China's largest search engine operator Baidu topped market estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, as strong growth in ⁠its cloud business helped cushion the hit from persistent weakness in its mainstay advertising business. Baidu, like other...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in the mainland tech hub of Hangzhou on Thursday with a large group of entrepreneurs, hoping to land new contracts a day after meeting President Xi Jinping and announcing an Airbus deal. Merz's first official...

President Xi Jinping has asked senior Communist Party of China officials to ensure that the country's 15th Five-Year Plan, which began in January, gets off to a good start. He made the remarks after reading through the annual work reports of senior ...

Hong Kong's Digital Policy Office and Guangxi's Big Data Development Bureau signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday to strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence, and jointly explore new opportunities for digital development. Speakin...

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday said that China and Germany need to enhance strategic communication and increase mutual trust, as the world becomes more turbulent and intertwined. Xinhua News Agency reported that Xi had made the comments during a ...

Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong said on Thursday that Hong Kong aims to turn its research strengths in diagnostics, therapeutics and elderly care into practical, industry-ready innovations. His remark followed the budget s...

The Department of Justice said it will carefully review a ruling handed down by the Court of Appeal quashing a fraud conviction against Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, and decide whether to appeal. The case revolves around a site ...

Hong Kong's Digital Policy Office and Guangxi's Big Data Development Bureau signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday to strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence, and jointly explore new opportunities for digital development. Speakin...

Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong said an additional HK$900 million to HK$1 billion would be required should Wang Chi House – the only block of flats in Wang Fuk Court not to have been directly ravaged by an inferno in November – be include...

Local deputies to the National People's Congress are seeking support during the upcoming annual political gatherings in Beijing for ways to bolster Hong Kong's key strengths in line with areas targeted for development priority in the national five-ye...

Chinese AI tools have come under fire for allowing deepfake images that critics say are a form of “digital public shaming” targeting women. Free Nora, a grass-roots feminist media collective in China, reported last week that many internet users h...

Premier Li Qiang has called for deeper technological cooperation with Germany and highlighted opportunities under China’s latest five-year plan – a move that could help ease tensions with the EU over the war in Ukraine and years of trade disputes...

In China, some young people are paying steep prices for wish candles sold by influencers, hoping to rekindle a romance. One such influencer, Li Zhuofan, built a following of more than 600,000 on mainland social media after appearing on the Russian re...

Malaysia is weighing new legal measures to curb LGBTQ dating platforms, widening concern among rights groups that the country is pushing deeper into morality-driven internet regulation, even as its control of global app stores remains limited. Author...

Andre Geim, the 67-year-old Nobel Prize-winning physicist known in China as the “father of graphene”, will join the University of Hong Kong as a chair professor in April, according to the university. Geim, who led a team at the University of Manc...

"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.