Beijing on Friday welcomed Washington’s decision to not extend a Hong Kong-related national emergency. The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) called the move “an important step in implementing the consensus reached during China-US economic and trade con...

China and Pakistan have urged the United States and Iran to stop fighting and resume negotiations. The call followed a meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar in Shanghai. The two sides expressed "deep conce...

Beijing accused US President Donald Trump of "fabrications" on Friday, after he said China had meddled in US election data, reviving his long-standing baseless claims of voter fraud ahead of midterm polls many expect him to dispute. Trump said in a ...

Nine people have so far been rescued after a rainfall-induced landslide occurred along a section of the Wujiang River in southwest Chongqing municipality on Friday. None of those rescued sustained life-threatening injuries, according to local author...

Mainland artificial intelligence startup Moonshot on Friday unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that it said is the world's largest open-weight AI system and delivers performance approaching US giant Anthropic's frontier Fable model. Th...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong’s AI development has moved from individual initiatives to a systematic approach, with a goal to empower all sectors with artificial intelligence. Hong Kong has always been participating in tec...

Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn said the government is studying whether the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) should step in early for building maintenance projects, on top of taking up a more active role in advising owners how to evaluate cont...

Legislative Council President Starry Lee on Sunday said an "historic" Beijing study tour for the entire legislature would enable lawmakers to learn about the latest national developments. She made the remarks before departing for the capital with fe...

The government will take reference from tests conducted ahead of the Kai Tak Sports Park opening to prepare for Huanggang port's coming onstream, Secretary for Security Chris Tang said on Saturday. He was speaking a day after lawmakers passed the Hu...

Chief Executive John Lee will hold a dialogue and exchange session with lawmakers for the first time on July 28 to further strengthen understanding and communication between the two sides. The “Chief Executive's Dialogue with Legislative Council M...

When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was laid to rest in Tehran earlier this month, Indonesia, home to more Muslims than any other nation on Earth, decided to send only its ambassador – at first. The decision raised questions not only about Jakarta’s non-...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will make ⁠his first trip to the White House this week to present a plan to US President Donald Trump on how to disarm Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and secure Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon. Aoun, who serv...

Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam, secretary general of the Reform Party (RP), has died, his wife said on Sunday. He was 67 years old. Jeyaretnam died in his sleep, surrounded by family, on Saturday, said Amanda Jeyaretnam in a post on her husband’s social med...

The Chinese city of Changzhou is building what it claims will be the country’s first city-level “green token factory”, as local governments race to answer Beijing’s call to power massive artificial intelligence computing demands with clean en...

A writer from central China once hailed as a “literary prodigy” has had her master’s degree revoked for plagiarism. Jiang Fangzhou, 36, grew up in an ordinary family in Hubei province. Her mother is a Chinese-language teacher and online writer,...

"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.