President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday China and Uruguay should boost cooperation in various areas, including trade and infrastructure construction, in talks with visiting Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi in Beijing. According to Xinhua News Agency, X...

China on Monday executed four leading members of Myanmar-based scam syndicates. They were members of the Bai family criminal group based in northern Myanmar, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court said in a statement. The four had been sentenced ...

A total of 19 people received jail terms ranging from six years and six months to two years on Monday for their roles in a fire that killed 29 and injured 42 at a Beijing hospital in 2023. The Fengtai District People's Court in Beijing announced fir...

The Spring Festival travel rush began in China on Monday as the country ushered in its largest annual population migration. A total of 9.5 billion passenger trips are expected this year, which will be a historic high, according to Xinhua News Agency...

Alibaba said on Monday it would spend three billion yuan to attract users to its Qwen AI app during the Lunar New Year holiday, heating up a race between China's largest tech firms. The pledge by Alibaba, which triples the spending promised earlier ...

Hong Kong retail sales rose by 6.6 percent year on year in December by value to HK$35 billion, buoyed by more online transactions and a stronger showing by the jewellery, watches and clocks, and valuable gifts segment. That is up from the revised 6...

People will be allowed to bring dogs into designated restaurants as soon as the middle of this year as the government moves to amend a regulation that has imposed a blanket ban on the presence of canines in eateries for more than three decades. The ...

Twenty-one percent more data breaches were recorded last year compared to 2024 while doxxing cases dropped overall, the city’s privacy watchdog said on Tuesday. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said it was notified of 246...

The Housing Authority said on Tuesday households affected by two redevelopments who find themselves in financial difficulties despite the cash and relocation allowances being offered could still have recourse to community service or care teams for fu...

The Housing Authority on Monday approved the clearance and rehousing arrangements for Sai Wan Estate in Kennedy Town and Phase 1 of Ma Tau Wai Estate in To Kwa Wan as part of redevelopment plans. Residents of Sai Wan Estate are required to move out ...

A feng shui-obsessed Chinese woman who kept repositioning a traffic mirror caused multiple accidents in her residential compound. Residents of a Shanghai community were troubled by frequent road accidents at a sharp turn for the past two months. Peop...

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up StepFun has unveiled a lightweight AI model that it says punches above its weight, rivalling larger systems from domestic competitors including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI as competition intensifies in the countr...

A veteran Chinese investigative journalist has been detained by police in Sichuan province after publishing an article critical of local officials, raising fresh concerns about the abuse of power. On Monday evening, police in Jinjiang district in the...

Hong Kong’s retail sales rose 1 per cent in 2025 after recording a 6.6 per cent year‑on‑year increase in December, with authorities saying that improving consumer sentiment and growth in visitor arrivals would continue to support the sector. Fi...

Around 85 per cent of insurance claims for damages caused by Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades have been settled, with the amount paid out totalling almost HK$510 million (US$65.3 million). The city’s Insurance Authority said on Tuesday that ...

"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.