The People's Liberation Army Navy on Monday successfully conducted the test launch of a strategic missile by a submarine. It said a strategic nuclear submarine launched the missile, which carries a dummy warhead towards high seas in the Pacific Ocea...

Nanning, capital of Guangxi region, raised its flood-control response to the highest level as rivers and reservoirs swelled with the passage of Typhoon Maysak, state media said on Monday. Authorities in Nanning, a city of nearly nine million people,...

Two vessels of the People's Liberation Army Navy concluded a five-day visit to Hong Kong on Monday with their officers leaving students with a memorable impression as rain fell. At a farewell ceremony held at the PLA Naval Base on Stonecutters Islan...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has successfully arrived at a distance of 20 kilometres from the asteroid 2016HO3, enabling it to begin scientific exploration after an approximately 400-day journey of about one billion kilometres, the China National Space Ad...

Students on Sunday said they were impressed by the quality of Xinjiang cotton after they learnt about the fibre's production there as part of RTHK's Solar Project, led by Director of Broadcasting Angelina Kwan. More than 100 pupils visited cotton fi...

At least 63 students from 15 local schools clinched top marks in the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme this year, according to results released on Monday. Victoria Shanghai Academy (VSA), a private school, reported nine perfect scorers to ...

Secretary for Education Christine Choi on Monday said tenders for three campus sites in the first of three university town areas designated for the Northern Metropolis would be launched within two months. The three plots in Hung Shui Kiu – which a...

Two vessels of the People's Liberation Army Navy concluded a five-day visit to Hong Kong on Monday with their officers leaving students with a memorable impression as rain fell. At a farewell ceremony held at the PLA Naval Base on Stonecutters Islan...

A member of the Advisory Committee on the Northern Metropolis on Monday said the government could fine-tune tender terms for sites in the mega project to make them more appealing. This comes as the Hung Shui Kiu pilot area – the first of three pil...

The lawmaker representing the medical sector on Monday said it was far from ideal that it took the Medical Council 16 years to handle a complaint. David Lam's comment came after the medical watchdog found paediatrician Sit Sou-chi guilty of professi...

Global institutional investors are pivoting away from basic market entry to scaling up their yuan operations, with offshore hubs such as Hong Kong emerging as the central infrastructure for that shift, a new survey showed. The survey, conducted by HS...

Hong Kong’s medical watchdog’s guilty verdict against a paediatrician over a case that left a boy permanently disabled more than 16 years ago has shown that its earlier argument for ending the long-delayed probe on fairness grounds was unfounded,...

Floodwater breached a reservoir in southern China and threatened others, as heavy rain pounded the region, leading to the evacuation of hundreds of people in the area. Chinese authorities urged caution and called for rescue and evacuation, with bad w...

Indonesia has deported 92 Chinese suspected scammers and barred them from the country for life in one of the biggest mass exercises in recent years. The Chinese nationals had been arrested in May in connection with an alleged online gaming and invest...

Seventy-four per cent of Primary Six pupils in Hong Kong were allocated their first-choice secondary school through the central allocation system, matching last year’s record – a result a school council representative attributed to parents making...

"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.