effectively reduce the number of plastic bags used, without significantly affecting people's consumption...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Police Commissioner Stephen Lo visited Kowloon Mosque on Monday morning and offered apologies, a day after the front of the site on Nathan Road was sprayed with blue dye from a police water cannon. The statement issued...

Hong Kong’s government is looking at relocating the city’s 65-hectare River Trade Terminal to make way for a major new town in the northwest of the city, the development minister has said.As one of the land-boosting measures announced in the poli...

China and South Korea are set to hold high-level defence talks on Monday for the first time since 2014, when tensions emerged over Seoul’s plans to allow deployment of a US anti-missile system.Lieutenant General Shao Yuanming, deputy chief of the J...

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is at it again – teasing a presidential run. At 77, he won’t even be the oldest in the field, and the billionaire is certainly not short of funding to be able to throw his hat in the ring.Over the past seve...

UBS Group is cutting about 40 jobs in the Asia-Pacific region as part of a global push to trim costs and combine its trading units, according to a person familiar with the matter.The staff reductions are roughly split between UBS’s markets and inve...

The status of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is set out in two slogans: “one country, two systems” and “50 years no change”. There seems to be an assumption that the two are linked, that nothing must change in the Hong Kong syste...

"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.