Nearly 100 Chinese nationals were missing in Nepal in ⁠the area affected by a massive mudslide and flooding, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. "In the disaster-stricken area on the Nepalese side, the number of Chinese citizens missing is near...

China and the United States should earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, remove disruptions and overcome obstacles to high-level exchanges between the two countries, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, according to...

Profits at China's industrial firms increased 17.6 percent year on year in the first seven months of the year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday. These industrial firms, with an annual main business revenue of at least 2...

Mainland authorities said three people died and 558 were still missing in the wake of a mudslide at the border between Nepal and China, state media reported on Thursday, citing local officials. "A press conference was held in Shigatse, Xizang, to re...

The death toll in Nepal from the flash floods near the border with China has reached 165, with 826 others still missing, a Nepalese government agency said on Thursday. Almost 500 foreigners were among those unaccounted for, police and tourism offici...

Commissioner for Labour Sam Hui said a refined heat stress at work warning system will be introduced on Friday to improve worker safety. His announcement on Thursday comes after concerns were raised this month, when only the lowest amber alert was ...

The government on Thursday announced new initiatives to improve the efficiency of its 24-hour one-stop call centre hotline 1823 through the use of artificial intelligence. Acting Commissioner for Digital Policy Daniel Cheung said the 1823 centre han...

Hong Kong residential home prices have snapped a 13-month run of gains, according to data by the Rating and Valuation Department. Its property price index measuring average home prices in all sizes dropped 0.46 percent to 321.5 in July On a year-on...

An education veteran on Thursday said the trial period of a mechanism that helps to identify primary four to six students with higher suicidal risks at an early stage, and offer timely support, should be extended for at least a year. The nine-month...

The Observatory issued the red rainstorm warning at 5.05am on Thursday as heavy rain battered the city. Classes of all AM schools and whole-day schools were suspended. The Drainage Services Department asked members of the public to report any stre...

Hong Kong’s Heat Stress at Work warning system will be automatically upgraded when temperatures reach 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) across multiple districts, after labour authorities lowered its activation thresholds following criticism. Two ...

China’s Zhipu AI has launched its latest open-weight model, GLM-5.3-Flash – previously code-named Ox Alpha – saying that the system ran entirely on a cluster of 100,000 domestically produced chips during a high-profile stealth trial. The announ...

The next big competition in artificial intelligence is over science. The question is shifting from who has the largest model to who can use AI to shorten the discovery cycle: forming a hypothesis, running simulations, designing an experiment, operati...

China should forge a national consensus on “regaining mastery of the oceans” and direct overseas investment returns into defence spending to brace for sea-power competition with the US, according to a prominent Chinese academic. Di Dongsheng, ass...

The operator of the Hong Kong government’s 1823 platform will expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the year to transcribe, summarise and triage residents’ inquiries, freeing frontline staff to handle more complicated cases. The D...

"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.