The world's biggest car show opened on Friday in Beijing, with hundreds of thousands of auto fans descending on the capital to size up the latest sleek, teched-out models on the market. The Auto China exhibition, hosted at two side-by-side venues in...

China and Thailand said they attached great importance to tackling cyber scams during Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to the Southeast Asian country. Wang on Friday held talks with Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul in Bangkok. The tw...

Two giant pandas will be heading to Zoo Atlanta in the United States as part of a Sino-US agreement on giant panda conservation. The China Wildlife Conservation Association said the future Atlanta pandas are male Ping Ping and female Fu Shuang. Bot...

Chinese startup DeepSeek released "preview" versions of a new artificial intelligence model on Friday, more than a year after it stunned the world with a low-cost reasoning model that matched the capabilities of US rivals. The long-awaited DeepSeek-...

The China National Space Administration announced on Friday the results of its international collaboration selection for Tianwen-3, China's first Mars sample-return mission. Following a call for co-operation proposals last April, in which the agency...

Ocean Park said its veterinary team has successfully saved a cownose ray from a life-threatening gastric rupture in what experts believe may be a world-first surgical achievement. In an announcement that coincides with World Veterinary Day on Satur...

Deputy Secretary for Justice Horace Cheung said on Saturday that the Department of Justice would discuss with mainland counterparts the regularising of a pilot scheme that has licensed more than 600 local lawyers to practise in the Greater Bay Area. ...

Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law has vowed to take a tough stance against unethical practices that have long tarnished the city’s tourism reputation, with the mainland's five-day Labour Day Golden Week approaching. The Immigr...

Commissioner of Customs and Excise Chan Tsz-tat on Saturday said that current regulatory prohibitions against fuel smuggling and penalties are sufficient to deter any surge in crime that may result from the high oil prices caused by the current Middl...

City University of Hong Kong announced on Friday that its president, Freddy Boey, had resigned due to personal reasons. In a statement, the university said a global recruitment effort would be launched shortly to fill the vacancy. The university co...

DeepSeek’s long-awaited flagship V4 model has fallen short of its domestic and US rivals, according to a new analysis, as the Chinese artificial intelligence firm struggles to replicate the market-shaking success of its earlier R1 release. The comp...

Financial markets, stock markets especially, appear able to defy gravity despite the global geopolitical and economic situation. A plethora of institutional and individual explanations have been offered as to why, but most seem to miss the point. Whi...

Police have dismantled a motorcycle theft syndicate and arrested five people, believed to be linked to 14 cases across Hong Kong, amid a rise in such crimes in the first quarter of the year. Senior Inspector Fu Ho-shing of the Kowloon West regional c...

The South China Morning Post has won 74 awards at the 47th Best of News Design Creative Competition, including three silver and 11 bronze medals. An infographic on Hong Kong’s fencing boom was a stand-out winner in results announced by the Society ...

An unusual series of cargoes of military-grade fuel that is due to sail from the US across the Pacific Ocean illustrates how far the war in Iran has disrupted the global oil supply chain. A request for offers to ship 235,000 barrels of jet fuel from ...

"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.