One person has been confirmed dead ⁠and 11 others remain missing after torrential rains triggered a mudslide early on Saturday in a town in ⁠Jiangxi province, local ⁠authorities said. Due ⁠to heavy rainfall brought by ⁠Typhoon ‌Saudel, t...

China is sending 815 athletes to the upcoming Asian Games. They will be competing in 38 sports and 369 events at the Aichi-Nagoya Games between September 19 and October 4. Led by 36 Olympic champions, the squad has an average age of 24. Over a qu...

Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel on Friday as emergency teams continued an operation to reach others believed to be trapped inside, officials said. The two men were rescued from the Trishuli 3A tunnel nine days aft...

Guangdong and Fujian braced for further torrential rain on Friday after severe downpours linked to Typhoon Saudel triggered flooding in urban and rural areas, swamping vehicles and causing a three-storey brick building to collapse. In ⁠Fujian's ci...

China and Russia should strengthen synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and the development of the Eurasian Economic Union, and further align China's Northeast revitalisation strategy with Russia's Far East development strategy, Vice Premier ...

Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau said on Saturday that more than 1,600 vials of unregistered vaccines had been seized during raids on 14 premises. However, none of the vials contained vaccines that were touted by a health centre on social media in ...

National security police have arrested three people on suspicion of "doing an act that has a seditious intention with a seditious intention". The operation on Thursday came as the trio – aged between 33 and 79 – allegedly shouted seditious slo...

An overhead electronic display at Hong Kong International Airport’s Terminal 2 was left dangling in mid-air after falling about seven metres on Saturday. No one was injured as the marine-themed display ended up eight metres above ground after fall...

Officials on Saturday said about 1,500 people registered to visit the Po Pin Chau trail in Sai Kung East Country Park on the first day of a real-name reservation trial. Under the scheme, up to 500 visitors are admitted during each two-hour slot, wit...

Secretary for Education Christine Choi on Saturday urged primary schools with falling enrolment numbers to plan ahead – advising them to consider merging with other schools or ceasing operations. According to this year’s Primary School Profiles...

More than 2,000 policymakers, educators and parents from around the world gathered in Hong Kong on Saturday for the inaugural Global Education Summit, which focused on regional talent development, artificial intelligence integration and changing acad...

More than three decades after Germany’s 1990 reunification, lasting east-west divisions may be thrown into stark relief at Sunday’s election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. The anti-immigration and Moscow-friendly Alternative for Germany (...

A driver has died after a Tesla collided with a seven-seater on Hong Kong’s Island Eastern Corridor. Police received a call at 10.37am on Saturday alerting them to a crash involving two private cars driving west along the corridor. The force said t...

The revelation that Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has amassed a staggering debt pile has sparked heated discussion in China, where property investors have suffered painful losses in recent years amid a deep market downturn. The 79-year-ol...

Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio posted bail at a Manila courthouse on Saturday, a day after an arrest warrant was issued over her alleged death threat against the country’s president. Duterte-Carpio was charged last month with “grav...

"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.