Secretary for Security Chris Tang and a Shenzhen delegation inspected the new Huanggang port facility on Wednesday to review final preparations, saying the target is to begin operations as early as possible. During a meeting with Shenzhen officials,...

Five people were killed and 17 others injured following a wall collapse in Sichuan province. According to local authorities, the incident happened on Tuesday afternoon in a village in Changning County. An investigation showed that a villager was ho...

Shares of Chinese robotics pioneer, Unitree, soared over six-fold in its Shanghai trading debut on Wednesday, after raising more than US$900 million in its initial public offering. The Hangzhou-based company saw shares spike as much as 629 percent t...

Chinese startup LandSpace on Wednesday recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket – the first time the nation has achieved the feat on land. The ability to return, recover and reuse a booster is crucial to reduce cost and make it easier to p...

A shallow earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck northwestern Qinghai early on Wednesday, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said. It said the tremor struck at a depth of 10 kilometres, in Haixi Prefecture at 5.36 am. The US Geological Survey ...

Hong Kong's annual cyclothon is set to return on October 11th, with its signature 50km non-race ride to be extended to 56 kilometres on a new five-tunnel, three-bridge course. The new route also features the Central Kowloon Bypass that connects Yau ...

Hong Kong students have achieved the city's best-ever result at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), winning two gold medals, one silver and one honourable mention. The four-student team ranked sixth among 92 participating countries or r...

More than 2,600 personnel from various government departments have taken part in a large-scale exercise to prepare for the 94th INTERPOL General Assembly scheduled for late November. The departments that took part in the drill on Monday night were t...

The High Court on Wednesday dismissed the application made by baby Danny's parents for a writ of habeas corpus to challenge the government's custody of the child. The four-month-old boy is currently under the Social Welfare Department's care as part...

Customs said on Wednesday they have seized 200 suspected illegally imported live birds in two separate cases with an estimated total market value of about HK$20,000 at the Lo Wu check point. A 33-year-old incoming mainland female passenger and a 51-...

Goldman Sachs has remained upbeat about offshore wealth management despite concerns over Beijing’s tighter scrutiny of cross-border money flows. The Wall Street investment bank forecast wealth fee income at Standard Chartered and HSBC to grow 30 pe...

Despite July’s sharp sell-off in global semiconductor shares, driven by concerns over AI-linked profitability, artificial intelligence and chips remained China’s most preferred investment themes in August, while more investors moved to hedge tech...

Macau has unveiled a sweeping five-year strategic blueprint to break its long-standing dependence on casino revenues by pivoting towards modern financial services, digital currency adoption and deeper economic integration with mainland China. Under i...

A US guided-missile destroyer that was adrift in the South China Sea without power last month is a sign that America is taxing its reserve capacity as its operation against Iran drags on, according to an analyst. “This is an extremely unusual occur...

The parents of a Hong Kong baby taken into the care of welfare authorities have lost a legal bid to have their home-born baby son returned to them, with the judge arguing the father’s child-raising methods failed to consider the possible risks. Hig...

"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.