President Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un, president of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), agreed on Tuesday that the two countries should carry forward their great traditional friendship from generation to generation. Xi ...

China's foreign trade grew 16.9 percent year on year in May in yuan-denominated terms, data from the General Administration of Customs showed on Tuesday. The total value of goods imports and exports reached 4.45 trillion yuan, remaining above four t...

President Xi Jinping said China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) should boost strategic cooperation and firmly safeguard their respective sovereignty, security and development interests in talks with the DPRK's leader Kim Jong Un ...

The government on Monday announced plans to expand a scheme that allows Guangdong residents to drive to Hong Kong to eventually cover the entire province. Starting July 25, five more Greater Bay Area (GBA) cities – Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Huiz...

President Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for a state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim Jong-un, president of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, welcomed Xi and...

The Chief Executive-in-Council proposed a two percent across-the-board pay increase for the city’s 170,000 civil servants on Tuesday, backdated to April 1. If approved by the Legislative Council, the pay rise will cost about HK$6 billion extra. S...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday that a proposed piece of subsidiary legislation to clearly define the classification mechanism for “other offences endangering national security under the law of the HKSAR” will make the relevant laws clea...

Hong Kong’s rule of law is the essential engine driving both civic integrity and economic prosperity, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said on Tuesday, adding that the fight against corruption had become so deeply embedded in the city’s culture tha...

A basketball coach at a secondary school in Siu Sai Wan alleged to have resorted to corporal punishment on a student is understood to have been arrested on suspicion of common assault. Yung Kam-wah, who formerly played for the SAR basketball team, w...

Celebratory events across 18 districts such as flag-raising ceremonies, marching performances, and carnivals, as well as freebies and discounts will help mark the 29th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR. In announcing the celebra...

A summit between Russia and Asean next week promises to ease Southeast Asia’s energy crisis and Moscow’s diplomatic isolation – but not all of the bloc’s leaders are expected to show up. Analysts are also divided on whether Philippine Preside...

China is moving to leverage data as a core strategic asset, aiming to build industry-specific data sets to power its next-generation artificial intelligence models, as developers worldwide grapple with a looming data drought. On Monday, the country�...

Beyond the diplomatic choreography of last month’s Xi-Trump summit, what are the structural implications of a less confrontational US-China relationship for the Asia-Pacific? The subsequent visits by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India and U...

Southeast Asia’s extensive supply chains could be disrupted if it faces planned US tariffs over Washington’s accusations of forced labour in 60 economies, as analysts say the proposal is just a way for President Donald Trump to resurrect his trad...

"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.